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A guide to Africa, it's trees and animals

A guide to the great plains of Africa, and the wildlife that flocks there every year to share it's rich bounties

Western Honey Bee 1
Apis mellifera
Painted Lady 2
Vanessa cardui
Blue Pansy 3
Junonia orithya
Danaid Eggfly 4
Hypolimnas misippus
Common Evening Brown 5
Melanitis leda
Sameodes cancellalis 6
Plain Tiger Butterfly 7
Danaus chrysippus
Guineafowl 8
Hamanumida daedalus
Yellow Pansy 9
Junonia hierta
Dark blue pansy 10
Junonia oenone
Citrus Swallowtail 11
Papilio demodocus
Southern Banded Groundling 12
Brachythemis leucosticta
Little Scarlet 13
Crocothemis sanguinolenta
Barbet Percher 14
Diplacodes luminans
African Moon Moth 15
Argema mimosae
Garden Commodore 10
Precis archesia
Pioneer White 16
Belenois aurota
Crimson-speckled Flunkey 17
Utetheisa pulchella
Triangles 18
Trigonodes hyppasia
Cabbage Tree Emperor Moth 19
Bunaea alcinoe
Golden Pansy 20
Junonia chorimene
Small Orange Acraea 16
Acraea serena
Sooty Blue 21
Zizeeria knysna
Green-marbled Skipper 22
Gomalia elma
Sundowner moth 12
Sphingomorpha chlorea
Zebra Acacia Katydid 23
Terpnistria zebrata
Vine-leaf Vagrant 24
Eronia cleodora
African Caper 25
Belenois creona
Colotis calais 26
Laterite Matron 27
Metarctia lateritia
Spotted Joker 28
Byblia ilithyia
Brown‐spotted Locust 29
Cyrtacanthacris tatarica
Natal Babul Blue 25
Azanus natalensis
Black-Bordered Babul Blue 30
Azanus moriqua
Coptops aedificator 31
Delta fenestrale 32
Thaumetopoea apologetica
Cavorting Emperor 8
Usta terpsichore
Black Driver Ant 33
Dorylus nigricans
Giant Devil's Flower Mantis 34
Idolomantis diabolica
Xystrocera dispar 35
Angular Jigsaw 36
Caranilla angularis
Titoceres jaspideus 35
Oncopeltus famelicus 37
Temnora natalis 38
Heliocopris anadematus 39
Heliocopris myrmidon 40

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