Dark-branded Bushbrown

Mycalesis mineus · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Nymphalidae

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Dark-branded Bushbrown
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The wet-season form has dark brown upper wings with thin pale lines near the edges. The underside is similar in colour but shows a dusky-white band and a row of eye-like spots surrounded by a yellow-white line.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Upperside is dark Vandyke brown with slender subterminal and terminal pale lines. Underside has a transverse dusky-white discal band and a postdiscal series of ocelli edged by a dusky-yellowish to purplish-white line.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It is a satyrine butterfly found in Asia.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Its range is in Asian countries.

Source: Wikipedia

Lookalikes

The hindwing has four posterior spots in a straight line, unlike the three spots of Mycalesis perseus.

Source: Wikipedia

More photos

Dark-branded Bushbrown photo 3
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Dark-branded Bushbrown photo 4
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Same family (Nymphalidae)

MonarchMonarchDanaus plexippusRed AdmiralRed AdmiralVanessa atalantaPainted LadyPainted LadyVanessa carduiGulf FritillaryGulf FritillaryDione vanillaeSpeckled WoodSpeckled WoodPararge aegeriaEuropean Peacock ButterflyEuropean Peacock ButterflyAglais io

Sources

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

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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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