Mycalesis nicotia

Mycalesis nicotia
Brighteye Bushbrown
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Elymniini
Genus: Mycalesis
Species: M. nicotia
Binomial name
Mycalesis nicotia
Hewitson, 1850

Mycalesis nicotia, the Brighteye Bushbrown, is a species of satyrine butterfly found in Asia.

Description

Wet-season form. Upperside vandyke-brown. Fore wing with one very large, white-centred, fulvous-ringed median, and one, more rarely two, similar smaller subapical ocelli. Hind wing with one or two small similar ocelli. Fore and hind wings with subterminal and terminal pale lines. Underside pale brown, much paler in female than in male; the basal area of the wings irrorated with transverse brown striae up to a common transverse inwardly sharply-defined discal white band ; beyond this, a series of ocelli similar to the ocelli on the upperside, four on the front wing, the median ocellus being the largest, seven on the hind wing, the third from the tornus and the apical ocelli being the largest; terminal margins of wings slightly purpurescent, crossed by an inner and an outer subterminol and a terminal slender dark brown line, the subterminal lines being more or less zigzag and sinuous. Cilia of both fore and hind wing pale. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown; antennas ochraceous at apex. Male sex-mark in form 2, the tuft of hair overlying the specialized scales on the upperside of the hind wing black. Dry-season form. Similar. Differs in the ground-colour of the underside having a more ochraceous tint, the ocelli much reduced in size or obsolescent, and the inner of the two sub-terminal lines being more or less obscure and faintly [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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