Dira oxylus, the Pondoland widow, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.

It is found in from the lower Drakensberg foothills from the eastern Cape to KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

Adults are on wing from late December to early March.

There is one generation per year[2] The larvae feed on various Poaceae species, including Ehrharta erecta.

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