Andronymus caesar

Andronymus caesar, the white dart or common dart, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in tropical Africa. The habitat consists of forests, moist savannah and riverine bush, from sea level to altitudes of 1,500 metres.^[2]

Andronymus caesar
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Andronymus
Species:	A. caesar
Binomial name
Andronymus caesar (Fabricius, 1793)[1]
Synonyms
Hesperia caesar Fabricius, 1793 Pamphila philander Hopffer, 1855 Andronymus hero philander Apaustus leander Plötz, 1879 Andronymus antonius Lindsey and Miller, 1965

The wingspan is 38–44 mm. Adults are on wing year-round, but mainly from November to April in South Africa.^[3]

The larvae feed on Macrolobium, Blighia (including Blighia unijugata), Deinbollia and Phialodiscus species.

Subspecies

• Andronymus caesar caesar (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo: except east and south)
• Andronymus caesar philander (Hopffer, 1855) (Democratic Republic of the Congo: east and south to Shaba, southern Sudan, Uganda, eastern Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa: Limpopo Province to Pafuri, Mpumalanga and the Blyde River Canyon)