Heteropsis perspicua, the eyed bush brown, swamp patroller or marsh patroller, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is native to eastern and southern Africa, but a western subspecies is present in Cameroon.
Range It is found in KwaZulu-Natal, Eswatini, Transvaal, Mozambique, from Zimbabwe to Kenya, in eastern Zaire and Tanzania."Heteropsis Westwood, 1850" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Description The wingspan is 38–43 mm for males and 42–48 mm for females. Adults are on wing year-round. The wet-season form is on wing in spring and summer and the dry-season form in autumn and winter.
Food plants The larvae feed on various Poaceae species, including Ehrharta erecta, Panicum maximum and Pennisetum clandestinum.
Subspecies Heteropsis perspicua perspicua (Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, northern Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini) Heteropsis perspicua camerounica (Kielland, 1994) (northern Cameroon)
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