''Stygionympha wichgrafi'', or Wichgraf's brown, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. 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 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 wichgrafi wichgrafi'' (hills of Free State, Gauteng, Limpopo, North West and Mpumalanga) *''Stygionympha wichgrafi lannini'' van Son, 1966 (Zimbabwe, Mozambique) *''Stygionympha wichgrafi williami'' Henning & Henning, 1996 (KwaZulu-Natal, 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

Butterflies described in 1955 Satyrini {{Satyrini-stub