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bordered on the inner side by a more or less silvery purple line. The series on both forewing and hindwing margined inwardly and outwardly by silvery purple lunular lines, on the forewing curved inwards, on the hindwing curved outwards; the ocelli on forewing confluent, black, non-pupilled, on the hindwing black with disintegrate silvery-speckled irregular centres on a brown ground.
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Underside very dark blackish brown; the wings crossed subbasally by a slender lilacine-white straight line, followed on forewing by an oblique short white discal fascia, and on both forewing and hindwing by a postdiscal series of large black ocelli and a terminal, somewhat ochraceous, narrow band
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Female similar: forewing on upperside with an oblique broad white discal band, hindwing with a postdiscal incomplete series of black spots. Underside similar to the underside in the male, markings and ocelli larger.
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Pupa. Uniform pale green, stout, smooth, quite regular, except the head-case which is semidetached, broad and angular, with two sharp points in front (after Davidson &
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Male upperside rich dark brown. Forewing with the oblique short white discal fascia on the underside showing through, two obscure black spots or
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area of Great Nicobar. Both adults and larvae were found along roadsides in disturbed forests. They were seen to breed on the bamboo
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Larva, green, paler beneath, fusiform; head with a single short erect horn; body attenuated suddenly from the 11th segment.
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with notes on other threatened butterflies from the Andamans and Nicobar Islands".
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Kurz. Eggs were laid on leaves deep inside the clump and never on the fringes.
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Ferrar, M. L. 1948. "The butterflies of the Andamans and Nicobars".
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island in 1931. It has been rediscovered in recent times in the
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Inner third of hindwing covered with long brown hairs.
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Lethe
Binomial name
Fabricius
Satyrinae
Glossary of entomology terms

ocelli
race
Little Nicobar
Michael Lloyd Ferrar
Great Nicobar
Campbell Bay
Dinochloa andamanica
Aitken
Eggs
Larva
Pre-pupatory larva
Pupa
Newly eclosed adult
Dorsal view (male)
Dorsal view (female)

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