Lepidoptera > Papilionoidea > Nymphalidae > Satyrinae > Satyrini > Telinga

Telinga oculus (Marshall, 1881) – Red-disc Bushbrown

Subspecies in India:

No subspecies are listed under this species. It was earlier included under Mycalesis (Evans 1932), then under Heteropsis (Kodandaramaiah et al. 2010), but has since been transferred under Telinga (Aduse-Poku et al. 2016).

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Telinga oculus – Red-disc Bushbrown

Early Stages:

Indian and global distribution:

records (based on images):

Larval Host Plants:

Cyrtococcum trigonum (Kalesh S. pers. obs. 2017), Polytrias indica (Kalesh S. pers. obs. 2017), Oplismenus compositus (Kalesh & Prakash 2015) (Poaceae).

Key Reference:
Nitin, R., V. C. Balakrishnan, P. V. Churi, S. Kalesh, S. Prakash, and K. Kunte. 2018. Larval host plants of the butterflies of the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 10:11495–11550.

For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.

Identification:

Sexual, seasonal & individual variation:

Status, Habitat and Habits:

References:

Aduse-Poku, K., Lees, D. C., Brattström, O., Kodandaramaiah, U., Collins, S. C., Wahlberg, N. And Brakefield, P. M. (2016), Molecular phylogeny and generic-level taxonomy of the widespread palaeotropical ‘Heteropsis clade’ (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Mycalesina). Systematic Entomology, 41: 717–731. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/syen.12183

Kodandaramaiah, U., D. C. Lees, C. J. Müller, E. Torres, K. P. Karanth and N. Wahlberg. 2010. Phylogenetics and biogeography of a spectacular Old World radiation of butterflies: the subtribe Mycalesina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrini). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10:172.

Lepidoptera > Papilionoidea > Nymphalidae > Satyrinae > Satyrini > Telinga

Cite this page along with its URL as:
Kunte, K. 2020. Telinga oculus (Marshall, 1881) – Red-disc Bushbrown. Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 2.75. Indian Foundation for Butterflies.
http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp/641/Telinga-oculus

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Telinga oculus (Marshall, 1881) – Red-disc Bushbrown

Subspecies in India:

Telinga oculus – Red-disc Bushbrown