Melanitis libya

Violet-eyed Evening Brown
Melanitis libya depicted in Seitz Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Melanitis
Species: M. libya
Binomial name
Melanitis libya
Distant, 1882[1]
Synonyms
  • Melanitis libya nyassae Bartel, 1905
  • Melanitis libya f. pinheyi van Son, 1962

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.[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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