Melanitis libya

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| name = Violet-eyed evening brown

| image = SeitzFaunaAfricanaXIIITaf26.jpg

| image_caption = In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana

| taxon = Melanitis libya

| authority = Distant, 1882[http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/satyrinae/melanitis/ "Melanitis Fabricius, 1807"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

| synonyms =

• Melanitis libya nyassae Bartel, 1905
• Melanitis libya f. pinheyi van Son, 1962

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Melanitis libya, the violet-eyed evening brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, southern Sudan, Semuliki National Park, western UgandaForbes, S. (2018). The butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidia) of Semuliki National Park, western Uganda. Metamorphosis 29: 29–41. and north-western Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Shaba), Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, and eastern Zimbabwe.{{Cite web |url=http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/nymphalidae_melanitini.doc |title=Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Melanitini |access-date=2012-05-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701085201/http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/nymphalidae_melanitini.doc |archive-date=2015-07-01 |url-status=dead }} The habitat consists of forests at altitudes between 600 and 900 meters.

Adults are on wing year round. There are wet- and dry-season forms.

The larvae possibly feed on Oxytenanthra abyssinica.