Gnophodes chelys

Gnophodes chelys, the dusky evening brown or lobed evening brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya and western Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of dense forests.

Gnophodes chelys
In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana as chelys
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nymphalidae
Genus:
Gnophodes
Species:
G. chelys
Binomial name
Gnophodes chelys
(Fabricius, 1793)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio chelys Fabricius, 1793
  • Papilio pythia Fabricius, 1793
  • Gnophodes morpena Westwood, 1851
  • Melanitis harpa Karsch, 1893
  • Gnophodes chelys f. iris Bartel, 1905
  • Gnophodes minchini Heron, 1909
  • Gnophodes minchini f. magniplaga Heron, 1909
  • Gnophodes chelys var. elucidata Grünberg, 1910

Both sexes are attracted to fermented bananas.

The larvae feed on Setaria (including S. barbatus and S. megaphylla) and Pennisetum species (including P. purpureum), as well as Olyra latifolia, Rottboellia exaltata, Imperata cylindrica, and Streprogyna crinita.

References
  1. "Gnophodes Doubleday, [1849]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Melanitini". Archived from the original on 2015-07-01. Retrieved 2012-05-30.


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