The mountain pride (Aeropetes tulbaghia) is a large satyrine butterfly in the family Nymphalidae, with a wingspan of 70–90 mm, occurring across the mountain ranges of South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, and eastern Zimbabwe. Adults are strongly attracted to red and orange flowers and serve as the sole documented pollinator of the orchids Disa uniflora and Disa ferruginea; they also forage for nectar on Kniphofia uvaria, Watsonia, Crassula coccinea, and related red-flowered Cape plants, making the species a principal butterfly pollinator of fynbos and montane grassland ecosystems. Larvae feed on grasses in the family Poaceae, including Ehrharta erecta and Hyparrhenia hirta. Gardeners in the Cape floristic region can attract this butterfly by growing red-flowered South African natives such as red-hot pokers (Kniphofia) in sunny, open positions.

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Ranges throughout the fynbos biome and montane grasslands from the Western Cape and Cape Peninsula north through the Great Escarpment and Drakensberg into KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mpumalanga, and eastern Zimbabwe; also present marginally in parts of the Nama Karoo; absent from lowland and arid zones.