Pyrrhiades anchises jucunda (Butler, 1881)

Collins, Steve C., 2017, Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 12. New information and corrections, Zootaxa 4312 (3), pp. 471-496 : 473

Pyrrhiades anchises jucunda (Butler, 1881)

Ogilvie-Grant (1903) illustrated the caterpillar and pupa, which he found on Socotra on ‘a shrubby species of Ficus ’. This was probably a misidentification for the endemic Acridocarpus socotranus (Malpighiaceae) , which when not flowering might be mistaken for a species of Ficus . This is assumed to be the origin of the incorrect records of Ficus sp. as the food plant ( Cock 2010b). SCC has reared this subspecies from a plant that resembled Acridocarpus orientalis , but the plant was not identified and the early stages were not documented. We assume the food plant was A. socotranus , as A. orientalis is similar, but does not seem to be found on Socotra ( Thulin 1993).