Stugeta bowkeri
| Stugeta bowkeri | |
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| Stugeta bowkeri c | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Stugeta |
| Species: | S. bowkeri |
| Binomial name | |
| Stugeta bowkeri (Trimen, 1864)[1] | |
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Bowker’s Sapphire, Bowker's Marbled Sapphire or Bowker's Tailed Blue (Stugeta bowkeri) is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It is found in most of southern Africa.
The wingspan is 26–32 mm for males and 29–41 mm for females. Adults are on wing from September to May, with peaks in October and March.[2]
Larvae of ssp. bowkeri and henningi feed on Viscum rotundifolium. Larvae of ssp. tearei have been recorded on Ximenia caffra and Ximenia americana, Viscum rotundifolium and Tapinanthus quinquangulus. Other recorded food plants include Loranthus species (including Loranthus elegans and Loranthus oleaefolius) and other Talinanthus and Ximenia species.
Subspecies
- Stugeta bowkeri bowkeri (Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia)
- Stugeta bowkeri albeza (Koçak, 1996) (Somalia)
- Stugeta bowkeri caerulea Stempffer (Somalia (Galkayu))
- Stugeta bowkeri ethiopica Stempffer & Bennett, 1958 (Ethiopia)
- Stugeta bowkeri henningi Dickson, 1980 (arid savannah of the Orange Free State and the North-West Province and the North Cape)
- Stugeta bowkeri kedonga van Someren, 1939 (the Great Rift Valley in Kenya)
- Stugeta bowkeri maria Suffert, 1904 (Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo: south-east to Lualaba and Shaba, Tanzania, northern Zambia)
- Stugeta bowkeri mombasae Butler, 1901 (coast of eastern Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania)
- Stugeta bowkeri nyanzana Wichgraf, 1911 (Lake Victoria, western Kenya)
- Stugeta bowkeri nyasana Talbot, 1935 (Malawi, south-eastern Tanzania)
- Stugeta bowkeri tearei Dickson, 1980 (southern Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, northern Namibia, Swaziland, South Africa: Limpopo Province, Mpumalanga, North West Province, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal)
Etymology
The name honours the lepidopterist James Henry Bowker.
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