Bicyclus ena

Grizzled bush brown
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Bicyclus
Species:	B. ena
Binomial name
Bicyclus ena (Hewitson, 1877)
Synonyms
Mycalesis ena Hewitson, 1877 Mycalesis ena f. kigonserae Aurivillius, 1925

Bicyclus ena, the grizzled bush brown, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from KwaZulu-Natal to Eswatini, Mpumalanga, from Zimbabwe to Kenya and in Uganda.[1]

The wingspan is 38–42 mm for males and 43–48 mm for females.The wings above are uniform dark grey-brown, the forewing with two very distinct, black, white-pupilled eye-spots ringed with dull yellow, a larger one in cellule 2 and a small one in cellule 5.[2] There are two extended generations per year. The wet-season form is on wing in spring and summer and the dry-season form in autumn and winter.[3]

References

1. "Bicyclus Kirby, 1871" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
3. Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN 978-1-86872-724-7.

3. Halali, S., Brakefield (el at.) (2020). To mate, or not to mate: The evolution of reproductive diapause facilitates insect radiation into African savannahs in the Late Miocene

4. WINDIG, J. J., BRAKEFIELD,(el at.) (1994). Seasonal polyphenism in the wild: Survey of wing patterns in five species of Bicyclus butterflies in Malawi.