Lethe confusa

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Banded Treebrown

From Arunachal Pradesh, August 2006

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Satyrinae
Genus:	Lethe
Species:	L. confusa

Binomial name

Lethe confusa
Aurivillius, 1897

The Banded Treebrown, Lethe confusa, is a species of butterfly belonging to the satyr family that is found mainly in South East Asia and in parts of South Asia.

It is about 50-55 mm in expanse with the upper surface of wings predominantly brown in colour. Fore wing has a sub-apical white band and pale spot on the apex. Underside of the hindwing has a large ocellus or and a series of spots along the margin. Found in bamboo forests.

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Hind wing dentate at apex of vein 4. Upperside ground colour vandyke-brown; fore wing crossed by an oblique, slightly curved, discal white band, the margins of the band more even and regular than in the female of Lethe rohria; beyond this are two obliquely placed preapical white spots. Hind wing uniform, ocelli of the underside showing through.

at Samsing in Darjeeling district of West Bengal, India.

Underside uniform brown ; fore and hind wings with subbasal, subterminal and terminal sinuous lilacine-white lines; fore wing with the oblique discal white bar as on the upperside, followed by a subapical lilacine patch bearing three small ocelli in vertical order, and with a very short, oblique, white bar joining it to the costa. Hind wing with a sinuous, irregular, angulated discal lilacine-white line and a strongly arched series of black ocelli speckled with white in the centre, with an inner ochraceous, intermediate brown, and outer lilacine ring. Antenna, head, thorax and abdomen dull brown; antennae ochraceous at apex.^[1] Wing expanse 54-64 mm.