| Redeye Bushbrown | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Elymniini |
| Genus: | Mycalesis |
| Species: | M. adolphei |
| Binomial name | |
| Mycalesis adolphei (Guérin-Ménéville, 1843) |
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The Redeye Bushbrown Mycalesis adolphei is a species of Satyrine butterfly found in South India. The species name is after Adolphe Delessert who collected the first specimens based on which the species was described.[1]
Upperside dark umber-brown. Fore wing with a large, white-centred, fulvous-ringed black median ocellus and a white-centred preapical much smaller black spot. Hind wing uniform, a post-median series of from two to four white-centred fulvous-ringed black ocelli, sub-equal and smaller than the posterior ocellus on the fore wing- Underside: ground-colour similar, but irrorated with obscure transverse striae of a deeper brown; the terminal margins of both fore and hind wings very broadly paler; the dark basal portion of the wings sharply defined by a very dark brown line; a postmedian series on both wings of rather small white-centred fulvous-ringed black ocelli—two on the fore wing, a median and a preapical; seven, placed in a slight curve, on the hind wing. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark umber-brown, paler beneath. Male sex-mark of form 2, the patch of specialized scales on both fore and hind wing very small; the nacreous area surrounding the specialized scales on the underside of the fore wing very pale brown.[2]