Kaplan's thestor

Kaplan's skolly or Kaplan's thestor (Thestor kaplani), is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is endemic to South Africa, where it is only known from fynbos on the slopes of the Riviersonderend Mountains above Greyton in the Western Cape.

Kaplan's thestor
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Thestor
Species:	T. kaplani
Binomial name
Thestor kaplani Dickson & Stephen, 1971

The wingspan is 26–28 mm for males and 27–29 mm for females. Adults are on wing from December to January. There is one generation per year.^[2]