Lepidoptera > Papilionoidea > Nymphalidae > Satyrinae > Satyrini > Mycalesis
Mycalesis junonia Butler, 1868 – Malabar Glad-eye Bushbrown
Subspecies in India:
No subspecies are listed under this species. It is usually treated as a subspecies of the Sri Lankan Mycalesis patnia Moore, 1857 – Sri Lankan Glad-eye Bushbrown.
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Mycalesis junonia – Malabar Glad-eye Bushbrown
Early Stages:
Indian and global distribution:
records (based on images):
Larval Host Plants:
Poaceae (K. Kunte pers. obs. 2017). Oplismenus compositus (Kalesh & Prakash 2015) (Poaceae). This is often treated as a subspecies of Mycalesis patnia Moore, [1858].
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.
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:
Lepidoptera > Papilionoidea > Nymphalidae > Satyrinae > Satyrini > Mycalesis
Cite this page along with its URL as:
Valappil, B. 2021. Mycalesis junonia Butler, 1868 – Malabar Glad-eye Bushbrown. Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.24. Indian Foundation for Butterflies.
http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp/880/Mycalesis-junonia
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