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METAMORPHOSIS LEPIDOPTERISTS’ SOCIETY OF AFRICA www.metamorphosis.org.za VOLUME 24 ● DECEMBER 2013 ISSN 1018-6490 (PRINT) 2307-5031 (ONLINE) LEPIDOPTERISTS’ SOCIETY OF AFRICA METAMORPHOSIS LEPIDOPTERISTS’ SOCIETY OF AFRICA www.metamorphosis.org.za VOLUME 24 ● DECEMBER 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS Pages EDITORIAL Edge, David A. i PRESIDENT’S COMMENTS Woodhall, Steve E. ii OBITUARY Johan (Scottie) Buys Edge, David A. and Garvie, Owen G. v SPONSOR AND HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS vii ARTICLES Description of two new species of African Lycaenidae in the collection of the African Butterfly Research Institute Libert, Michel and Collins, Steve C. 3–6 Published online on 06.06.2013 A study of the genitalia of Precis actia (Distant), 1880 and Precis pelarga (Fabricius), 1775 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) Richardson, Ian D. 7–11 Published online on 14.06.2013 A new species in the Afrotropical skipper genus Artitropa from São Tomé and Principe (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae (incertae sedis)) Collins, Steve C. and Larsen, Torben B. 20–24 A review of d’Abrera’s Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region – Part III (second edition), 2009 – Part 1 Collins, Steve C., Congdon, T. Colin E., Henning, Graham. A., Larsen, Torben B. and Williams, Mark. C. 25–34 Published online on 27.11.2013 A new species of Cassionympha Van Son (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) from the southern coast of the Western Cape, with a note on its possible evolutionary origins Pringle, Ernest L. 38–43 Published online on 16.12.2013 A review of d’Abrera’s Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region – Part III (second edition), 2009 – Part 2 Collins, Steve C., Congdon, T. Colin E., Henning, Graham A., Larsen, Torben B. and Williams, Mark. C. 44–56 Published online on 18.12.2013 Publications on Afrotropical Lepidoptera during 2013 Williams, Mark C. 57–68 Published online on 31.12.2013 New larval host plant records for butterflies of the Kruger National Park and its surrounds, Limpopo & Mpumalanga, South Africa Otto, Herbert H.H., Gardiner, Alan J., and Sharp, Ian C. 69–74 Published online on 31.12.2013 NOTES Observations on the life history of the Blotched Leopard, Lachnoptera ayresii Trimen, 1879 (Nymphalidae: Heliconiinae) Woodhall, Stephen E. 1–2 Published online on 17.05.2013 Observations on the larval host plant and life history of the Dwarf Blue, Oraidium barberae Trimen, 1868 (Lycaenidae: Polyommatinae) Cockburn, Kevin N. A. 12–14 Published online on 21.06.2013 Observations on the life history of the Southern Pied Woolly Legs, Lachnocnema laches Fabricius, 1793 (Lycaenidae: Miletinae) in the Mpumalanga lowveld Sharp, Ian C. and Sharp, Tertia 18–19 Published on line 08.09.2013 The behaviour and life history of Anthene crawshayi juanitae Henning & Henning, 1993 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Coetzer, André J. and Gardiner, Alan J. 35–37 Published online on 12.12.2013 BOOK REVIEWS Conservation assessment of butterflies of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland: Red List and Atlas - Mecenero et al. (eds) Willis, Christopher K. 15–17 Published online on 01.08.2013 Lepidoptera and conservation – Tim R. New Edge, David. A. 75 Published on line on 31.12.2013 COVER IMAGES First row: Lachnoptera ayresii adult female upperside; final instar larva S.E. Woodhall Second row: Lachnocnema laches larva feeding on tettigometrid nymph; adult male freshly emerged I.C. Sharp Third row: Anthene crawshayi juanitae adult female; final instar larva A.J. Coetzer Fourth row: Artitropa species T.B. Larsen; Lepidochrysops glauca glauca ovipositing on Orthosiphon thymiflorus H.H.H. Otto ISSN 1018-6490 (PRINT) 2307-5031 (ONLINE) METAMORPHOSIS ISSN 1018–6490 (PRINT) LEPIDOPTERISTS’ SOCIETY OF AFRICA ISSN 2307–5031 (ONLINE) PUBLISHED BY: The Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa P O Box 2586 Knysna 6570 South Africa EDITOR: David A. Edge, North-West University [email protected] EDITORIAL PANEL: Konrad Fiedler, University of Vienna [email protected] Douglas M. Kroon [email protected] Martin Krüger, Ditsong Museum of Natural History [email protected] Mervyn Mansell, University of Pretoria [email protected] Hermann S. Staude [email protected] Mark C. Williams, University of Pretoria [email protected] COMMUNICATIONS Manuscripts and correspondence should be sent to the editor, David Edge ([email protected]). Instructions to authors are given on the back inside cover of this publication or online at www.metamorphosis.org.za. PUBLICATION Articles are published on our website as soon as the review and editing process is complete. An annual print version is sent to all members of the Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa and to interested libraries and museums. PAST ISSUES Issues of Metamorphosis dating back to 1983 can be downloaded as PDFs from our website. THE LEPIDOPTERISTS’ SOCIETY OF AFRICA www.lepsoc.org.za The society is a non-profit organisation registered as a Section 21 company under the South African Companies Act, with registered offices at P O Box 35772, Northcliff 2115, South Africa. 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    Volume 24: 7–11 METAMORPHOSIS ISSN 1018–6490 (PRINT) LEPIDOPTERISTS’ SOCIETY OF AFRICA ISSN 2307–5031 (ONLINE) A study of the genitalia of Precis actia (Distant), 1880 and Precis pelarga (Fabricius), 1775 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) Published online: 14 June 2013 Ian D. Richardson Gibertou, 82390 Durfort Lacapelette, France. E-mail : [email protected] Copyright © Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa Abstract: The diagnostic character based on the position of a dot in a light coloured patch on the forewing is quantified for each male specimen in short series of Precis actia and Precis pelarga from Zambia. A study of the male genitalia reveals an additional diagnostic character, which correlates well with the quantified dot-position character. This additional character is proposed as a more definitive means of separating the two very similar species. Key words: Afrotropical Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Nymphalinae, Precis, actia, pelarga, male genitalia Citation: Richardson, I.D. (2013). A study of the genitalia of Precis actia (Distant), 1880 and Precis pelarga (Fabricius), 1775 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Metamorphosis 24: 7–11. INTRODUCTION published work on the genitalia of these two species. The distinction between Precis actia (Distant), This prompted a study of the genitalia of the nine 1880 and Precis pelarga (Fabricius), 1775 is male specimens, covering both species, in the given by Kielland (1990) as follows: “[P. actia] author’s collection. differs from P. pelarga in the squarish post-discal patch in space 3 with the black dot placed in the MATERIAL AND METHODS centre of it (in pelarga the black dot is placed closer to the distal border)”. Dot Position This key to identifying the two species is Fig.