Biology:Melanitis libya
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Short description: Species of butterfly
| Violet-eyed evening brown | |
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| In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Melanitis |
| Species: | M. libya
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| Binomial name | |
| Melanitis libya Distant, 1882[1]
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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.
References
- ↑ "Melanitis Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ↑ Forbes, S. (2018). The butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidia) of Semuliki National Park, western Uganda. Metamorphosis 29: 29–41.
- ↑ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Melanitini". http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/nymphalidae_melanitini.doc.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q6811398 entry
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