Melanitis ansorgei

Blue Evening Brown
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Melanitis
Species: M. ansorgei
Binomial name
Melanitis ansorgei
Rothschild, 1904[1]

The Blue Evening Brown (Melanitis ansorgei) is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Ivory Coast, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Uganda (from the western part of the country to the Bwamba Valley).[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Taxonomy

Unpublished DNA studies suggest the species may need to be placed in a new genus, since it appears to be more closely related to Gnophodes than to Melanitis.

References

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