''Heteropsis nigrescens'' is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Afrotropical Butterflies: File E – Nymphalidae - Subtribe Mycalesina
/ref> ''H. nigrescens'' Baker is evidently nearly allied to the preceding species ''Heteropsis peitho''">Heteropsis_peitho.html" ;"title="''Heteropsis peitho">''Heteropsis peitho''and is described as follows:Male : Both wings deep velvety blackish brown, with small ocellated spots. Prim aries [anterior wings] with two small subapical intense black spots minutely but distinctly pupilled with white and having red irides which touch each other; a larger similar spot near the termen between veins 2 and 3; secondaries osterior wings with a similar spot as in the primaries between veins 2 and 3, near the termen, with occasionally a trace of another similar one above it.Underside: both wings tawny ochreous, closely suffused with fine, deep, rusty, vein-like, wavy lines, terminating to a large extent in the postmedian area by a prominent deep rusty line through both wings with a broad greyish subterminal area in which the white-pupilled black spots show through, the upper two having a single ochreous iris, the lower one with a very broad ochreous iris with a dark outer edging: secondaries with a rusty median transverse line and a curved series of seven or eight ocellated spots as in the forewings. Expanse 46 mm. Hab. Makala, May and June 1906.Aurivillius, .O.. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. ''Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde'' Band 13: Abt. 2, ''Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter'', 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart.

Subspecies

*''Heteropsis nigrescens nigrescens'' (Democratic Republic of the Congo) *''Heteropsis nigrescens striata'' (Libert, 2006) (Cameroon)

References

Elymniini Butterflies described in 1908 Butterflies of Africa Taxa named by George Thomas Bethune-Baker {{Heteropsis-stub