Heteropsis adolphei

Redeye Bushbrown
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Elymniini
Genus: Heteropsis
Species: H. adolphei
Binomial name
Heteropsis adolphei
(Guérin-Ménéville, 1843)[1]
Synonyms
  • Satyrus adolphei Guérin-Ménéville, 1843
  • Mycalesis adolphei (Guérin-Ménéville, 1843)
  • Mycalesis onatas Hewitson, 1864

The Redeye Bushbrown (Heteropsis adolphei) is a species of Satyrine butterfly found in South India. The species name is after Adolphe Delessert who collected the first specimens based on which the species was described.[2]

Description

Upperside dark umber-brown. Fore wing with a large, white-centred, fulvous-ringed black median ocellus and a white-centred preapical much smaller black spot. Hind wing uniform, a post-median series of from two to four white-centred fulvous-ringed black ocelli, sub-equal and smaller than the posterior ocellus on the fore wing- Underside: ground-colour similar, but irrorated with obscure transverse striae of a deeper brown; the terminal margins of both fore and hind wings very broadly paler; the dark basal portion of the wings sharply defined by a very dark brown line; a postmedian series on both wings of rather small white-centred fulvous-ringed black ocelli—two on the fore wing, a median and a preapical; seven, placed in a slight curve, on the hind wing. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark umber-brown, paler beneath. Male sex-mark of form 2, the patch of specialized scales on both fore and hind wing very small; the nacreous area surrounding the specialized scales on the underside of the fore wing very pale brown.[3]

Footnotes

  1. Heteropsis, Site of Markku Savela
  2. Delessert, Adolphe (1843). Souvenirs d´un voyage dans l´Inde exécuté de 1834 à 1839. Paris: Bétrune et Plon for Fortin, Masson et Cie & Langlois et Leclerq. p. 76.
  3. Bingham (1905)

References


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