Gnophodes chelys

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Gnophodes chelys
Dusky evening brown (Gnophodes chelys) underside Nyamebe Bepo.jpg
in Ghana
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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 .

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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.