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Oriental Common Evening Brown

Melanitis leda

Description:

Brown with one biggish eyespot and 5-6 smaller ones. This is the wet season form.

Habitat:

On the Office wall. It was drawn to the tubelight. Spotted it as I was leaving for the day...it meant aiming the camera at the tubelight ...thought I'd try my luck next day in natural light. I came back todayto find a well-fed house gecko lurking there and no butterfly.

Notes:

It has a dry season form too...which is quite different, with orange patches and all. And even the wet season form may look quite different: http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/427-mel...

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SukanyaDatta
Spotted by
SukanyaDatta

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Spotted on Oct 21, 2014
Submitted on Oct 22, 2014

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