Project butterfly Mankulam Division

 Telinga adolphei /  Heteropsis adolphei - Malayalam Name      : ചെങ്കണ്ണൻ തവിടൻ Common Name ; Red-eye Bush Brown   Order  : Lepidoptera Super Family             : Papilionoidae (Butterflies) Family               :  Nympalidae Sub Family : Satyrinae DISTRIBUTION :  The species found in South India. STATUS:   Endemic to Western Ghats HABITAT  :  HABITS : IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES:  Medium-sized brown butterfly with wingspan of 45 to 55 mm. Upperside : dark umber brown; Forewing with a large, white-centred, fulvous-ringed black median  ocellus   and a white-centred preapical much smaller black spot . Hindwing uniform, a ...

Telinga oculus Marshall, 1881 — Red-disc Bushbrown Malayalam Name      : തീക്കണ്ണൻ തവിടൻ Common Name ; Red-disc Bushbrown Order  : Lepidoptera Super Family             : Papilionoidae (Butterflies) Family               :  Nympalidae Sub Family : Satyrinae DIST RIBUTION :  Hills of Western Ghats STATUS:   Endemic to Western Ghats HABITAT  :  Evergreen and Semi Evergreen Forests and Bamboo Breaks HABITS IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES:  Male . Upperside rich ferruginous-brown. Forewing darker brown externally; with an indistinct small subapical black spot with white pupil; a very large prominent lower black ocellus, with large white pupil, broadly surrounded externally with bright ferruginous-red, which latter colour forms an irregular discal patch extending from the posterior margin and is anteriorly prolonged in front of the subapical spot to near the cost...