Chrysoritis lycegenes, the Mooi River opal, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.

It is found in South Africa, where it is known from northern KwaZulu-Natal to Mpumalanga, along the Drakensberg escarpment to Mariepskop in Limpopo province.

Adults are on wing from September to October and from December to January.

[3] The larvae feed on Diospyros austro-africana, Diospyros lycioides, Myrsine africa, Rhus species and Chrysanthemoides monilifera.

It is named after the Mooi River in KwaZulu-Natal.