Ypthima chenu
Species of butterfly
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Ypthima chenu,[1] the Nilgiri fourring,[2][3] is a species of Satyrinae butterfly found in south India.[2][3][4][5]
| Nilgiri fourring | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Ypthima |
| Species: | Y. chenu |
| Binomial name | |
| Ypthima chenu (Guérin-Méneville, 1843) | |
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Description
Charles Thomas Bingham (1905) gives a detailed description as follows:[4]
Upperside van dyke-brown. Fore wing with the usual preapical, bipupilled, yellow-ringed, large ocellus, and a more or less obscure transverse subterminal fascia. Hind wing with two small submedian unipupilled black, ocelli; no indications of a tornal ocellus. Underside : fore wing ground-colour dusky greyish brown, covered with short transverse brown striae, very prominent discal and subterminal broad transverse dark brown posteriorly convergent fasciae; the subterminal fascia bordered with whitish on both sides, and a preapical ocellus as on upperside. Hind wing : ground-colour white, with striae as on the fore wing; subbasal, discal and subterminal broad transverse brown fasciae, also one apical and three postdiscal, laterally elongate, ocelli in a curve. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dull greyish brown; abdomen paler beneath. Male without any secondary sex-mark.In the dry-season form the fasciae on the underside of hind wing are still more prominent, the ocelli smaller.
Exp. ♂ ♀ 44-50 mm. (1.73-1.98").
Habitat. S. India, the Nilgiri and Anaimalai Hills.
— Bingham
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