Biology:Mycalesis anaxias
| White-bar bushbrown | |
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| Wet-season form | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Mycalesis |
| Species: | M. anaxias
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| Binomial name | |
| Mycalesis anaxias Evans, 1920
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Mycalesis anaxias, the white-bar bushbrown,[1][2] is a species of satyrid butterfly found in South and Southeast Asia. In South Asia, it inhabits Sikkim, eastwards through the hill-ranges to Assam, Cachar, Myanmar and Tenasserim. Also in southern India, in the Nilgiris and Travancore.[1][2]
Description
Wet-season form: male and female: Upperside dull Vandyke brown, paler in the female; subterminal and terminal fine lines on both forewings and hindwings fulvescent (tawny): cilia brown. Forewing with an oblique white preapical short band not quite reaching either the costa or the termen. Underside: forewing: basal area up to the white band, and in a transverse line from lower end of band to dorsum, blackish brown; terminal margin beyond broadly paler brown; a white-centred fulvous-ringed black ocellus in interspace 2, and two preapical, smaller similar ocelli, followed by a very sinuous subterminal and a straighter terminal dark brown line. Hindwing: basal two-thirds blackish brown, terminal border broadly paler, bearing normally seven ocelli similar to those on the forewing, and subterminal and terminal dark brown lines.[3][4]
Dry-season form: Upperside as in the wet-season form. Underside differs in the ocelli being indistinct or absent, and the subterminal and terminal dark lines on both forewing and hindwing absent or very faint; the terminal margins are broadly rufescent (reddish) brown, fading inwardly into lilacine, the oblique white bar on the forewing outwardly diffuse. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark brown; the antennae ochraceous towards apex.[3]
Wingspan: 51–60 mm. Male sex-mark in form 1.[3]
Gallery
Dry-season form at Samsing in Darjeeling district of West Bengal, India
Dry-season form at Samsing in Darjeeling district of West Bengal, India
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Varshney, R.K.; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. pp. 172. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287980260.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Savela, Markku. "Mycalesis anaxias Hewitson, 1862". http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/satyrinae/mycalesis/#anaxias.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bingham, Charles Thomas (1905). Fauna of British India. Butterflies Vol. 1. pp. 52–53. https://archive.org/stream/butterfliesvolii00bing#page/52/mode/2up/.
- ↑ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Moore, Frederic (1893–1896). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. II. London: Lovell Reeve and Co.. pp. 159–160. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103300#page/171/mode/1up.
References
- Bingham, C.T. (1905). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma Butterflies. 1 (1st ed.). London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd..
Wikidata ☰ Q2433815 entry
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