Aeropetes
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Aeropetes is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae. Its only species, Aeropetes tulbaghia, is commonly known as the Table Mountain beauty or mountain pride. It is native to southern Africa, where it occurs in South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini and Zimbabwe.[2]
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Mountain pride | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Subfamily: | Satyrinae |
Tribe: | Melanitini (?) |
Genus: | Aeropetes Billberg, 1820 |
Species: | A. tulbaghia |
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Aeropetes tulbaghia (Linnaeus, 1764) | |
Range across South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini (also in eastern Zimbabwe)
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