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Dark Evening Brown

Melaniti phedima

Description:

Large, brownish grey butterfly with distinct yellow spots towards the edges of their wings.

Habitat:

Murty River jungle, low plain area. Temperature: warm to cool.

Notes:

It was spotted one evening inside the building of a resort at Murty River, Chalsa, Cooch Behar.

1 Species ID Suggestions

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago
Dark Evening Brown
Melanitis phedima Melanitis phedima


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2 Comments

DrNamgyalT.Sherpa
DrNamgyalT.Sherpa 10 years ago

Thanks bayucca for the ID.

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Looks like being Melanitis phedima? Quite a variable genus and species. Please, verify! I IDed one some time ago, which looked very similar, but I could not remember if that one also was Phedima and who took the picture.
http://www.learnaboutbutterflies.com/Ind...
http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/427-mel...

DrNamgyalTSherpa
Spotted by
DrNamgyalTSherpa

West Bengal, India

Spotted on Nov 2, 2013
Submitted on Nov 6, 2013

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