''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 ha ...

found in southern

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...

. 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 ''Macaranga'' is a large genus of Old World tropical trees of the family Euphorbiaceae and the only genus in the subtribe Macaranginae (tribe Acalypheae). Native to Africa, Australasia, Asia and various islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, ...

'', '' 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 the O ...

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

References

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