Mycalesis malsarida
| Plain Bushbrown | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Elymniini |
| Genus: | Mycalesis |
| Species: | M. malsarida |
| Binomial name | |
| Mycalesis malsarida Butler, 1868 | |
The Plain Bushbrown, Mycalesis malsarida, is a species of satyrine butterfly found in Asia (Assam (Khasia, Naga Hills) and possibly Vietnam).
Description
Wet-season form. Upperside uniform dark vandyke-brown, slightly paler towards apex of fore wing and with somewhat obscure subterminal pale lines. Underside similar, but shading into purplish towards the apex of the fore and terminal margins of both fore and hind wings; the wings crossed by a common pale purplish transverse band followed by a series of white-centred, fulvous-ringed black ocelli, five on the fore and seven on the hind wing, the series bordered ou both sides by slender irregular sinuous purple lines, beyond which are subterminal and terminal paler purple lines. Sometimes one or two of the ocelli are absent. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown. Male sex-mark in form 2.
Dry-season form. Upperside similar to that in the wet-season form but paler. Underside move purplish towards terminal margins of the wings ; the transverse band narrower, not so well-defined ; the ocelli more or less obsolete, reduced to mere specks; subterminal and terminal lines ochraceous. The rest as in the wet-season form.[1]
Footnotes
- ↑ Bingham (1905)
References
- Bingham, C.T. (1905): The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Lepidoptera, Volume 1