Faunis arcesilaus

Taxobox
name = Indian Faun


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
unranked_familia = Rhopalocera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Nymphalidae
subfamilia = Morphinae
genus = "Faunis"
species = "F. arcesilaus"
binomial = "Faunis arcesilaus"
binomial_authority = (Fabricius, 1787)

The Indian Faun "Faunis arcesilaus" (Fabricius, 1787)Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/morphinae/faunis/index.html Page on "Faunis" genus.] ] is a butterfly found in South Asia that belongs to the Morphinae sub family of the Brush-footed butterflies family.

This butterfly may be conspecific with "Faunis canens" [ See ] .

Distribution

The Indian Faun ranges from Sikkim to Assam and MyanmarWynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, pg 132.] .

Description

Upperside of both male and female ochraceous, uniform in male. Apex of fore wing and termen in fore and hind wings in female slightly darker. Underside slightly ochraceous brown; subbasal and discal narrow dark fasciae crossing both fore and hind wing, strongly curved on the latter; followed by a postdiscal line of minute yellow spots, six. on the fore, seven on the hind wing, on the latter posteriorly abruptly curved ; lastly, a sub terminal dark sinuous line. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen concolorous with the upperside of the wings. [Bingham, C. T. (1905) "Fauna of British India". "Butterflies". Vol. 1 (Under "Clerome arcesilaus")]

tatus

Common.

Cited references

References

* Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed). Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
* Haribal, Meena (1992) Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History. Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation. Gangtok, Sikkim.
* Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/index.html] .
* Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.

ee also

*Morphinae
*Nymphalidae
*List of butterflies of India
*List of butterflies of India (Morphinae)
*List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae)