Ypthima pupillaris

Ypthima pupillaris
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Ypthima
Species:	Y. pupillaris
Binomial name
	Ypthima pupillaris; Butler, 1888
Synonyms
	Ypthima pupillaris ab. depupillata Strand, 1909; Ypthima pupillaris ab. macrocellata Strand, 1913; Ypthima gazana van Son, 1955;

Ypthima pupillaris, the eyed ringlet, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique.^[2] It is allied to doleta - smoke-brown; wings above with the marginal part lighter, proximally bounded by a dark line, with two fine marginal lines; forewing with a large, oval, bi-pupilled eye-spot; hindwing with an eye-spot in cellule 2 and a very small double one in 1 c. Wings beneath grey, densely striated with olive-brown, a submarginal stripe and a marginal line dark. Hindwing beneath with three eye-spots, one with double pupil in 1 c, one in 2 and a larger in 6. Central Africa. ^[3]

The habitat consists of grassland at altitudes above 1,500 meters and woodland. Adults are on wing in June, September, October, February, March and April.

Subspecies

The species may be divided into the following subspecies:

Ypthima pupillaris pupillaris (Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, northern Zambia, northern and eastern Zimbabwe, Mozambique)
Ypthima pupillaris obscurata Kielland, 1982 (Ethiopia, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Tanzania, Malawi)

References

^ "Ypthima Hübner, 1818" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ Afrotropical Butterflies: File E – Nymphalidae - Subtribe Ypthimina
^ Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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[funet-1] "Ypthima Hübner, 1818" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[ATBUT-2] Afrotropical Butterflies: File E – Nymphalidae - Subtribe Ypthimina

[3] Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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