Abantis bicolor

Abantis bicolor, the bicoloured skipper,^[4] is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae and the subfamily Pyrginae. Described in 1864^[5] and endemic to South Africa, the bicoloured skipper is restricted to lowland forests from the Eastern Cape to the southern and northern coasts of KwaZulu-Natal.

Bicoloured skipper
Imago at Vernon Crookes Nature Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Abantis
Species:	A. bicolor
Binomial name
Abantis bicolor (Trimen, 1864)[2]
range[3]
Synonyms
Leucochitonea bicolor Trimen, 1864

The wingspan is 36–41 mm for males and 35–45 mm for females. There are two generations per year, with a peak in spring from October to November and a stronger peak in autumn from March to June.^[6]