
Subspecies in India
(1) Melanitis zitenius zitenius (Herbst, 1796) – Himalayan Great Evening Brown
(2) Melanitis zitenius gokala Moore, [1858] – Sahyadri Great Evening Brown
(3) Melanitis zitenius kalinga Moore, 1883 – Kalinga Great Evening Brown
(4) Melanitis zitenius andamanica Evans, 1923 – Andaman Great Evening Brown This species is legally protected in India under Schedule II of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Melanitis zitenius gokala - Sahyadri Great Evening Brown
Melanitis zitenius zitenius - Himalayan Great Evening Brown

State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | ||||||||||||
Assam | 1 | ||||||||||||
Bihar | |||||||||||||
Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
Delhi | |||||||||||||
Goa | |||||||||||||
Gujarat | |||||||||||||
Haryana | 1 | ||||||||||||
Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
Karnataka | 1 | ||||||||||||
Kerala | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 12 | ||||||
Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Maharashtra | |||||||||||||
Manipur | |||||||||||||
Meghalaya | 3 | 5 | 3 | ||||||||||
Mizoram | |||||||||||||
Nagaland | |||||||||||||
Odisha | |||||||||||||
Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
Punjab | |||||||||||||
Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
Sikkim | 2 | ||||||||||||
Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
Tripura | |||||||||||||
Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
West Bengal | 7 | ||||||||||||
Total | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 14 | 12 |
Bambusa (Robinson et al. 2010), Bambusa bambos (Kunte 2006), Ochlandra (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000), Ochlandra scriptoria (Kalesh & Prakash 2015) (Poaceae).
Key Reference:
Nitin, R., V. C. Balakrishnan, P. V. Churi, S. Kalesh, S. Prakash, and K. Kunte. 2018. Larval host plants of the butterflies of the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 10:11495–11550.
For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.
Key Reference:
Nitin, R., V. C. Balakrishnan, P. V. Churi, S. Kalesh, S. Prakash, and K. Kunte. 2018. Larval host plants of the butterflies of the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 10:11495–11550.
For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.
Page citation
Anonymous 2022. Melanitis zitenius (Herbst, 1796) – Great Evening Brown. In Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.06. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/melanitis-zitenius, accessed 2022/08/20.