Heteropsis Adolphei
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''Heteropsis adolphei'', the red-eye bushbrown, is a species of satyrine butterfly found in southern India. The species name is after
Adolphe Delessert Adolphe François Delessert (15 September 1809 – 6 April 1869) was a French explorer and naturalist. A nephew of Baron Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert, Benjamin Delessert, he accompanied George Samuel Perrottet, Perrottet on a journey to India a ...
who collected the first specimens based on which the species was described.


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.


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References

* Elymniini Butterflies of Asia Butterflies described in 1843 Endemic fauna of India Taxa named by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville {{Heteropsis-stub