Melanitis libya

Violet-eyed evening brown
In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Melanitis
Species:
M. libya
Binomial name
Melanitis libya
Distant, 1882
Synonyms
  • Melanitis libya nyassae Bartel, 1905
  • Melanitis libya f. pinheyi van Son, 1962

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 and north-western Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the 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 feed on Oxytenanthra abyssinica.

References

  1. ↑ "Melanitis Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ↑ Forbes, S. (2018). The butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidia) of Semuliki National Park, western Uganda. Metamorphosis 29: 29–41.
  3. ↑ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Melanitini". Archived from the original on 2015-07-01. Retrieved 2012-05-30.