Faunis arcesilaus

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Indian faun
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nymphalidae
Genus:
Faunis
Species:
F. arcesilaus
Binomial name
Faunis arcesilaus
(Fabricius, 1787)

Faunis arcesilaus, the Indian faun[1] is a butterfly found in South Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterfly family.

This butterfly may be conspecific with Faunis canens.[2]

Distribution[]

The Indian faun ranges from Sikkim to Assam and Myanmar.[3]

Description[]

The upperside of both the male and female is ochraceous, uniform in male. Apex of forewing and termen in forewings and hindwings in female slightly darker. Underside slightly ochraceous brown; subbasal and discal narrow dark fasciae crossing both forewing and hindwing, strongly curved on the latter; followed by a postdiscal line of minute yellow spots, six. on the forewing, seven on the hindwing, 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.[4]

Status[]

In 1957, Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth described the species as being common.[3]

See also[]

Cited references[]

  1. ^ "Faunis Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ See Talk:Faunis arcesilaus
  3. ^ a b Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 132. ISBN 978-8170192329.
  4. ^ Bingham, C.T. (1905). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma Butterflies. Vol. 1 (1st ed.). London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd. (under Clerome arcesilaus)

References[]

  • Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
  • Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.


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