Malabar glad-eye bushbrown
The Malabar glad-eye bushbrown is a brown butterfly from southern India. On each front wing it has a big black eyespot with a white centre and a pure white ring around it. Underneath, its wings have a row of eyespots edged with silver.
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Fun facts
Its wings measure about 42 to 54 millimetres from tip to tip.
Under each back wing there is a curved row of seven eyespots with a silvery band on both sides.
It is the southern Indian form of a butterfly that also lives in Sri Lanka, but it is a duller brown.
The males have a bright ochre-yellow spot near the back of the underside of the hindwing.
Most asked questions about Malabar glad-eye bushbrown
?Where does the Malabar glad-eye bushbrown live?
In southern India. The same species also lives in Sri Lanka.
?How big is the Malabar glad-eye bushbrown?
Its wings are about 42 to 54 millimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Mycalesis junonia
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Glad-eye bushbrown
Where the facts come from
- Mycalesis patnia (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. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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