Melanitis ansorgei

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Blue evening brown
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Melanitis
Species:
M. ansorgei
Binomial name
Melanitis ansorgei
Rothschild, 1904 [1]

Melanitis ansorgei, the blue evening brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Uganda (from the western part of the country to the Bwamba Valley). [2] The habitat consists of forests.

References

  1. "Melanitis Fabricius, 1807" 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.