Thestor dicksoni

Thestor dicksoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Thestor
Species:	T. dicksoni
Binomial name
	Thestor dicksoni; Riley, 1954[1]
Synonyms
	Thestor malagas Dickson & Wykeham, 1994;

Thestor dicksoni, the Dickson's skolly, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in South Africa.

The wingspan is 34-37.5 mm for males and 43–45 mm for females. Adults are on wing from December to April. There is one generation per year.[2]

Subspecies

Thestor dicksoni dicksoni (montane fynbos in the Dasklip Pass near Porterville to the Roodezandsberg near the Tulbagh Kloof)
Thestor dicksoni malagas Dickson & Wykeham, 1994 (along the Atlantic coast and on the Langebaan peninsula)
Thestor dicksoni warreni Ball, 1994 (arid strandveld Karoo near Graafwater, between Clanwilliam and Lambertsbaai)

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gollark: ++remind 7w redeploy hypercubical tesseract

gollark: ++supported_langs objective

gollark: Neither does TIO apparently.

gollark: ++exec -L c-gcc```c#include <stdio.h>int main(int apiohazard, char* *apioform) { printf("out: %s", (char*)apioform); return 0;}```

Thestor at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN 978-1-86872-724-7.

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