Mycalesis anaxias, the white-bar bushbrown,[1][2] is a species of satyrid butterfly found in South and Southeast Asia. In South Asia, it inhabits Sikkim, eastwards through the hill-ranges to Assam, Cachar, Myanmar and Tenasserim. Also in southern India, in the Nilgiris and Travancore.[1][2]
Wet-season form: male and female: Upperside dull Vandyke brown, paler in the female; subterminal and terminal fine lines on both forewings and hindwings fulvescent (tawny): cilia brown. Forewing with an oblique white preapical short band not quite reaching either the costa or the termen. Underside: forewing: basal area up to the white band, and in a transverse line from lower end of band to dorsum, blackish brown; terminal margin beyond broadly paler brown; a white-centred fulvous-ringed black ocellus in interspace 2, and two preapical, smaller similar ocelli, followed by a very sinuous subterminal and a straighter terminal dark brown line. Hindwing: basal two-thirds blackish brown, terminal border broadly paler, bearing normally seven ocelli similar to those on the forewing, and subterminal and terminal dark brown lines.[3][4]
Dry-season form: Upperside as in the wet-season form. Underside differs in the ocelli being indistinct or absent, and the subterminal and terminal dark lines on both forewing and hindwing absent or very faint; the terminal margins are broadly rufescent (reddish) brown, fading inwardly into lilacine, the oblique white bar on the forewing outwardly diffuse. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark brown; the antennae ochraceous towards apex.[3]
Wingspan: 51–60 mm. Male sex-mark in form 1.[3]
Dry-season form at Samsing in Darjeeling district of West Bengal, India
Mycalesis anaxias, the white-bar bushbrown, is a species of satyrid butterfly found in South and Southeast Asia. In South Asia, it inhabits Sikkim, eastwards through the hill-ranges to Assam, Cachar, Myanmar and Tenasserim. Also in southern India, in the Nilgiris and Travancore.
Mycalesis anaxias (Engels: White-bar Bushbrown) is een dagvlinder uit de subfamilie Satyrinae, de zandoogjes en erebia's.
De vlinder komt voor in het Oriëntaals gebied en vliegt van zeeniveau tot een hoogte van 1700 meter in berggebied.
Mycalesis anaxias (Engels: White-bar Bushbrown) is een dagvlinder uit de subfamilie Satyrinae, de zandoogjes en erebia's.
De vlinder komt voor in het Oriëntaals gebied en vliegt van zeeniveau tot een hoogte van 1700 meter in berggebied.
Mycalesis anaxias là một loài bướm trong phân họ Satyrinae được tìm thấy ở Nam Á, và Đông Nam Á. Tại Nam Á, nó sinh sống ở Sikkim, về phía đông qua các rặng đồi đến Assam, Cachar, Myanma và Tenasserim. Cũng có ở Nam Ấn Độ, ở Nilgiris và Travancore. Sải cánh: 51–60 mm.[1]
Mycalesis anaxias là một loài bướm trong phân họ Satyrinae được tìm thấy ở Nam Á, và Đông Nam Á. Tại Nam Á, nó sinh sống ở Sikkim, về phía đông qua các rặng đồi đến Assam, Cachar, Myanma và Tenasserim. Cũng có ở Nam Ấn Độ, ở Nilgiris và Travancore. Sải cánh: 51–60 mm.