Abantis paradisea — The Life Data

Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Hesperiidae/Abantis

At a glance

Occurrence records254

Data sources7

Biological traits0

DNA specimens2

eDNA detections0

Sources7 archives

Databases and archives Abantis paradisea's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility254 records↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics2 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page3 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Occurrence & distributionGBIF254 records

DNA & barcodingBOLD2 specimens

01Narrative

Abantis paradisea, the paradise skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in KwaZulu-Natal, Zululand, Transvaal, Eswatini, Zimbabwe and from Botswana to Somalia. The wingspan is 40–45 mm for males and 43–55 mm for females. Adults are on wing year-round with peaks in autumn from April to June and in spring from August to November. The larvae feed on Hibiscus tiliaceus, Cola natalensis, Annona species, Bridelia cathartica, Bridelia micrantha, Pseudolachnostylis maprouneifolia, Lonchocarpus capassa and Lecaniodiscus fraxinifolius.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

05DNA & barcoding2 specimens

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Abantis paradisea has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens2

Countries1

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type254 records

Wild obs. + sensor107

Museum / vouchered147

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO508 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy88% within 1 km

≤100 m 40≤1 km 9≤10 km 5>10 km 2

56 georeferenced · 51 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor107

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy0% within 1 km

>10 km 1

1 georeferenced · 146 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence147

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions3 of 13 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Teylers Museumlocation not on record	62
National Museums of Kenyalocation not on record	29
Durban Natural Science Museumlocation not on record	20
African Butterfly Research Institutelocation not on record	9
Sydney, AU	7
Iziko South African Museumlocation not on record	6
KwaZulu-Natal Museumlocation not on record	4
Cape Town, ZA	3
Northern Michigan Universitylocation not on record	2
NTNU University Museum, Department of Natural Historylocation not on record	2
Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record	1
Cambridge, US	1
East London Museumlocation not on record	1

13 institutions · 147 of 147 vouchered records shown