Faunis eumeus

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Large faun
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F. eumeus
Binomial name
Faunis eumeus
(Drury, 1773)

Faunis eumeus, the large faun [1] 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). [1] [2]

Distribution

The large faun ranges from Assam to the Shan States and Burma. [1]

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. [3]

Status

The subspecies incerta from the Shan States is reported by William Harry Evans as very rare. [2]

See also

Cited references

  1. 1 2 3 "Faunis Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. 1 2 Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 131.
  3. Bingham, C.T. (1905). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma Butterflies . Vol. 1 (1st ed.). London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd. (under Clerome eumeus).

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