Ecology: Resident butterflies are known to fight visitors to the area at dusk. This hunting behavior is even provoked by pebbles thrown nearby. This species' flight is erratic.

Behavior: Adults feed mainly on nectar and occasionally visit rotting fruits.

The caterpillars: The larvae feed on a wide variety of grasses, including Rice, Oryza sativa, Bamboo, Andropogon, Rotboellia cochin chinensis, Brachiaria mutica, Cynodon, Imperata, and Millets, Oplismenus compositus, Panicum and Eleusine indica.

Distribution: It is found in Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia, extending to parts of Australia.

Genus: Melanitis are a 12 species is a genus of the subfamily Brown, Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae.

GBIF: Global Biodiversity Information Facility.World distribution:
Common Evening Brown, Melaitis leda (Linnaeus, 1758).

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Common Evening Brown, Melanitis leda (Linnaeus, 1758).

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The blue hour

In the evening when I sat by the river bank in the small village of Sauraha with a cocktail called "Rhino's Horn" and watched the sunset. Here there was fantastic wildlife, you could see the shepherds coming home with the goats and the water buffalo, and the elephants coming home from work in the forest, as well as tourist jeeps driving across the river back from the Jungle Safari. Over the river, sailors and swallows fly, just as they see the kingfisher stand on spinning wings and suddenly dive down for a fish.

Lars Andersen: A story of riverside wildlife in Chitwan National Park, Nepal. February 2000.