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Heteropsis Oculus
''Mycalesis oculus'', the red-disc bushbrown, is a satyrine butterfly found in southern India. It is similar in markings to ''Mycalesis adolphei ''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 Uppe ...'' but distinguished by the reddish band around the large apical spots on the upper forewings. Description Somewhat similar to ''Mycalesis adolphei'' but the eyespots on the median vein of the upper forewing much larger and encircled by a broad ring of orange red and extending towards the costal margin (leading edge). The underside is dark reddish brown. The eyespot on the hindwing is larger than in ''M. adolphei''. The wingspan is about 5 to 6 cm. The species is found mainly in the hill forests of the southern Western Ghats. References Mycalesis Butterflies of Asia Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Frederick Leycester Marshall
Major-General George Frederick Leycester Marshall (27 March 1843 Bridgnorth, Salop – 7 March 1934) was the son of William Marshall (a clergyman) and his wife Louisa Sophia, also brother of C. H. T. Marshall and uncle of Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall. He became a Colonel in the Indian Army and was a naturalist interested in the birds and butterflies of India. Marshall described several new species of butterflies, along with Lionel de Nicéville Charles Lionel Augustus de Nicéville (1852 in Bristol – 3 December 1901 in Calcutta from malaria) was a curator at the Indian Museum in Calcutta (now Kolkata). He studied the butterflies of the Indian Subcontinent and wrote a three volume mono ..., and discovered the white-tailed iora, sometimes referred to as Marshall's iIora. He wrote ''The butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon''. Marshall retired from the Royal (late Bengal) Engineers in November 1897. Marshall married Elizabeth Huntley Muir (1851, Agra - 1913) at Allahabad in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |