Melanitis libya

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Violet-eyed evening brown
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Melanitis
Species:
M. libya
Binomial name
Melanitis libya
Distant, 1882 [1]
Synonyms
  • Melanitis libya nyassaeBartel, 1905
  • Melanitis libya f. pinheyivan Son, 1962

Melanitis libya, the violet-eyed evening brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, southern Sudan, Semuliki National Park, western Uganda [2] and north-western Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Shaba), Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, and eastern Zimbabwe. [3] The habitat consists of forests at altitudes between 600 and 900 meters.

Adults are on wing year round. There are wet- and dry-season forms.

The larvae possibly feed on Oxytenanthra abyssinica .

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References

  1. "Melanitis Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Forbes, S. (2018). The butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidia) of Semuliki National Park, western Uganda. Metamorphosis 29: 29–41.
  3. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Melanitini". Archived from the original on 2015-07-01. Retrieved 2012-05-30.