''Faunis eumeus'', the large faun
["''Faunis'' Hübner, and South East Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterfly family.
The ''assama'' subspecies of the large faun is now considered to be a separate species, ''Faunis assama'' ( John O. Westwood, Westwood, 1858).](_blank)
Distribution
The large faun ranges from Assam
Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...
to the Shan States
The Shan States (1885–1948) were a collection of minor Shan kingdoms called ''muang'' whose rulers bore the title ''saopha'' in British Burma. They were analogous to the princely states of British India.
The term "Shan States" was firs ...
and Burma
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.
Description
Upperside of males and females: forewing maroon, with a very broad, oblique, preapical, somewhat diffuse, bright ochraceous band extending from costa to termen and along latter almost to the tornus; this band broader in the female than in the male. Hindwing brown, shading to dark maroon anteriorly. Underside maroon brown; apex of forewing broadly paler, dorsal margin of same dull brown; subbasal, discal and postdiscal dark, sinuous, continuous lines crossing both wings; between the latter two a series of prominent round white spots, five or six on the forewing (straight in the male, slightly incurved in the female), six or seven on the hindwing, arched in both sexes. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown.[ (under ''Clerome eumeus'').]
Status
The subspecies ''incerta'' from the Shan States is reported by William Harry Evans as very rare.
See also
*List of butterflies of India
The following is a list of the butterflies of India.
India has extremely diverse terrain, climate and vegetation, which comprises extremes of heat cold, desert and jungle, of low-lying plains and the highest mountains, of dryness and dampness, i ...
* List of butterflies of India (Morphinae)
* List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae)
Cited references
References
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Faunis
Biota of Hong Kong
Fauna of Hong Kong
Butterflies of Asia
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