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Mycalesis milyas

Synonyms: Bicyclus milyas (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Bicyclus milyas, the Lesser Rock Bush Brown, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, northern Sierra Leone, northern Ivory Coast, northern Ghana, northern Togo, northern Benin, northern Nigeria, the northern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, northern Uganda, south-western Ethiopia and Kenya. The habitat consists of dry savanna. The larvae feed on Imperata cylindrica and Pennisetum purpureum.
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Prey / Diet

Cenchrus purpureus (elephant grass)[1]
Imperata cylindrica (alang-alang)[1]

External References

Citations

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