Malabar Glad-eye Bushbrown

Mycalesis patnia junonia Butler, 1868 — Malabar Glad-eye Bushbrown


Malayalam Name     

:

പൂങ്കണ്ണി

Order 

:

Lepidoptera

Super Family            

:

Papilionoidae (Butterflies)

Family              

Nympalidae

Sub Family

:

Nymphalinae

DISTRIBUTION :   Species found in India and Sri Lanka. The sub species is seen in Western Ghats

STATUS: sub species is endemic to Western Ghats

HABITAT : High elevation Shola grass lands

HABITS 

IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES: 

The wingspan of the butterfly ranges from 40 to 45millimetres. 

Upperside: The male has a dark umber-brown ground colour slightly suffused with ochraceous. Forewing with a large median and a much smaller subapical white-centred black ocellus, each with an orange-yellow iris, the upper portion of the iris round the median ocellus very broad, Hindwing uniform, with two very small fulvous-ringed black ocelli.  
The female is similar to the male but more strongly suffused with ochraceous on the upperside; basal area of both forewing and hindwing crossed by two darker yellow bands, and the discoidal cell of the forewing with an interior loop of the same colour.

SIMILAR SPECIES : Nil

LARVAL HOST PLANTS

Poaceae, Oplismenus compositus (Poaceae).

LIFE CYCLE

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Malabar Glad-eye Bushbrown
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Images: TNHS

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