''Mycalesis patnia'', the glad-eye bushbrown, is a satyrid

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

found in southern

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

and

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

Description

Upperside: The male has a dark umber-brown ground colour slightly suffused with ochraceous. Forewings and hindwings with bright ochraceous-yellow, slender sub-terminal and terminal lines; cilia pale brown. Forewing with a large median and a much smaller subapical white-centred black ocellus, each with an orange-yellow iris, the upper portion of the iris round the median ocellus very broad, the lower incomplete and a more or less triangular orange-yellow discal patch. Hindwing uniform, with two very small fulvous-ringed black

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. Underside of male deep ochraceous yellow, subterminal and terminal line as on the upperside; forewing and hindwing crossed near base by a darker ochraceous-yellow line, followed by a silvery discal band, beyond which there are two ocelli as on the upperside, but each encircled also by an outer silvery ring; and on the hindwing a curved series of seven similar ocelli having a silvery band bordering them on both sides, the third and fourth ocelli from tornus together and the apical ocellus by itself placed on a brighter ochraceous patch encircled with black. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown, somewhat ochraceous beneath. Sex-mark is present in one morph. The female is similar to the male but more strongly suffused with ochraceous on the upperside; the orange-yellow patch on the forewing larger, spreading to the base of the wing and no ocelli on the hindwing. Underside as in the male, but of a brighter ochraceous yellow; basal area of both forewing and hindwing crossed by two darker yellow bands, and the discoidal cell of the forewing with an interior loop of the same colour. The southern Indian

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''M. p. junonia'' is identical to the nominate race from

but on the upperside is a duller brown; the median ocellus on the forewing encircled with pure white; no discal patch, or merely faint traces of one. Underside: markings similar to those in ''M. p. patnia'', but altogether of a duller and browner shade, without any general ochraceous tint, a large bright ochraceous spot posteriorly on the hindwing in the male. The median ocellus on the forewing broadly encircled with white. Male sex-marks are seen in one morph. It has a wingspan of 42–54 mm. File:2011 12 22 9999 4 1 Mycalesis patnia (7240461182).jpg, Egg File:2011 12 25 9999 351 1 Mycalesis patnia (7240461026).jpg, Larva (first instar) File:2011 12 27 9999 47 1 Mycalesis patnia (7240460810).jpg, Larva (later instar) File:2012 01 05 9999 243 1 Mycalesis patnia (7240460558).jpg, Larva (later instar) File:2012 01 30 9999 34 1 Mycalesis patnia (7240445744).jpg, Larva (final instar) File:2012 02 04 9999 4 1 Mycalesis patnia (7240445192).jpg, Pupation File:2012 02 08 9999 11 1 Mycalesis patnia (7240444936).jpg, Chrysalis (dorsal view) File:2012 02 08 9999 13 1 Mycalesis patnia (7240444706).jpg, Chrysalis (ventral view) File:2012 02 08 9999 4 1 Mycalesis patnia (7240459878).jpg, Chrysalis (lateral view) File:2012 02 13 9999 1 1 Mycalesis patnia (7240459584).jpg, Chrysalis (lateral view) File:Mycalesis junonia.jpg, Imago (side view) File:Mycalesis junonia Butler, 1868 – Malabar Glad-eye Bushbrown from Parambikulam (2).jpg, Imago (dorsal view) File:Glad-eye bushbrown.jpg, Open wing

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3270907 Mycalesis Butterflies of Asia