Nilgiri Four Ring

Ypthima chenu 

Malayalam Name     

:

നീലഗിരി നാൽക്കണ്ണി

Common Name

;

Nilgiri Four Ring 

Order 

:

Lepidoptera

Super Family            

:

Papilionoidae (Butterflies)

Family              

: 

Nympalidae

Sub Family

:

Satyrinae

DISTRIBUTION :  The South India in Nilgiris and Anamala Hills

STATUS: Endemic to Western Ghats

HABITAT : High altitude areas

HABITS :

IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES: 

Medium-sized brown butterfly with wingspan of 45 to 50 mm.

Upperside van dyke-brown. Fore wing with the usual preapical, bipupilled, yellow-ringed, large ocellus, and a more or less obscure transverse subterminal fascia. Hind wing with two small submedian unipupilled black, ocelli ; no indications of a tornal ocellus. 

Underside : Fore wing ground-colour dusky greyish brown, covered with short transverse brown striae, very prominent discal and subterminal broad transverse dark brown posteriorly convergent fasciae ; the subterminal fascia bordered with whitish on both sides, and a preapical ocellus as on upperside. Hind wing : ground-colour white, with striae as on the fore wing ; subbasal,discal and subterminal broad transverse brown fasciae, also one apical and three postdiscal, laterally elongate, ocelli in a curve.

SIMILAR SPECIES : 

Similar to Common Three Ring

LARVAL HOST PLANTS

Grass spp. (Poaceae).

LIFE CYCLE

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Courtesy 

Write up:Wikipaedia
Images: TNHS

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