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 DIST RIBUTION : 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 ful...