Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Melanitis | |
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Similar Melanitis, Fresna nyassae, Axiocerses amanga, Tagiades flesus, Tirumala petiverana | ||
The violet-eyed evening brown (Melanitis libya) is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, southern Sudan, north-western Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Shaba), Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, and eastern Zimbabwe. 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
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