| Hyponephele cheena | |
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| Hyponephele cheena cheena | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Hyponephele |
| Species: | H. cheena |
| Binomial name | |
| Hyponephele cheena (Moore, 1865) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Hyponephele cheena is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae. It is found in India. [1]
The meadow brown is a butterfly found in the Palearctic realm. Its range includes Europe south of 62°N, Russia eastwards to the Urals, Asia Minor, Iraq, Iran, North Africa and the Canary Islands. The larvae feed on grasses.
Danaus genutia, the common tiger, is one of the common butterflies of India. It belongs to the "crows and tigers", that is, the Danainae group of the brush-footed butterflies family. The butterfly is also called striped tiger in India to differentiate it from the equally common plain tiger, Danaus chrysippus. The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1779.
Euploea klugii, the brown king crow or king crow, is a butterfly from the family Nymphalidae found in India and Southeast Asia. The species was first described by the entomologist Frederic Moore in 1858.
Idea malabarica, the Malabar tree nymph, is a large butterfly found in peninsular India. that belongs to the danaid group of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in forest clearings and above the forest canopy.
Charaxes bernardus, the tawny rajah, is a butterfly that belongs to the rajahs and nawabs group, that is, the Charaxinae group of the brush-footed butterflies family. This species can be found in India, China, Indomalaya, and onwards to Indonesia.
The Satyrini is one of the tribes of the subfamily Satyrinae. It includes about 2200 species and is therefore the largest tribe in the subfamily which comprises 2500 species.
Hyponephele lycaon, the dusky meadow brown, is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae. It is broadly distributed in the temperate zone of the Palearctic from Portugal in the west to the Russian Far East in the east.
Hyponephele davendra, the white-ringed meadowbrown, is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae. It can be found from Iran to Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan, the Himalayas, Tibet, and central Asia.
Hyponephele brevistigma is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae. It can be found in Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, Kashmir, western Pamirs and the southern slope of the Alai Mountains.
Hyponephele neoza is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae. It is found in India.
Hyponephele pulchella is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Turkestan to the western parts of the Himalayas and in Afghanistan.
Hyponephele pulchra, the tawny meadowbrown, is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Himalayas, from Chitral to Kumaon and in Kashmir.
Hyponephele tenuistigma is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir and the western part of the Pamir Mountains.
Ideopsis similis, the Ceylon blue glassy tiger, is a butterfly found in Asia, including Sri Lanka, India and Taiwan, that belongs to the subfamily Danainae, in the family Nymphalidae. The genus Ideopsis found in India. Out of these two species Ideopsis similis is the only species reported from India or North East India specifically Arunachal & Assam. The other species I. juventa nicobarica is found in the Nicobar Island only.
Lepidoptera Indica was a 10 volume work on the butterflies of the Indian region that was begun in 1890 and completed in 1913. It was published by Lovell Reeve and Co. of London. It has been considered the magnum opus of its author, Frederic Moore, assistant curator at the museum of the East India Company. Frederic Moore described a number of new species through this publication. Moore was a splitter, known for careless creation of synonyms, sometimes placing the same species in more than one genus.
Hyponephele is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. Most range from Europe into central Asia with a few in northern Africa. They are commonly called meadowbrowns.
