Ypthima tabella is a species of Satyrinae butterfly found in South India, described by Marshall and De Nicéville in 1883.[1][2][3] Some experts still consider this as a subspecies of Ypthima philomela, baby fivering.[4][5][6]
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Ypthima tabella Marshall & de Nicéville, 1883
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Description
editThe upper side of the male is brown, uniform in color. Fore-wing has a bipupilled ocellus. Hind-wing has two submarginal ocelli between the median nervules. The underside is pale brown. Fore-wing has one ocellus. Hind-wing has six ocelli, placed in pairs. No sexual patch on fore-wing on upper-side.[1][7][8]
It can be distinguished from Ypthima philomela by the absence of sexual mark in the male.[1]
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Imago (upper side)
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Imago (underside)
References
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- ^ a b c G. F. L., Marshall; Nicéville, Lionel de (1882). The butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon. A descriptive handbook of all the known species of rhopalocerous Lepidoptera inhabiting that region, with notices of allied species occurring in the neighbouring countries along the border; with numerous illustrations. Vol. II-III. Calcutta: Central Press Co., ld. p. 234.
- ^ Kehimkar, Isaac (2016). Butterflies of India (2016 ed.). Mumbai: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 144. ISBN 9789384678012.
- ^ "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist". catalogueoflife.org.
- ^ Varshney, R.; Smetacek, P. A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India (2015 ed.). New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal and Indinov Publishing. p. 12.
- ^ "Ypthima Hübner, 1818" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ LepIndex: The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Beccaloni G.W., Scoble M.J., Robinson G.S. & Pitkin B., 2005-06-15
- ^ Bingham, Charles Thomas (1905). Fauna of British India. Butterflies Vol. 1. pp. 133–134.
- ^ Moore, Frederic (1893). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. II. Vol. 2. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. p. 73.