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The Common Meadow Blue (''Cupidopsis cissus'') is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It is found in most of Africa, south of the Sahara. The wingspan is 22–34 mm for males and 23–36 mm for females. Adults are on wing from September to April and May and sometimes in June and July in subtropical areas.〔Woodhall, S. Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 2005.〕 The larvae feed on the flowers of ''Eriosema'' and ''Vigna'' species. ==Subspecies== *''Cupidopsis cissus cissus'' (Senegal: Basse Casmance and south-east, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria: south and the Cross River loop, Kenya, northern Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland, Lesotho, Madagascar, South Africa: Limpopo Province, Mpumalanga, North West Province, Gauteng, Free State Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape Province, Western Cape Province, Northern Cape Province) *''Cupidopsis cissus extensa'' Libert, 2003 (Gabon, Congo, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cupidopsis cissus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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