Melampias
| Melampias huebneri | |
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| Melampias huebneri depicted in Seitz Fauna Africana | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Satyrini |
| Genus: | Melampias Hübner, 1819 |
| Species: | M. huebneri |
| Binomial name | |
| Melampias huebneri (van Son, 1955)[1] | |
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The Boland Brown (Melampias huebneri) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in South Africa.
The wingspan is 35–38 mm for males and 33–35 mm for females. Adults are on wing from June (huebneri) or from August (steniptera) to October and sometimes November. There is one generation per year.[2]
The larvae probably feed on Poaceae. Larvae have been reared on Ehrharta erecta and Avena sativa.
Subspecies
- Melampias huebneri huebneri (western Cape from Clanwilliam south to the Cape Peninsula, east to the Gouritz River, at higher altitudes along the western edge of the Little Karoo from Oudtshoorn to Calitzdorp)
- Melampias huebneri steniptera Vári, 1971 (hills in Namaqualand from Springbok to area just south of Garies in the northern Cape)
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