Neita lotenia

Neita lotenia, the Loteni brown, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in South Africa on grassy mountain slopes on high altitude grasslands along the southern and south-eastern KwaZulu-Natal and Lesotho part of the Drakensberg.

Neita lotenia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Neita
Species:	N. lotenia
Binomial name
Neita lotenia (van Son, 1949)[1]
Synonyms
Melampias lotenia van Son, 1949

The wingspan is 45–48 mm for males and females. Adults are on wing from late November to January. There is one generation per year.^[2]

The larvae probably feed on Poaceae grasses.