''Sevenia morantii'', the obscure tree nymph or Morant's tree nymph, is a butterfly in the family

Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a re ...

found in southern

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

. Wingspan: 40–45 mm in males and 43–50 mm in females. Flight period year round but mainly between December and May. The larvae feed on '' Macaranga kilimandscharica'', '' Excoecaria bussei'' and ''

Sapium ''Sapium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is widespread across most of Latin America and the West Indies. Many Old World species were formerly included in the genus, but recent authors have redistributed all ...

'' species (including '' S. ellipticum'').

References

morantii Butterflies described in 1881 Butterflies of Africa Taxa named by Roland Trimen {{Biblidinae-stub