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Bicyclus milyas

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Bicyclus

Bicyclus milyas

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Bicyclus milyas, the Lesser Rock Bush Brown, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, northern Sierra Leone, northern Ivory Coast, northern Ghana, northern Togo, northern Benin, northern Nigeria, the northern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, northern Uganda, south-western Ethiopia and Kenya. The habitat consists of dry savanna.

The larvae feed on Imperata cylindrica and Pennisetum purpureum.

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Bicyclus milyas Wikipedia