- Zipoetis saitis
Taxobox
name = Tamil Catseye
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
classis =Insect a
ordo =Lepidoptera
familia = Nymphalidae
subfamilia =
genus = "Zipoetis"
species = "Z. saitis"
binomial = "Zipoetis saitis"The Tamil Catseye ("Zipoetis saitis") is a species of nymphalid
butterfly found inSouth India .Description
Upperside in fresh specimens velvet-black, or brown to light brown in the female. Fore wing with a broad, oblique, snow-white band from middle of costa to near apex of interspace 1, inwardly emarginate in its lower third. Hind wing with a similar broad white post-discal band parallel to the posterior two-thirds of the terminal margin, the outer margin of the band emarginate between the veins. Underside similar, ground-colour paler; the white bands as on the upperside; both fore and hind wings with a subterminal sinuous pale line. Hindwing with a row of five ocelli enclosed in a common silvery narrow band, on the inner side of the white band ; each ocellus with a white centre, an inner ring of ochraceous, and an outer ring of blackish brown; the ocelli at each end of the row the smallest, the preapical very large and bi-pupilled. Antennae ochraceous red ; head, thorax and abdomen dark brown.Bingham, C. T. (1905) Fauna of British India. Butterflies Volume 1.]
Expanse: 64-74 mm. (2.55-2.9").
Habitat: Southern India; the Nilgiris, Anaimalais ; Cochin and Travancore.
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