Mycalesis subdita

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Tamil Bushbrown
Conservation status
Not evaluated (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
(unranked) Rhopalocera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Satyrinae
Tribe: Elymniini
Subtribe: Mycalesina
Genus: Mycalesis
Species: M. subdita (but see text)
Binomial name
Mycalesis subdita
Mycalesis visala subdita (but see text)

The Tamil Bushbrown, Mycalesis (visala) subdita, is a satyrine butterfly found in South Asia. It is not resolved whether this is a good species or belongs into Mycalesis visala.

[edit] Description

Closely resembles in both seasonal forms Mycalesis mineus. The male can be discriminated by the sex-mark on the underside of the fore wing: this is brown or ochraceous brown as in M. perseoides but very much longer and broader, extending to but not going beyond the transverse band crossing the wings.[1]

Ceylon; S. India, Travancore.[1]

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Bingham (1905)

[edit] References


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