''Stygionympha dicksoni'', or Dickson's hillside brown,
[ is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in South Africa, in the south-western part of the Western Cape. It was also found at the Tygerberg, but is now extirpated from there.
The wingspan is 34–37 mm for males and 35–38 mm for females. Adults are on wing from September to October. There is one generation per year.]
The larvae 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, including ''Tribolium echinatum
''Tribolium'' is the scientific name of two genera of organisms and may refer to:
* ''Tribolium'' (beetle), a genus of beetles in the family Tenebrionidae
* ''Tribolium'' (plant), a genus of plants in the family Poaceae
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References
Butterflies described in 1938
Satyrini
Taxa named by Norman Denbigh Riley
Butterflies of Africa
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