Biology:Ypthima chenu
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Short description: Species of butterfly
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Ypthima |
| Species: | Y. chenu
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| Binomial name | |
| Ypthima chenu (Guérin-Méneville, 1843)
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Ypthima chenu,[1] the Nilgiri fourring,[2][3] is a species of Satyrinae butterfly found in south India.[2][3][4][5]
Description
Charles Thomas Bingham (1905) gives a detailed description as follows:[4]
Upperside van dyke-brown. Fore wing with the usual preapical, bipupilled, yellow-ringed, large ocellus, and a more or less obscure transverse subterminal fascia. Hind wing with two small submedian unipupilled black, ocelli ; no indications of a tornal ocellus. Underside : fore wing ground-colour dusky greyish brown, covered with short transverse brown striae, very prominent discal and subterminal broad transverse dark brown posteriorly convergent fasciae ; the subterminal fascia bordered with whitish on both sides, and a preapical ocellus as on upperside. Hind wing : ground-colour white, with striae as on the fore wing ; subbasal,discal and subterminal broad transverse brown fasciae, also one apical and three postdiscal, laterally elongate, ocelli in a curve. Antennae,head, thorax and abdomen dull greyish brown ; abdomen paler beneath. Male without any secondary sex-mark.In the dry-season form the fasciae on the underside of hind wing are still more prominent, the ocelli smaller.Exp. ♂ ♀ 44-50 mm. (1.73-1.98").
Habitat. S. India, the Nilgiri and Anaimalai Hills.—Bingham
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References
- ↑ 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. 77. https://archive.org/stream/souvenirsdunvoya00dele#page/77/mode/1up.
- ↑ 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. 180–181. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287980260.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Savela, Markku. "Ypthima Hübner, 1818 Rings Ringlets". http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/satyrinae/ypthima/.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bingham, Charles Thomas (1905). Fauna of British India. Butterflies Vol. 1. pp. 141–142. https://archive.org/stream/butterfliesvolii00bing#page/140/mode/2up/.
- ↑ Moore, Frederic (1893). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. II. London: Lovell Reeve and Co.. pp. 83–84. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36597#page/161/mode/1up.
Wikidata ☰ Q8059607 entry
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