Common Four-ring

Ypthima huebneri Kirby, 1871



Malayalam Name     

:

നാൽക്കണ്ണി

Common Name

;

Red-eye Bush Brown 

Order 

:

Lepidoptera

Super Family            

:

Papilionoidae (Butterflies)

Family              

: 

Nympalidae

Sub Family

:

Satyrinae

DISTRIBUTION :  The species found in South Asia India.

STATUS: Endemic to Western Ghats

HABITAT : 
HABITS :

IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES: 

Medium-sized brown butterfly with wingspan of 35 to 45 mm.

Upperside Vandyke brown to dark sepia brown. Forewing uniform, with the usual single preapical ocellus. Hindwing: posterior half, sometimes less than half, pure white, with two or three small posterior ocelli, a lunular incomplete subterminal and an even slender terminal brown line. Underside white with somewhat sparse, short, delicate, fine transverse brown stride, getting denser towards the apex of the forewing. Forewing with the ocellus, a brown ring surrounding it very broad and very broadly and diffusely produced downwards, discal and subterminal transverse fascial obscure. Hindwing with four ocelli in a curve, the anal bi-pupilled; traces of a discal transverse brown fascia and of a lunular subterminal brown line.

 SIMILAR SPECIES : 

Similar to Common Three Ring

LARVAL HOST PLANTS

Axonopus compressus, Grass spp. (Poaceae).

LIFE CYCLE

MORE IMAGES


Common Four-ring
Photo credit: Anila Manalil
Common Four-ring
Typical four rings on hind wings

Five rings on hind wing 

The fulvous rings in hindwings not clear

Only 2 rings seen in upperside of hind wing


Common Four-ring
Mating pair

Courtesy 

Write up:Wikipaedia
Images: TNHS

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