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Gnophodes chelys

Synonyms: Gnophodes elucidata; Gnophodes harpa; Gnophodes iris; Gnophodes morpena; Gnophodes pythia

Wikipedia Abstract

The Dusky Evening Brown or Lobed Evening Brown (Gnophodes chelys) is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, western Kenya and western Tanzania. The habitat consists of dense forests. Both sexes are attracted to fermented bananas.
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Prey / Diet

Axonopus surinamensis (carrycillo)[1]
Cenchrus purpureus (elephant grass)[1]
Imperata cylindrica (alang-alang)[1]
Setaria megaphylla (bigleaf bristlegrass)[1]

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Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0