Melanitis libya
| Melanitis libya | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Melanitis |
| Species: | M. libya |
| Binomial name | |
| Melanitis libya Distant, 1882[1] | |
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Melanitis libya, the Violet-eyed Evening Brown, 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.[2] 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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- ↑ Melanitis, Site of Markku Savela
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Melanitini