Stygionympha wichgrafi

Stygionympha wichgrafi, or Wichgraf's brown, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

Stygionympha wichgrafi
Stygionympha wichgrafi williami
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Satyrinae
Tribe:	Satyrini
Genus:	Stygionympha
Species:	S. wichgrafi
Binomial name
Stygionympha wichgrafi van Son, 1955[1]
Synonyms
Pseudonympha vigilans var. johannesburgensis Wichgraf, 1911

The wingspan is 40–50 mm. Adults are on wing from August to March. There are probably multiple generations per year.^[2]

The larvae probably feed on Poaceae grasses.

Stygionympha wichgrafi williami

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)