Gnophodes chelys

Gnophodes chelys
This image is of Haydonia pythia, previously described as Gnophodes chelys by Larsen
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Gnophodes
Species:	G. chelys
Binomial name
Gnophodes chelys (Fabricius, 1793) [1]
Synonyms
Papilio chelysFabricius, 1793 Papilio pythiaFabricius, 1793 Gnophodes morpenaWestwood, 1851 Melanitis harpaKarsch, 1893 Gnophodes chelys f. irisBartel, 1905 Gnophodes minchiniHeron, 1909 Gnophodes minchini f. magniplagaHeron, 1909 Gnophodes chelys var. elucidataGrünberg, 1910

Gnophodes chelys, the dusky evening brown or lobed evening brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya and western Tanzania. ^[2] The habitat consists of dense forests.

Both sexes are attracted to fermented bananas.

The larvae feed on Setaria (including S. barbatus and S. megaphylla ) and Pennisetum species (including P. purpureum ), as well as Olyra latifolia , Rottboellia exaltata , Imperata cylindrica , and Streprogyna crinita .

References

1. "Gnophodes Doubleday, [1849]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Melanitini". Archived from the original on 2015-07-01. Retrieved 2012-05-30.

• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 26