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Cacyreus marshalli (Geranium Bronze)

Wikipedia Abstract

The geranium bronze or brun des pélargoniums in French (Cacyreus marshalli) is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. The wingspan is 15–23 mm for males and 18–27 mm for females. Adults are on wing year round in warmer areas, but usually from August to May in South Africa. At higher altitudes adults are on wing in December and January. It is brown with a fine black edge interlaced with white and a very thin tail. The underside is grey-brown with dark bands. The caterpillar feeds on cultivated Pelargonium geraniums, as well as on species of the related Geranium genus.
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Attributes

Wing Span [1]  0.827 inches (.021 m)

Prey / Diet

Geranium pratense (meadow geranium)[2]
Geranium pyrenaicum (hedgerow geranium)[2]
Geranium robertianum (Robert geranium)[2]
Geranium sylvaticum (woodland geranium)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Martinou, A. F., Papachristos, D., & Milonas, P. G. (2011). Report of the geranium bronze butterfly, Cacyreus marshalli for mainland Greece, Hellenic Plant Protection Journal, 4(2), 31-34.
2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0