Faunis arcesilaus

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Indian Faun

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Papilionoidea
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Morphinae
Genus:	Faunis
Species:	F. arcesilaus

Binomial name

Faunis arcesilaus
(Fabricius, 1787)

The Indian Faun Faunis arcesilaus (Fabricius, 1787)^[1] is a butterfly found in South Asia that belongs to the Morphinae sub family of the Brush-footed butterflies family.

This butterfly may be conspecific with Faunis canens^[2].

1 Distribution
2 Description
3 Status
4 Cited references
5 References
6 See also

[edit] Distribution

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

[edit] Description

Upperside of both male and female ochraceous, uniform in male. Apex of fore wing and termen in fore and hind wings in female slightly darker. Underside slightly ochraceous brown; subbasal and discal narrow dark fasciae crossing both fore and hind wing, strongly curved on the latter; followed by a postdiscal line of minute yellow spots, six. on the fore, seven on the hind wing, 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]

[edit] Status

Common.^[3]

[edit] Cited references

^ Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera Page on Faunis genus.
^ See Talk:Faunis arcesilaus
^ ^a ^b Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, pg 132.
^ Bingham, C. T. (1905) Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Vol. 1 (Under Clerome arcesilaus)

[edit] References

Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed). Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
Haribal, Meena (1992) Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History. Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation. Gangtok, Sikkim.
Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [1].
Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.