Biology:Telinga adolphei

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Redeye bushbrown
Scientific classification edit
Missing taxonomy template (fix): Telinga
Species:
Binomial name
Template:Taxonomy/TelingaTelinga adolphei
(Guérin-Ménéville, 1843)[1]
Synonyms
  • Satyrus adolphei Guérin-Ménéville, 1843
  • Mycalesis adolphei (Guérin-Ménéville, 1843)
  • Mycalesis onatas Hewitson, 1864

Telinga adolphei, the red-eye bushbrown,[1][2] is a species of satyrine butterfly found in southern India.[1][2] The species name is after Adolphe Delessert who collected the first specimens based on which the species was described.[3]

Description

Upperside dark umber brown. Forewing with a large, white-centred, fulvous-ringed black median ocellus and a white-centred preapical much smaller black spot. Hindwing uniform, a post-median series of from two to four white-centred fulvous-ringed black ocelli, sub-equal and smaller than the posterior ocellus on the forewing. Underside: ground colour similar, but irrorated (sprinkled) with obscure transverse striae of a deeper brown; the terminal margins of both forewings and hindwings very broadly paler; the dark basal portion of the wings sharply defined by a very dark brown line; a postmedian series on both wings of rather small white-centred fulvous-ringed black ocelli—two on the forewing, a median and a preapical; seven, placed in a slight curve, on the hindwing. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark umber brown, paler beneath. Male sex-mark of form 2, the patch of specialized scales on both forewing and hindwing very small; the nacreous area surrounding the specialized scales on the underside of the forewing very pale brown.[4][5]

Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Savela, Markku. "Heteropsis Westwood, 1850". http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/satyrinae/heteropsis/. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 R.K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. pp. 175–171. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9. 
  3. Delessert, Adolphe (1843). Souvenirs d´un voyage dans l´Inde exécuté de 1834 à 1839. Paris: Bétrune et Plon for Fortin, Masson et Cie & Langlois et Leclerq. p. 76. https://archive.org/stream/souvenirsdunvoya00dele#page/76/mode/1up. 
  4. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bingham, Charles Thomas (1905). Fauna of British India. Butterflies Vol. 1. London, Taylor and Francis; Calcutta and Simla, Thacker, Spink, & Co.; [etc.,etc.]. pp. 60. https://archive.org/stream/butterfliesvolii00bing#page/60/mode/2up/. 
  5. Moore, Frederic (1890). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. I. London: Lovell Reeve and Co.. pp. 210–211. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103554#page/228/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 ☰ Q5747516 entry