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Donzel's Silver Lines
 Peter Rowlings |
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Middle Atlas, Morocco, May 1998 |
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| This is an attractive insect. It flies
very low over usually barren ground but appears to be attracted to
flowers. The photo above shows one of 2 or 3 that we found taking nectar
from flowers at a drainage ditch. Elsewhere we found them many miles from
any open water on very dry rocky slopes with just a sprinkling of sparse
grasses and few flowers. It is superficially similar to the Allard's Silver Lines, C. allardi, with which it just might fly in certain places. Refer to that species for a brief description of the distinguishing features. Like that species, zohra only flies in N Africa in Morocco and Algeria where it is local in hills and mountains. |