Common Four-ring

Ypthima huebneri · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Nymphalidae

Also called: common fourring

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Common Four-ring
Photo: Rejoice Gassah, CC BY

The common four-ring butterfly has a wingspan of about 33 to 43 mm and is greyish-brown above with distinctive eye-like spots on its wings. It lives in the Himalayas, parts of India, Sri Lanka and across South-East Asia, and its caterpillars feed on grasses such as Axonopus compressus.

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How to recognize it

The upper side of the wings is greyish brown. The forewing shows a large, double-pupilled, yellow-ringed black spot near the tip. The hindwing usually has two small single-pupilled spots beyond the middle, sometimes three or none.

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Size

Some individuals measure 33 to 39 mm across.

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What it eats

Caterpillars feed on the grass Axonopus compressus.

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Life cycle

The larva is about 25 mm long and has two backward-pointing processes from the anal segment. The pupa is green or brown, with a rounded head, raised wing-case edges, a humped thorax and dark brown wavy lines and spots.

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Lookalikes

The pale western Indian form var. jocularia resembles the typical butterfly. Race kashmira differs by having a darker, more uniform upperside and a dull brownish underside.

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More photos

Common Four-ring photo 3
Photo: Gopakumar VR Namboothiri, CC BY

Same family (Nymphalidae)

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Sources

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

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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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