Melanitis libya
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[2] and north-western Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Shaba), Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, and eastern Zimbabwe.[3] The habitat consists of forests at altitudes between 600 and 900 meters.
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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 Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Forbes, S. (2018). The butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidia) of Semuliki National Park, western Uganda. Metamorphosis 29: 29–41.
- "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Melanitini". Archived from the original on 2015-07-01. Retrieved 2012-05-30.
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