Melampias

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Nymphalidae
Subfamilia: Satyrinae
Tribus: Satyrini
Subtribus: Ypthimina
Genus: Melampias
Species: M. huebneri – M. southeyi – M. vansoni
Name

Melampias Hübner, 1819

Type species: Papilio hyperbius Linnaeus, 1764 (preoccupied by Papilio hyperbius Linnaeus, 1763)
References

Pennington, K.M., 1953: New species and subspecies and other additions to the butterflies of Southern Africa, together with new records of little known species. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 16: 94–111.
Vári, L., 1971: South African Lepidoptera, 5: Revision of the genus Tarsocera Butler, 1898 and descriptions of new Satyrinae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 27 (10): 193–223.
Williams, M. C., 2008. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007).

Melampias is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae. Its one species, Melampias huebneri, the Boland brown, 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 (subspecies huebneri) or from August (subspecies 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 Northern Cape)

References

"Melampias Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN 978-1-86872-724-7.