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Smooth-eyed Bush-brown

Orsotriaena medus cinerea

Photo by takmeng.wong
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Field Notes

Description:

Dark brown butterfly with a distinctive white stripe running across both fore-wings and hind-wings. A number of white spots ringed in black.

Habitat:

Undergrowth in secondary forest.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (6)

Your welcome. No need to apologize. You did nothing wrong, apparently that's what it was historically called in India. I had no idea there was a butterfly with that name. I was really surprised to read about. I learn so much from Noah and it's users.
Hi Dan! Thank you very much! I didn't know better, and do apologize for the previous name which I picked out of a book on butterflies!
Welcome Takmeng. All I learned from many nature trails done with Biologists...!!
I hope you don't mind, I changed the name of this spotting to its more socially acceptable Australian name.
Thanks Ashish for that ingenious tip! It's true! How come nobody told me this before!! Keep posting!
When you do not know the specie, check how many legs it has 4 means Nymphalidae family. Nymphalidae family butterflies has very small front legs from total 6 legs. We can not see them easily so feel they have 4 legs. So its easy to find the specie from a family..!!
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PublishedJune 29, 2011

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