List of butterflies of India (Satyrinae)

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Common palmfly, Elymnias hypermnestra, a satyrine butterfly found in India. Palmfly.jpg
Common palmfly, Elymnias hypermnestra , a satyrine butterfly found in India.

This is a list of the butterflies of India belonging to the subfamily Satyrinae of the family Nymphalidae and an index to the species articles. This forms part of the full List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae) which itself forms part of the complete List of butterflies of India.

Contents

A total of 177 species belonging to 22 genera are found in India.

Cyllogenes - evening browns

Melanitis - evening browns

Parantirrhoea - Travancore evening brown

Lethe - treebrowns

Neope - labyrinths

Chonala - Chumbi wall

Lasiommata - walls

Orinoma - tiger brown

Rhapicera - tawny walls

Penthema - kaisers

Ethope - dusky diadem

Neorina - owl

Elymnias - palmflies

Rhapicera - walls

Mycalesis - bushbrowns

Heteropsis - red-eye bushbrown

Orsotriaena - nigger

Coelites - catseye

Erites - cyclops

Ragadia - ringlets

Coenonympha - heath

Zipaetis - catseye

Hyponephele - meadowbrowns

Aulocera - satyrs

Callerebia - arguses

Chazara - rockbrowns

Karanasa

Loxerebia - mottled argus

Paralasa

Paroeneis - mountain arguses

Pesudochazara - tawny rockbrown

Satyrus - satyrs

Ypthima - rings

See also

Cited references

  1. 1 2 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Cyllogenes.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation..
  3. 1 2 3 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Melanitis.
  4. Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Parantirrhoea.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Lethe.
  6. de Nicéville, 1880; Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, (II) 49 (4): 246
  7. Haribal (1994) mentions L. s. serbonis and L. s. teesta
  8. Tytler, 19142; Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 23:
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Haribal, 1994:Noted under Zophoessa
  10. Leech, 1891; Entomologist 24 (Suppl.): 3
  11. (Atkinson, 1871); Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1871: 215
  12. Tytler, 1939; Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 41 (2): 245
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Neope.
  14. Evans, 1923; Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 29: 536 (or ?531)
  15. Meena Haribal, 1994:138.
  16. Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Chonala.
  17. 1 2 3 4 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Lasiommata.
  18. Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Orinoma.
  19. 1 2 3 4 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Rhapicera.
  20. 1 2 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Penthema.
  21. Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Ethope.
  22. 1 2 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Neorina.
  23. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Elymnias.
  24. Assam. Wood-Mason, ?1883; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 11: 62
  25. Assam. Khasi hills
  26. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Mycalesis.
  27. Watson, 1897; Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 10: 650, pl. A, f. 1
  28. Haribal, 1994:143 M. g. charaka
  29. Tytler, 1914; Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 23: 224
  30. de Nicéville, 1891; Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 6 (3): 343, pl. F, f. 1-2
  31. Doherty, 1886; Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (2) 55 (3): 257
  32. Moore, 1878; Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 583
  33. Moore, [1892]; Lepidoptera Indica, 1 (9): 187, TL: Sylhet, Tenasserim
  34. Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Heteropsis.
  35. Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Orsotriaena.
  36. Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Coelites.
  37. Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Erites.
  38. Wood-Mason & de Nicéville, 1883; in Marshall & de Nicéville, Butts India Burmah Ceylon 1 (2): 237, TL: Cachar
  39. 1 2 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Ragadia.
  40. Haribal, 1994: Under Ragadia crisilda crito
  41. Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Coenonympha.
  42. 1 2 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Zipaetis.
  43. 1 2 3 4 5 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Aulocera.
  44. Haribal, 1994" Gives as A. brahminus brahminoides (Moore), 1892. Markku Savela splits A. brahminus and A. brahminoides.
  45. Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Callerebia.
  46. Haribal, 1994: Notes C. scanda scanda and C. s. opima
  47. Haribal, 1994:Lists as Callerbia ananda with ssp. caeca and ananda
  48. Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Chazara.
  49. 1 2 3 4 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Karanasa.
  50. Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Loxerebia.
  51. Haribal, 1994: Lists as Callerbia narasingha (sic). Markku Savela gives Loxerebia narasingha dohertyi and gives reference to Evans, 1923; Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 29 (3): 785
  52. 1 2 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Paralasa.
  53. 1 2 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Paroeneis.
  54. Haribal, 1994:Lists as Paraoeneis pumilus bicolor (Seitz, 1908)
  55. Haribal, 1994: Lists as Paraoeneis palaearcticus sikkimensis (Staudinger) 1889
  56. 1 2 3 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Pseudochazara.
  57. 1 2 3 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Satyrus.
  58. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Ypthima.
  59. Elwes & Edwards, 18932; Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1893: f. 30
  60. Norman, 1958; Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 55 (1): 180
  61. de Nicéville, 1889; Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 4 (3): 165
  62. Moore, [1875]; Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 (4): 567
  63. Singh, Arun P. (2007). "A new butterfly species of the genus Ypthima Hubner (Nymphalidae:Satyrinae) from the Garhwal Himalaya, India". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 104 (2): 191–194.

Related Research Articles

<i>Lethe</i> (butterfly) Genus of butterflies

Lethe is a butterfly genus from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1819. It includes the treebrowns, woodbrowns, foresters and their relatives. The species in the genus Lethe occur in temperate-tropical southern and eastern Asia, up to Indonesia and in North America.

<i>Mycalesis</i> Genus of brush-footed butterflies

Mycalesis, the bushbrowns, are a genus of brush-footed butterflies. They are common in the warm regions from Central Asia to Australia, and have a high diversity in South Asia and the Wallacea.

<i>Athyma</i> Genus of brush-footed butterflies

Athyma is a genus of brush-footed butterflies. They are commonly known as the "true" or "typical" sergeants, to distinguish them from the false sergeants of the genus Pseudathyma, a fairly close relative from the Adoliadini tribe. The genus ranges from Tibet to the Solomon Islands, but does not occur in New Guinea or Australia.

<i>Orsotriaena medus</i> Species of butterfly

Orsotriaena medus is a butterfly found in south Asia, southeast Asia, and Australia. It is the only species in the genus Orsotriaena, first described by Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren in 1858.

<i>Elymnias</i> Genus of butterflies

The palmflies are a common Asian butterfly genus found from India to the Solomon Islands. The caterpillars mimic leaves which they feed on. The adults mimic certain species.

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