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Kaplans Skolly
Thestor kaplani
Kaplan's skolly or Kaplan's thestor (Thestor kaplani), is a species of butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is endemic to South Africa, where it is only known from fynbos on the slopes of the Riviersonderend Mountains above Greyton in the Western Cape.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 114079.