Faunis arcesilaus

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

The Indian Faun Faunis arcesilaus (Fabricius, 1787)[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

Upperside of both male and female 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 fore, 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

Common.[3]

See also

Cited references

  1. ↑ Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on Faunis genus.
  2. ↑ See Talk:Faunis arcesilaus
  3. 1 2 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. 1 (1st ed.). London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd. (under Clerome arcesilaus)

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