• Source: Faunis arcesilaus

Faunis arcesilaus, the Indian faun, is a butterfly found in South Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterfly family.
This butterfly may be conspecific with Faunis canens.




Distribution


The Indian faun ranges from Sikkim to Assam and Myanmar.




Description


The upperside of both the male and female is ochraceous, uniform in male. Apex of forewing and termen in forewings and hindwings in female slightly darker. Underside slightly ochraceous brown; subbasal and discal narrow dark fasciae crossing both forewing and hindwing, strongly curved on the latter; followed by a postdiscal line of minute yellow spots, six. on the forewing, seven on the hindwing, on the latter posteriorly abruptly curved; lastly, a sub terminal dark sinuous line. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen concolorous with the upperside of the wings.




Status


In 1957, Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth described the species as being common.




See also


List of butterflies of India
List of butterflies of India (Morphinae)
List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae)




Cited references






References


Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.

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• Faunis arcesilaus
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• Faunis canens
• List of butterflies of India (Morphinae)
• List of butterflies of Indochina