Common Five-ring

Ypthima baldus · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Nymphalidae

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Common Five-ring
Photo: Chung Kiu, Ryan Cheng, CC BY-SA

The common five-ring butterfly has a wingspan of about 38 to 46 mm. Males are brown on the upperside with darker wing margins and distinct dark bands, and the forewing shows a large, slightly oblique, oval, yellow-ringed black eye-spot near the tip. It belongs to the Satyrinae subfamily and is found in Asia.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Males have brown uppersides with darker margins, subbasal and discal dark bands, and a large, slightly oblique, oval, yellow-ringed black eye-spot on the forewing.

Source: Wikipedia

Size

Wingspan ranges from 38 to 46 mm.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It is a butterfly species in the Satyrinae subfamily found in Asia.

Source: Wikipedia

More photos

Common Five-ring photo 3
Photo: Dr. Alexey Yakovlev, CC BY

Same family (Nymphalidae)

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Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ypthima_baldus

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Text written 2026-10-22 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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