Dingy bushbrown
The dingy bushbrown is a brown butterfly from South and Southeast Asia. On each front wing it has a black eye spot with a white middle and an orange ring. It looks different in the rainy season and in the dry season.
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Fun facts
In the rainy season, the underside of its back wing usually has a row of seven eye spots.
In the dry season, the eye spots underneath almost disappear and the wings look like a dry brown leaf.
The female's big eye spot on the front wing is always larger than the male's.
Most asked questions about Dingy bushbrown
?Why does the dingy bushbrown look different at different times of year?
It has a rainy-season form with clear eye spots and a dry-season form that is plainer brown.
?How big is the dingy bushbrown?
Its wings measure about 42 to 54 millimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Mycalesis perseus
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Common bushbrown
Where the facts come from
- Mycalesis perseus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Jeevan Jose, Kerala, India derivative work: Mario Link. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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