''Stygionympha scotina'', the eastern hillside brown, is a
butterfly of the family
Nymphalidae. It is found in
South Africa on the seaward side of the mountains from
Cederberg
The Cederberg mountains are located near Clanwilliam, approximately 300 km north of Cape Town, South Africa at about . The mountain range is named after the endangered Clanwilliam cedar (''Widdringtonia wallichii''), which is a tree end ...
south to the
Cape Peninsula in
Western Cape and along the
Drakensberg mountains to
Grahamstown in
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is one of the provinces of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are East London and Gqeberha.
The second largest province in the country (at 168,966 km2) after Northern Cape, it was formed in ...
.
The
wingspan is 45–48 mm. Adults are on wing from September to March. There are probably multiple generations 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.
Subspecies
*''Stygionympha scotina scotina'' (Winterberge to the Drakensberg and Malutis. Also Witkoppe)
*''Stygionympha scotina coetzeri''
Henning & Henning, 1994 (along the Drakensberg in the Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces)
References
Butterflies described in 1977
Satyrini
Butterflies of Africa
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