Faunis arcesilaus

Faunis arcesilaus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Faunis
Species:	F. arcesilaus
Binomial name
Faunis arcesilaus (Fabricius, 1787)

Faunis arcesilaus, the Indian faun,[1] 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.[2]

Distribution

The Indian faun ranges from Sikkim to Assam and Myanmar.[3]

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.[4]

Status

In 1957, Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth described the species as being common.[3]

See also

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

Cited references

1. "Faunis Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. See Talk:Faunis arcesilaus
3. Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 132. ISBN 978-8170192329.
4. Bingham, C.T. (1905). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma Butterflies. Vol. 1 (1st ed.). London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd. (under Clerome arcesilaus)

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.