Pyrrhiades anchises jucunda (Butler, 1881)

Ogilvie-Grant (1903) illustrated the caterpillar and pupa, which he found on Socotra on ‘a shrubby species of Ficus ’. This was probably a misidentification for the endemic Acridocarpus socotranus (Malpighiaceae), which when not flowering might be mistaken for a species of Ficus . This is assumed to be the origin of the incorrect records of Ficus sp. as the food plant (Cock 2010b). SCC has reared this subspecies from a plant that resembled Acridocarpus orientalis, but the plant was not identified and the early stages were not documented. We assume the food plant was A. socotranus, as A. orientalis is similar, but does not seem to be found on Socotra (Thulin 1993).