Banded Catseye

Zipaetis saitis

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae

Zipaetis saitis, the Tamil catseye, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in South India. Description Upperside in fresh specimens velvet black, or brown to light brown in the female. Forewing with a broad, oblique, snow-white band from middle of costa to near apex of interspace 1, inwardly emarginate in its lower third.

Distribution

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