Life history observations of this herbivorous and myrmecophilous butterfly are described and illustrated here, together with notes on its mutualistic ant symbionts Crematogaster melanogaster Emery and host-plant Hermannia (Malvaceae) species. It was noted that the female oviposited on dead plant material or on the sandy substrate some distance from its host-plant. A tentative explanation given for this is that the eggs might otherwise suffer predation by ants nesting beneath the host-plant. A structural and colour similarity exists between the larvae of Argyraspodes Tite & Dickson and larvae of Trimenia Tite & Dickson, Aloeides Hübner and Erikssonia Trimen. This corresponds well with the monophyletic clade of Argyraspodes, Aloeides, Erikssonia and Trimenia as presented by Boyle et al. (2014).
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