Peninsular Grey Count
Tanaecia lepidea miyana (Fruhstorfer, 1913) പേഴാളൻ Malayalam Name : പേഴാളൻ Family : Nymphalidae Sub-family : Limenitidinae Tribe : Leptocircini Order : Lepidoptera DISTRIBUTION: South and South east Asia STATUS: Not Common HABITAT: Forested habitats HABIT: IDENTIFICATION FEATURES: Blackish brown butterfly with marginal grey band with with 80–100 mm wings span. Upperside dark brown, paler in the female, with very obscure black markings of transverse lines across the cells of both forewings and hindwings and an oblique discal fascia on the forewing; an ash-grey continuous band along the termen of both forewings and hindwings, gradually broadening from the apex of the forewing, where it is very narrow, to the tornus of the hindwing, where it covers about one-third of the wing....