''Pseudonympha swanepoeli'', or Swanepoel's brown, is a
butterfly of the family
Nymphalidae. It is found in
South Africa, it is only known from Houtbosdorp in
Limpopo and Whisky Spruit, the Verloren Vallei, Mount Sheba and
Pilgrim's Rest in
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga () is a province of South Africa. The name means "East", or literally "The Place Where the Sun Rises" in the Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu languages. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, bordering Eswatini and Mozambique. It ...
.
The
wingspan is 46–50 mm for males and 44–48 mm for females. Adults are on wing from February to March in the north and from November to February in the south. There is one generation per year.
The larvae probably feed on
Poaceae
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...
grasses or
Cyperaceae
The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, the largest being the "true sedges" genus ''Carex'' w ...
sedges.
References
Butterflies described in 1955
Pseudonympha
Endemic butterflies of South Africa
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