''Junonia natalica'', the Natal pansy or brown pansy, is a

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

of 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 have a red ...

. It is found in the

Afrotropical realm The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the island ...

. The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...

is 45–50 mm in males and 48–55 mm in females. The larvae feed on ''

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'' and ''

Phaulopsis imbricata ''Phaulopsis imbricata'' is a shrub native to South Africa. It is also known as Himalayan ruellia. Leaves are opposite, one larger than the other in each pair, usually asymmetrical at the base. ''Phaulopsis imbricata'' is a good fodder, the young ...

''.

Subspecies

*''Junonia natalica natalica'' (eastern and central Kenya, Tanzania, Pemba Island, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, northern Botswana, Namibia: Caprivi, Eswatini, South Africa: Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape) *''Junonia natalica angolensis'' (Rothschild, 1918) (Angola, south-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi)

References

natal NATAL or Natal may refer to: Places * Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, a city in Brazil * Natal, South Africa (disambiguation), a region in South Africa ** Natalia Republic, a former country (1839–1843) ** Colony of Natal, a former British colony ...

Butterflies of Africa Butterflies described in 1860 Taxa named by Baron Cajetan von Felder Taxa named by Rudolf Felder {{Nymphalinae-stub