Stygionympha

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Stygionympha
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Stygionympha wichgrafi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Satyrinae
Tribe: Satyrini
Genus: Stygionympha
van Son, 1955
Diversity
Nine species

Stygionympha is a butterfly genus from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae.

Species


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Stygionympha scotina, the eastern hillside brown, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in South Africa on the seaward side of the mountains from Cederberg south to the Cape Peninsula in Western Cape and along the Drakensberg mountains to Grahamstown in Eastern Cape.

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