Mycalesis anaxias

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iWhite-bar Bushbrown
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Nymphalidae Subfamily: Satyrinae Genus: Mycalesis Species: M. anaxias
Binomial name
Mycalesis anaxias (W. H. Evans, 1920)

The White-bar Bushbrown (Mycalesis anaxias) is a species of satyrid butterfly found in South and Southeast Asia.

[edit] Description

From Bingham, C. T. (1905) Fauna of British India. Butterflies Vol. 1

• Wet-season form: male and female: Upperside dull van dyke-brown, paler in the female; subterminal and terminal fine lines on both fore and hind wings fulvescent: cilia brown. Fore wing with an oblique white preapical short band not quite reaching either the costa or the termen. Underside : fore wing: 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. Hind wing: basal two-thirds blackish brown, terminal border broadly paler, bearing normally seven ocelli similar to those on the fore wing, and subterminal and terminal dark brown lines.
• Dry-season form.— Upperside as in the wet-season form. Underside differs in the ocelli being more or less obsolescent, and the subterminal and terminal dark lines on both fore and hind wing absent or very faintly indicated; the terminal margins are broadly rufescent brown, fading inwardly into lilacine, the oblique white bar on ihe fore wing outwardly diffuse- Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark brown; the antennae ochraceous towards apex. Male sex-mark in form 1.
• Expanse: 51-60 mm.
• Habitat: Sikkim, eastwards through the hill-ranges to Assam, Cachar, Burma and Tenasserim. Also in Southern India, the Nilgiris ; Travancore.