Melanitis libya information

Violet-eyed evening brown
	In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
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^[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.

Adults are on wing year round. There are wet- and dry-season forms.

The larvae possibly feed on Oxytenanthra abyssinica.

^ "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.

[funet-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.

[ATBUT-3] "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Melanitini". Archived from the original on 2015-07-01. Retrieved 2012-05-30.

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Violet-eyed evening brown

In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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