| Dark Evening Brown | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Melanitis |
| Species: | M. phedima |
| Binomial name | |
| Melanitis phedima (Cramer, 1780) |
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The Dark Evening Brown (Melanitis phedima) is a species of butterfly found flying at dusk. The flight of this species is erratic. They are found in South Asia.
Ischaemum semisagittatum and a variety of grasses of the genera Andropogon, Cymbopogon, Pennisetum, Setaria, Oplismenus compositus and Bambusa arundinacea.[1]