Telinga adolphei
| Redeye bushbrown | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Telinga |
| Species: | T. adolphei
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| Binomial name | |
| Telinga adolphei (Guérin-Ménéville, 1843)[1]
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Telinga adolphei, the red-eye bushbrown,[1][2] is a species of satyrine butterfly found in southern India.[1][2] The species name is after Adolphe Delessert who collected the first specimens based on which the species was described.[3]
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.[4][5]
Footnotes
- ^ a b c Savela, Markku. "Heteropsis Westwood, 1850". Lepidoptera - Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.; [etc.,etc.] p. 60.
- ^ Moore, Frederic (1890). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. I. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 210–211.
References
- Bingham, C.T. (1905). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma Butterflies. Vol. 1 (1st ed.). London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd.