Abisara bifasciata

Abisara bifasciata, the double-banded Judy[2] or twospot plum Judy,[3] is a butterfly in the family Riodinidae. It is found in Asia.[3][1][2][4][5]

Abisara bifasciata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Riodinidae
Genus:
Abisara
Species:
A. bifasciata
Binomial name
Abisara bifasciata
Moore, 1877[1]
Synonyms
  • Abisara angulata Moore, [1879]

Subspecies

Description
Male on the left and female on the right

Male. Upperside rich ferruginous-brown. Forewing darker brown externally; with an indistinct small subapical black spot with white pupil; a very large prominent lower black ocellus, with large white pupil, broadly surrounded externally with bright ferruginous-red, which latter colour forms an irregular discal patch extending from the posterior margin and is anteriorly prolonged in front of the subapical spot to near the costa. Hindwing with four anteriorly decreasing moderately small black ocelli with white pupils and darker ferruginous-red outer rings. Cilia dark cinereous. Underside paler ferruginous-brown, more ochraceous brown externally. Both wings with the basal area marked with short dark ferruginous-brown strigae, and with a distinct darker brown transverse discal line, which is widely ochreous bordered externally at its costal end on the forewing, and narrowly with cinereous posteriorly on both wings. Forewing with a minute subapical and a small lower median ocellus, and sometimes a white dot is also present between the upper and middle median veins. Hindwing with six very small ocelli, the four upper and the lowest being minute.

Male with a subbasal tuft of brown hairs overlapping a small glandular patch of blach scales on the upperside of hindwing, and on the underside of the forewing with a large basal nacreous area with a very slight ordinary glandular patch of blackish scales.

Female larger. Upperside of somewhat brighter colours; all the ocelli larger and more prominent. Underside paler than in the male, the transverse discal line on both wings broadly diffused externally with paler ochreous anteriorly and cinereous posteriorly; ocelli the same as in male.

Body above dark brown; abdomen beneath, legs, and streaks on sides of palpi pale ochreous-brown.

— Frederic Moore, Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. V[4]

References
  1. Savela, Markku. "Abisara bifasciata Moore, 1877". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
  2. "Abisara bifasciata Moore, 1877 – Double-banded Judy". Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  3. R.K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. p. 85. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.
  4. Moore, Frederic (1903–1905). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. V. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. p. 88.
  5. Bingham, C.T. (1905). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. I (1st ed.). London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd. pp. 494–495.


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