Lethe confusa

Taxobox
name = Banded Treebrown


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image_caption = From Arunachal Pradesh, August 2006
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Nymphalidae
subfamilia = Satyrinae
genus = "Lethe"
species = "L. confusa"
binomial = "Lethe confusa"
binomial_authority = Aurivillius, 1897

The Banded Treebrown, "Lethe confusa", is a species of butterfly belonging to the satyr family that is found mainly in South East Asia and in parts of South Asia.

It is about 50-55 mm in expanse with the upper surface of wings predominantly brown in colour. Fore wing has a sub-apical white band and pale spot on the apex. Underside of the hindwing has a large ocellus or and a series of spots along the margin. Found in bamboo forests.

Description

:"See glossary for terms used"Hind wing dentate at apex of vein 4. Upperside ground colour vandyke-brown; fore wing crossed by an oblique, slightly curved, discal white band, the margins of the band more even and regular than in the female of "Lethe rohria"; beyond this are two obliquely placed preapical white spots. Hind wing uniform, ocelli of the underside showing through.

Underside uniform brown ; fore and hind wings with subbasal, subterminal and terminal sinuous lilacine-white lines; fore wing with the oblique discal white bar as on the upperside, followed by a subapical lilacine patch bearing three small ocelli in vertical order, and with a very short, oblique, white bar joining it to the costa. Hind wing with a sinuous, irregular, angulated discal lilacine-white line and a strongly arched series of black ocelli speckled with white in the centre, with an inner ochraceous, intermediate brown, and outer lilacine ring. Antenna, head, thorax and abdomen dull brown; antennae ochraceous at apex. [Bingham, C. T. 1905. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Volume 1. pp 82-83] Wing expanse 54-64 mm.

The Himalayas, Shimla to Sikkim, Assam into Myanmar and extending to Java.

References

External links

* [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/satyrinae/lethe/index.html Lethe genus]
* [http://meghalaya.nic.in/butterfy/satyridae.htm Butterflies of Meghalaya]

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