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Colotis ione
Medium sized butterfly (45-50mm), highly variable in colour. Males have purple tips to their upper forewings; females may have orange, yellow, brown or black. There are separate wet-season forms and dry-season forms for both sexes also.
Open woodland and savannah.
This is a female, wet-season form ione. Spotted in the Hluhluwe Umfolozi Game Reserve.
Spotted on Dec 17, 2009
Submitted on May 11, 2013
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