Common Fivering

Ypthima argus · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Nymphalidae

Also called: Common Five-ring Butterfly

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Common Fivering
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The common five-ring butterfly has a wingspan of about 38 to 46 mm. Males are brown on the upperside with darker wing edges and a distinctive yellow-ringed black eye-spot near the tip of the forewing. It lives in a wide range of Asian habitats, from the sub-Himalayan regions of India and Nepal to the Malay Peninsula and Japan.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Males show brown upperside wings with darker margins and clear subbasal and discal dark bands. The forewing carries a large, slightly slanted oval black eye-spot with a yellow ring near the tip.

Source: Wikipedia

Size

Wingspan ranges from 38 to 46 mm.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It is a Satyrinae butterfly found across many parts of Asia.

Source: Wikipedia

Lookalikes

The underside resembles Y. philomela but with a paler ochraceous-white ground colour, coarser brown striae, and more distinctly arranged ocelli on the hindwing.

Source: Wikipedia

Same family (Nymphalidae)

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Sources

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

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Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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