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Stygionympha wichgrafi

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Scientific name
  
Stygionympha wichgrafi

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Tribe
  
Satyrini

Rank
  
Subspecies

Stygionympha wichgrafi

Wichgraf's Brown (Stygionympha wichgrafi) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

The wingspan is 40–50 mm. Adults are on wing from August to March. There are probably multiple generations per year.

The larvae probably feed on Poaceae grasses.

Subspecies

  • Stygionympha wichgrafi wichgrafi (hills of the Orange Free State, Gauteng, Limpopo Province, North Western Province and Mpumalanga)
  • Stygionympha wichgrafi lannini van Son, 1966 (Zimbabwe, Mozambique)
  • Stygionympha wichgrafi williami Henning & Henning, 1996 (KwaZulu-Natal, the Orange Free State and from the mountains of Lesotho to the eastern Cape)
  • Stygionympha wichgrafi grisea Henning & Henning, 1996 (low altitude hinterland of the KwaZulu-Natal coast)

    • References

    Stygionympha wichgrafi Wikipedia
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