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Dixeia pigea
The Ant-heap Small White or Ant-heap White (Dixeia pigea) is a butterfly in the Pieridae family and is native to Africa.
This species is found from the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa through KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, Mpumalanga and Limpopo Province, to Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, DRC, Angola, and Cameroon.
The flight period is all year. They have been described as having a medium-fast, random flight pattern or as a rather weak, slow flying butterfly. They keep to open areas in riverine forest and thick bush[ or the edges of bush areas. Both sexes feed from flowers and are greatly attracted to flowering bushes exposed to the sun as seen in this photo.
Spotted on Sep 20, 2012
Submitted on Jul 26, 2013
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