Mycalesis anaxias

White-bar Bushbrown
Wet-season form
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
(unranked): Rhopalocera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Elymniini
Species: M. anaxias
Binomial name
Mycalesis anaxias
(W. H. Evans, 1920)

The White-bar Bushbrown (Mycalesis anaxias) is a species of satyrid butterfly found in South and Southeast Asia. In South Asia, it inhabits Sikkim, eastwards through the hill-ranges to Assam, Cachar, Myanmar and Tenasserim. Also in Southern India, in the Nilgiris and Travancore.

Description

See glossary of Lepidopteran terms for terminology used
Dry-season form

Wet-season form: male and female: Upperside dull van dyke-brown, paler in the female; subterminal and terminal fine lines on both fore and hind wings fulvescent: cilia brown. Fore wing with an oblique white preapical short band not quite reaching either the costa or the termen. Underside : fore wing: basal area up to the white band, and in a transverse line from lower end of band to dorsum, blackish brown ; terminal margin beyond broadly paler brown; a white-centred fulvous-ringed black ocellus in interspace 2, and two preapical, smaller similar ocelli, followed by a very sinuous subterminal and a straighter terminal dark brown line. Hind wing: basal two-thirds blackish brown, terminal border broadly paler, bearing normally seven ocelli similar to those on the fore wing, and subterminal and terminal dark brown lines.[1]

Dry-season form.— Upperside as in the wet-season form. Underside differs in the ocelli being indistinct or absent, and the subterminal and terminal dark lines on both fore and hind wing absent or very faint; the terminal margins are broadly rufescent brown, fading inwardly into lilacine, the oblique white bar on the fore wing outwardly diffuse- Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark brown; the antennae ochraceous towards apex.[1]

white barred bushbrown at coorg

Wingspan: 51–60 mm. Male sex-mark in form 1.[1]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 Bingham (1905)

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