Dark evening brown
The dark evening brown is a brown butterfly that flies at dusk, when other butterflies go to sleep. Its flight is zigzaggy and jumpy. Underneath, its wings have a row of little eye spots with white centres.
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Fun facts
Its back wings end in a little pointed tail, which is longer in the dry season.
The underside of its wings is brown and finely streaked, with tiny eye spots.
Butterflies from the dry season are darker and have longer wing points than those from the rainy season.
The female is paler than the male and has a big orange-yellow patch near her wing tips.
Most asked questions about Dark evening brown
?Why is it called the evening brown?
Because it is brown and flies in the evening, around dusk.
?What does the dark evening brown eat?
Its caterpillars eat grasses and bamboo.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Melanitis phedima
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Melanitis phedima (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Vinayaraj. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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