Banded Cats Eye/ Tamil Cats Eye
Zipaetis saitis Hewitson, 1863 Malayalam Name : പൂച്ചകണ്ണി Common Name ; Banded Cats Eye/ Tamil Cats Eye Order : Lepidoptera Super Family : Papilionoidae (Butterflies) Family : Nympalidae Sub Family : Satyrinae DISTRIBUTION : South India STATUS : HABITAT : HABITS : IDENTIFICATION FEATURES: Medium-sized brown butterfly with wingspan of 64 0 to 74 mm. Upperside in fresh specimens velvet black, or brown to light brown in the female. Forewing with a broad, oblique, snow-white band from middle of costa to near apex of interspace 1, inwardly emarginate in its lower third. Hindwing with a similar broad wh...