Endangered
Chrysoritis rileyi
Chrysoritis rileyi
Chrysoritis rileyi is a gossamer-winged butterfly in the family Lycaenidae (order Lepidoptera), recorded as Endangered.
The gossamer-winged butterfly
The wingspan is 30–35 mm (1.2–1.4 in) for males and 32–38 mm (1.3–1.5 in) for females.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to South Africa, where it is known only from hill slopes and river flats at the east end of the Brandvlei Dam in the Western Cape.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
The larvae feed on Thesium and Zygophyllum species.
In crisis
Named moths and butterflies with a high threat category are often known from a small range and a thin series. Host-plant loss leaves little to recount.
Chrysoritis rileyi is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Chrysoritis rileyi, Wikidata item Q4961177. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
