The Beautiful Zebra Blue (Leptotes pulcher) is a butterfly

Butterfly

A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...

 of the Lycaenidae

Lycaenidae

The Lycaenidae are the second-largest family of butterflies, with about 6000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies...

 family. It is found in Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

 south of the Sahara

Sahara

The Sahara is the world's second largest desert, after Antarctica. At over , it covers most of Northern Africa, making it almost as large as Europe or the United States. The Sahara stretches from the Red Sea, including parts of the Mediterranean coasts, to the outskirts of the Atlantic Ocean...

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The wingspan

Wingspan

The wingspan of an airplane or a bird, is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777 has a wingspan of about ; and a Wandering Albatross caught in 1965 had a wingspan of , the official record for a living bird.The term wingspan, more technically extent, is...

 is 18-24 mm for males and 18-26 mm for females. Adults are on wing year round, with a peak from November to May in the north and probably only the warmer months in South Africa.

The larvae feed on Sesbania aegyptica and Sesbania sesban

Sesbania sesban

Sesbania sesbanSynonyms for the species name include:*Aeschynomene aegyptiaca Steud.*Aeschynomene elongata Salisb.*Aeschynomene sesban L.*Dolichos aeschynome-sesban Forssk.*Emerus*Sesbania punctata DC....

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