Indian faun | |
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Species: | F. arcesilaus
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Faunis arcesilaus (
Fabricius, 1787)
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Faunis arcesilaus, the Indian faun [1] is a butterfly found in South Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterfly family.
This butterfly may be conspecific with Faunis canens. [2]
The Indian faun ranges from Sikkim to Assam and Myanmar. [3]
The upperside of both the male and female is ochraceous, uniform in male. Apex of forewing and termen in forewings and hindwings in female slightly darker. Underside slightly ochraceous brown; subbasal and discal narrow dark fasciae crossing both forewing and hindwing, strongly curved on the latter; followed by a postdiscal line of minute yellow spots, six. on the forewing, seven on the hindwing, on the latter posteriorly abruptly curved; lastly, a sub terminal dark sinuous line. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen concolorous with the upperside of the wings. [4]
In 1957, Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth described the species as being common. [3]
Indian faun | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | |
Phylum: | |
Class: | |
Order: | |
Family: | |
Genus: | |
Species: | F. arcesilaus
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Binomial name | |
Faunis arcesilaus (
Fabricius, 1787)
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Faunis arcesilaus, the Indian faun [1] is a butterfly found in South Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterfly family.
This butterfly may be conspecific with Faunis canens. [2]
The Indian faun ranges from Sikkim to Assam and Myanmar. [3]
The upperside of both the male and female is ochraceous, uniform in male. Apex of forewing and termen in forewings and hindwings in female slightly darker. Underside slightly ochraceous brown; subbasal and discal narrow dark fasciae crossing both forewing and hindwing, strongly curved on the latter; followed by a postdiscal line of minute yellow spots, six. on the forewing, seven on the hindwing, on the latter posteriorly abruptly curved; lastly, a sub terminal dark sinuous line. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen concolorous with the upperside of the wings. [4]
In 1957, Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth described the species as being common. [3]