Dingana
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Dingana is a butterfly
genus
from the subfamily Satyrinae
in the family Nymphalidae
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Butterfly
A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...
genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
from the subfamily Satyrinae
Satyrinae
Satyrinae, the satyrines or satyrids, commonly known as the Browns, is a subfamily of the Nymphalidae . They were formerly considered a distinct family, Satyridae. This group contains nearly half of the known diversity of brush-footed butterflies...
in the family Nymphalidae
Nymphalidae
The Nymphalidae is a family of about 5,000 species of butterflies which are distributed throughout most of the world. These are usually medium sized to large butterflies. Most species have a reduced pair of forelegs and many hold their colourful wings flat when resting. They are also called...
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Species
- Dingana alaedeusDingana alaedeusThe Wakkerstroom Widow is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is only known from high altitude grassland in the southern part of the Mpumalanga province and from KwaZulu-Natal....
Henning & Henning, 1984 - Dingana alticolaDingana alticolaThe Red-banded Widow is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is only known from high altitude grassland in the Steenkampsberg area in the Mpumalanga province....
Henning & Henning, 1996 - Dingana angustaDingana angustaThe Narrow-banded Widow is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in grasslands the eastern highlands from northern Swaziland to Mpumalanga and the Limpopo Province....
Henning & Henning, 1996 - Dingana bowkeriDingana bowkeriBowker’s Widow is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in South Africa, in the eastern Cape, Lesotho and Richmond and Cradock in the Cape province....
(Trimen, 1870) - Dingana claraDingana claraThe Wolkberg Widow is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is only known from the Wolkberg in the Limpopo Province.The wingspan is 60-65 mm for males and 56-62 mm for females. Adults are on wing from September to November...
(van Son, 1940) - Dingana clarkiDingana clarkiClark’s Widow is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in South Africa.The wingspan is 45-54 mm for males and 44-52 mm for females. Adults are on wing from November to February . There is one generation per yearThe larvae probably feed on various Poaceae species...
van Son, 1955 - Dingana dinganaDingana dinganaDingaan’s Widow is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in the KwaZulu-Natal midfields from the Drakensberg foothills to the Mooi River....
(Trimen, 1873) - Dingana fraternaDingana fraternaThe Stoffberg Widow is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is only known from one hillside to the south-west of the Stoffberg in the Mpumalanga province....
Henning & Henning, 1996 - Dingana jerinaeDingana jerinaeJerine’s Widow is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is only known from the upper southern scree slopes of the Kransberg in the Limpopo Province....
Henning & Henning, 1996 - Dingana kammanassiensisDingana kammanassiensisThe Kammanassie Widow is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is only known from the slopes of the Kammanassie massif near Uniondale in South Africa....
Henning & Henning, 1994