Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Faunis | |
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The Large Faun Faunis eumeus (Drury, 1773) is a butterfly found in South and South East Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterfly family.
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The assama subspecies of the Large Faun is now considered to be a separate species, Faunis assama (Westwood, 1858).
Distribution
The Assam Faun ranges from Assam to North Myanmar, the Shan States, Indo China, southern Yunnan, South China and Hong Kong.
Description
Upperside of males and females: forewing maroon, with a very broad, oblique, preapical, somewhat diffuse, bright ochraceous band extending from costa to termen and along latter almost to the tornus; this band broader in the female than in the male. Hindwing brown, shading to dark maroon anteriorly. Underside maroon-brown; apex of forewing broadly paler, dorsal margin of same dull brown; subbasal, discal and postdiscal dark, sinuous, continuous lines crossing both wings; between the latter two a series of prominent round white spots, five or six on the forewing (straight in the male, slightly incurved in the female ), six or seven on the hindwing, arched in both sexes. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown.
Status
The subspecies incerta from the Shan states is reported by Evans as very rare.