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Common Evening Brown

Melanitis leda leda

Photo by SukanyaDatta
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Field Notes

Description:

Brown. Like a dry leaf.

Habitat:

Office wall. When I spotted it today, I had https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/944356010
this one on my mind. I thought I had spotted a new species.

Notes:

Apparently these 2 are the one and the same. How confusing for an amateur like me.
Called Sanjhla in Bangla.

Reference Links:

Melanitis leda, http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/427-melanitis/melanitis-leda

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