''Afrodryas leda'', the autumn leaf vagrant or orange-and-lemon, is a

butterfly Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...

of the family

Pieridae The Pieridae are a large family (biology), family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from Afrotropical realm, tropical Africa and Indomalayan realm, tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern ...

. It is found throughout Africa.''Eronia''
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wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ...

is 50–55 mm for males and 48–56 mm for females. Adults are on the wing year-round in warmer areas with peaks in late summer and autumn. The larvae feed on ''

Capparis tomentosa ''Capparis tomentosa'', the woolly caper bushPooley, E. (1993). ''The Complete Field Guide to Trees of Natal, Zululand and Transkei''. . or African caper, is a plant in the family Capparaceae and is native to Africa. Distribution Found in bush ...

''.

References

Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 15
as ''cygnophila''
Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 21
Butterflies described in 1847 Teracolini Butterflies of Africa Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Boisduval {{Pieridae-stub