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Ypthima Frontierii
''Ypthima'' is a species rich genus of Old World butterflies in the family Nymphalidae."''Ypthima'' Hübner, 1818"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''


Species

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Ypthima Baldus
''Ypthima baldus'', the common five-ring, is a species of Satyrinae butterfly found in Asia. Description Wet-season form (in India) Male: Upperside brown, both forewing and hindwing with terminal margins much darker, and generally with more or less distinct subbasal and discal dark bands. Forewing with a large, slightly oblique, oval, bi-pupilled, yellow-ringed black, pre-apical ocellus. Hindwing with two postdiscal, round, uni-pupilled, similar but smaller ocelli, and very often one or two minute tornal ocelli also. Underside similar to the underside in ''Y. philomela'' but the ochraceous-white ground colour paler, tin-transverse brown strice coarser, the ocelli on the hindwing more distinctly in echelon, two tornal, two median, and two preapical, and on both forewing and hindwing more or less distinctly defined, subbasal, discal and subterminal brown transverse bands. Female: Differs on the upperside in having the area surrounding or bordering the ocelli on both forewing an ...
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