Taxonomic rank
Species
Description
Aloeides penningtoni, the Pennington's copper, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in South Africa, where it is known from the northern Eastern Cape and the Drakensberg foothills to the KwaZulu-Natal midlands and the Ngoye and Enseleni forests.
The wingspan is 26–31 mm for males and 28–34 mm females. There are several generations in the warmer months, with adults on wing from August to June with peaks in November and February.
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Status
- COL status
- accepted
- Name status
- acceptable
- Nomenclatural code
- zoological
Specimens in the collection
Legacy synonyms
aloeides henningi
Non-butterfly
Off
Hybrid
Larval host plants GloBI
Observed associations from aggregated sources — unranked.