Rüppell's Dotted Border or Twin Dotted Border (Mylothris rueppellii) is a butterfly

Butterfly

A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...

 of the Pieridae

Pieridae

The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing approximately 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and Asia. Most pierid butterflies are white, yellow or orange in coloration, often with black spots...

 family. It is found in most of Africa

Africa

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, south of the Sahara

Sahara

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. The wingspan

Wingspan

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 is 48–55 mm (1.9–2.2 ) for males and 50 millimetre for females. Adults are on wing year round, with peaks in October and from late February to April in southern Africa. The larvae feed on various Loranthaceae

Loranthaceae

Loranthaceae is a family of flowering plants, which has been universally recognized by taxonomists. It consists of about 75 genera and 1,000 species of woody plants, many of them hemi-parasites, all of them except three having the mistletoe habit...

 species, including Loranthus

Loranthus

Loranthus is a genus of mostly parasitic plants that grow on the branches of woody trees. It belongs to the family Loranthaceae, the showy mistletoe family...

, Tapinanthus oleifolius and Tapinanthus rubromarginatus.

Subspecies

• Mylothris rueppellii rueppellii (highlands of Ethiopia)
• Mylothris rueppellii haemus (Trimen, 1879) (southern Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa)
• Mylothris rueppellii rhodesiana Riley, 1921 (northern Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, southern Zaire (Shaba), south-eastern Angola)
• Mylothris rueppellii septentrionalis Carpenter, 1928 (southern Sudan)
• Mylothris rueppellii tirikensis Neave, 1904 (highlands of Uganda, Kenya and northern Tanzania)
• Mylothris rueppellii josi Larsen, 1986