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is 55–65 mm for males and 63–70 mm for females. Adults are on the wing year-round in warmer areas with peaks
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571:Woodhall, Steve (2005).
453:Sphedamnocarpus pruriens
425:Description and habits
194:Rhopalocampta valmaran
793:Butterflies of Africa
637:Coeliades pisistratus
607:Coeliades pisistratus
208:Coeliades pisistratus
160:Coeliades pisistratus
459:Triaspis macropteron
186:Hesperia pisistratus
16:Species of butterfly
517:at Markku Savela's
142:C. pisistratus
537:Williams, Mark C.
225:sub-Saharan Africa
24:Two-pip policeman
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778:Coeliadinae
698:iNaturalist
631:Wikispecies
465:Stephanotis
446:Food plants
365:, northern
327:South Sudan
275:Ivory Coast
246:C. forestan
221:Hesperiidae
118:Hesperiidae
108:Lepidoptera
772:Categories
500:References
475:Indigofera
415:North West
407:Free State
395:Mpumalanga
389:, and the
379:Mozambique
88:Arthropoda
729:161264000
514:Coeliades
496:species.
493:Combretum
481:Marsdenia
217:butterfly
168:Fabricius
136:Species:
129:Coeliades
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68:Eukaryota
737:LepIndex
716:11432162
622:Q5140628
616:Wikidata
436:eclosion
431:wingspan
383:Eswatini
375:Zimbabwe
371:Botswana
355:Tanzania
343:Ethiopia
299:Cameroon
177:Synonyms
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78:Animalia
64:Domain:
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440:instars
403:Gauteng
399:Limpopo
387:Lesotho
367:Namibia
347:Somalia
339:Burundi
295:Nigeria
271:Liberia
237:savanna
231:Habitat
215:, is a
170:, 1793)
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104:Order:
98:Insecta
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470:Dregea
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359:Malawi
335:Rwanda
331:Uganda
319:Angola
263:Guinea
211:, the
711:IRMNG
351:Kenya
311:Congo
307:Gabon
291:Benin
283:Ghana
253:Range
241:mesic
38:Male
750:NCBI
724:IUCN
685:GBIF
664:WQBB
646:BOLD
577:ISBN
555:2016
490:and
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287:Togo
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