''Sevenia rosa'', or Rosa's tree nymph, is a butterfly in 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 ...

found in

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...

. Wingspan: 50–60 mm in males and 52–62 mm in females. Flight period is recorded as October to January but might be year round. Larval food is '' Sapium ellipticum'', '' Maprounes africana'' and '' Pseudolachnostylis'' species.

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rosa Rosa or De Rosa may refer to: People *Rosa (given name) * Rosa (surname) * Santa Rosa (female given name from Latin-a latinized variant of Rose) Places * 223 Rosa, an asteroid *Rosa, Alabama, a town, United States * Rosa, Germany, in Thuringia, ...

Butterflies described in 1877 Butterflies of Africa Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson {{Biblidinae-stub