Kingdom Animalia Order Lepidoptera Tribe Elymniini Scientific name Mycalesis malsarida Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Family Nymphalidae Genus Mycalesis Higher classification Mycalesis | |
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Similar Mycalesis, Mycalesis anaxias, Mycalesis lepcha | ||
The Plain Bushbrown, Mycalesis malsarida, is a species of satyrine butterfly found in Asia (Assam (Khasia, Naga Hills) and possibly Vietnam).
Description
Wet-season form. Upperside uniform dark vandyke-brown, slightly paler towards apex of forewing and with somewhat obscure subterminal pale lines. Underside similar, but shading into purplish towards the apex of the fore and terminal margins of both forewings and hindwings; the wings crossed by a common pale purplish transverse band followed by a series of white-centred, fulvous-ringed black ocelli, five on the forewing and seven on the hindwing, the series bordered ou both sides by slender irregular sinuous purple lines, beyond which are subterminal and terminal paler purple lines. Sometimes one or two of the ocelli are absent. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown. Male sex-mark in form 2.
Dry-season form. Upperside similar to that in the wet-season form but paler. Underside move purplish towards terminal margins of the wings; the transverse band narrower, not so well-defined; the ocelli more or less obsolete, reduced to mere specks; subterminal and terminal lines ochraceous. The rest as in the wet-season form.