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Heteropsis adolphei

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(Redirected from Mycalesis adolphei) Species of butterfly

Redeye bushbrown
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Heteropsis
Species: H. adolphei
Binomial name
Heteropsis adolphei
(Guérin-Ménéville, 1843)
Synonyms
  • Satyrus adolphei Guérin-Ménéville, 1843
  • Mycalesis adolphei (Guérin-Ménéville, 1843)
  • Mycalesis onatas Hewitson, 1864
  • Telinga adolphei (Guérin-Ménéville, 1843)

Heteropsis adolphei, the red-eye bushbrown, is a species of satyrine butterfly found in southern India. The species name is after Adolphe Delessert who collected the first specimens based on which the species was described.

Description

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 post-median series of from two to four white-centred fulvous-ringed black ocelli, sub-equal and smaller than the posterior ocellus on the forewing. Underside: ground colour similar, but irrorated (sprinkled) with obscure transverse striae of a deeper brown; the terminal margins of both forewings and hindwings very broadly paler; the dark basal portion of the wings sharply defined by a very dark brown line; a postmedian series on both wings of rather small white-centred fulvous-ringed black ocelli—two on the forewing, a median and a preapical; seven, placed in a slight curve, on the hindwing. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark umber brown, paler beneath. Male sex-mark of form 2, the patch of specialized scales on both forewing and hindwing very small; the nacreous area surrounding the specialized scales on the underside of the forewing very pale brown.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Savela, Markku. "Heteropsis Westwood, 1850". Lepidoptera - Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  2. Aduse-Poku, Kwaku; Lees, David C.; Brattström, Oskar; Kodandaramaiah, Ullasa; Collins, Steve C.; Wahlberg, Niklas; Brakefield, Paul M. (2016). "Molecular phylogeny and generic-level taxonomy of the widespread palaeotropical 'Heteropsisclade' (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Mycalesina)". Systematic Entomology. 41 (4): 717–731. Bibcode:2016SysEn..41..717A. doi:10.1111/syen.12183.
  3. Kodandaramaiah, U., D. C. Lees, C. J. Müller, E. Torres, K. P. Karanth and N. Wahlberg. 2010. "Phylogenetics and biogeography of a spectacular Old World radiation of butterflies: the subtribe Mycalesina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrini)". BMC Evolutionary Biology, [10:172 (PDF)
  4. ^ R.K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. pp. 175–171. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.
  5. Delessert, Adolphe (1843). Souvenirs d´un voyage dans l´Inde exécuté de 1834 à 1839. Paris: Bétrune et Plon for Fortin, Masson et Cie & Langlois et Leclerq. p. 76.
  6. Public Domain One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Bingham, Charles Thomas (1905). Fauna of British India. Butterflies Vol. 1. London, Taylor and Francis; Calcutta and Simla, Thacker, Spink, & Co.; p. 60.
  7. Moore, Frederic (1890). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. I. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 210–211.

References

Taxon identifiers
Mycalesis onatas

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