Aulocera swaha

Common Satyr
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Aulocera
Species: A. swaha
Binomial name
Aulocera swaha
Kollar, 1844

Common Satyr Aulocera swaha is a Brown butterfly that is found in the Himalayas.[1][2]

Range

The butterfly is found in the Himalayas in Afghanistan,[1] and the Himalayas from Safed Koh, Astor, Chilas, Gilgit, Chitral, Kashmir and Kulu eastwards across to Sikkim.[3][4]

Status

As per Evans, it is "Common" from Chitral to Sikkim, and "Not Rare" westwards.[3]

Description

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

The Common Satyr is 60 to 70 mm in wingspan.[3] Dark brown above, basically ground colour with a bronze sheen. With a white band across both wings. The band varies from white to bright yellow and narrows towards the dorsum on the hindwing which it never reaches (except rarely in the females). It has a chequered fringe and a dark apical spot or ocellus on the forewing. The under hindwing is beautifully variegated with brown, white and grey. The colour below is paler than that of the Great Satyr Aulocera padma {Kollar 1844} which is a larger and commoner butterfly.[5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on Aulocera genus. (Accessed on 01 Aug 2009).
  2. ↑ LepIndex shows this taxon as Satyrus swaha. LepIndex considers the genus Aulocera Butler, 1867; Ent. mon. Mag. 4: 121, TS: Satyrus brahminus Blanchard. to be a junior subjective synonym of Satyrus Latreille 1810 Cons. gén. Anim. Crust. Arach. Ins.: 355, 440, TS: Papilio actaea Linnaeus .
  3. 1 2 3 Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 116, ser no D11.3.
  4. ↑ Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation. p. 149.
  5. ↑ Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. pp. 108–109. ISBN 978-8170192329.

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