Conservation of the Roodepoort Copper Butterfly

[Mike Quinn]

The Conservation of the Roodepoort Copper Butterfly and Black Eagles at
Ruimsig in the city of Roodepoort, Gauteng, South Africa


Web Page by Adelaar Highschool for CyberFair 96
http://cyberfair.gsn.org/adelaar/anchor.htm

Ruimsig Entomological Reserve
http://cyberfair.gsn.org/adelaar/entres.htm

Aloeides dentatis (Swierstra)
http://cyberfair.gsn.org/adelaar/alovlerk.htm

A small twelve hectare reserve was established for the protection of the
rare butterfly Aloeides dentatis (Swierstra) (Lycaenidae). This is one of
the last known
colonies of this butterfly. The butterfly is restricted to this locality
since it requires both the presence of its host ant, an undescribed
Acantholepis species and its larval
foodplant, Hermannia depressa (Sterculiaceae) that is found here.

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Mike Quinn
Invertebrate Biologist
Wildlife Diversity Branch
Texas Parks & Wildlife
3000 IH 35 South, Suite 100, Austin, TX  78704
Ph./Fax. 512/912-7059 -7058
mike.quinn at tpwd.state.tx.us
Texas Monarch Watch Hotline: 800/468-9719



 
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