About Eurytela dryope Cramer, 1779
This species has a wingspan of 40–50 mm in males and 45–55 mm in females. Males and females are very similar in appearance. The upperside of the wings is dark brown, with a wide, yellow-orange band covering the lower two-thirds of the forewing margin and the outer half of the hindwing. The underside of the wings is variegated in different shades of brown. Multiple subspecies have distinct ranges: E. d. angulata occurs in Ethiopia, East Africa, southern DRC, Angola, and along the eastern side of South Africa from Limpopo, the Magaliesberg, Mpumalanga, Eswatini, KwaZulu-Natal, down to Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape. A photographic record of this subspecies has been documented further south than Port St Johns during the South African Butterfly Conservation Assessment. E. d. brittoni is found in the south-west of the Arabian Peninsula. E. d. dryope ranges from Sierra Leone to Cameroon and northern DRC. E. d. lineata is found in Madagascar.
