Bicyclus milyas
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Bicyclus milyas, the lesser rock bush brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, the 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 the Congo, Sudan, northern Uganda, south-western Ethiopia and Kenya.[2] The habitat consists of dry savanna.
The larvae feed on Imperata cylindrica and Pennisetum purpureum.
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- ^ "Bicyclus Kirby, 1871" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: File E – Nymphalidae - Subtribe Mycalesina". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2012-05-15.
Categories:
- Elymniini
- Butterflies described in 1864
- Butterflies of Africa
- Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson
- Bicyclus stubs