''Dingana angusta'', the narrow-banded widow, is a
butterfly of the family
Nymphalidae. It is found in grasslands the eastern highlands from northern
Eswatini
Eswatini ( ; ss, eSwatini ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland ( ; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its no ...
to
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga () is a province of South Africa. The name means "East", or literally "The Place Where the Sun Rises" in the Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu languages. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, bordering Eswatini and Mozambique. It ...
and the
Limpopo Province.
Description
The
wingspan is 60–65 mm for males and 56–62 mm for females. Adults are on wing from September to November (with a peak in October). There is one generation per year.
Similar to ''
D. fraterna,'' this butterfly features white and orange postdiscal spots on the upperside of forewing.
Habitat and behavior
This butterfly is associated with
Lydenburg Montane Grassland (Gm 18).
The larvae feed on various
Poaceae
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...
species, including ''
Pennisetum clandestinum''.
References
Satyrini
Butterflies described in 1996
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