Tarucus sybaris

Dotted blue
	Tarucus sybaris subsp. sybaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Tarucus
Species:	T. sybaris
Binomial name
	Tarucus sybaris; (Hopffer, 1855)
Synonyms
	Lycaena sybaris Hopffer, 1855; Cupido linearis Aurivillius, 1925; Tarucus sybaris f. vreuricki Dufrane, 1954;

Tarucus sybaris, the dotted blue, is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It is found in southern Africa.

The wingspan is 22–26 mm for males and 20–27 mm for females. Adults are on wing year-round, with a peak from November to March.^[2]

The larvae feed on Ziziphus species, including Z. zeyheriana and Z. mucronata.

Subspecies

Tarucus sybaris subsp. sybaris – South Africa (East Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, eastern Orange Free State, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo Province and North West Province), Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi
Tarucus sybaris subsp. linearis (Aurivillius, 1924) – North Cape, western Orange Free State, Namibia, Angola, Botswana

^ Tarucus at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
^ Woodhall, S. Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 2005.

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