Mycalesis adolphei

Redeye Bushbrown
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Elymniini
Genus:	Mycalesis
Species:	M. adolphei
Binomial name
Mycalesis adolphei (Guérin-Ménéville, 1843)
Synonyms
Satyrus adolphei Guérin-Ménéville, 1843 Heteropsis adolphei (Guérin-Ménéville, 1843)

The Redeye Bushbrown Mycalesis adolphei is a species of Satyrine butterfly found in South India.

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.^[1]

Footnotes

1. ^ Bingham (1905)

References

• Bingham, C.T. (1905): The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Lepidoptera, Volume 1

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