''Faunis assama'', the Assam faun,
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at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' is a butterfly found in South Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterfly family.
This butterfly was earlier considered to be a subspecies of the large faun (''
Faunis eumeus'' (
Drury, 1773)).
Distribution
The Assam faun ranges from the
Khasi and Jaintia Hills
The Khasi and Jaintia Hills are a mountainous region in India that was mainly part of Assam and Meghalaya. This area is now part of the present Indian constitutive state of Meghalaya (formerly part of Assam), which includes the present distri ...
of
Meghalaya
Meghalaya (; "the abode of clouds") is a states and union territories of India, state in northeast India. Its capital is Shillong. Meghalaya was formed on 21 January 1972 by carving out two districts from the Assam: the United Khasi Hills an ...
to northern
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...
.
Description
The species closely resembles ''
Faunis eumeus'' but is larger; the ground colour on the upperside in the male uniform ochraceous, without a preapical oblique band on the forewing; the female is more ochraceous brown than maroon, with a preapical bright ochraceous oblique band on the forewing, broader and more diffuse than in ''F. eumeus''. Underside similar to the underside in ''F. eumeus'', with the sinuous transverse dark lines and spots much as in that form, but the ground colour is slightly darker and more uniform.
[ (under ''Clerome assama'').]
Status
The species is considered rare.
Cited references
References
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assama
Butterflies of Asia
Taxa named by John O. Westwood
Butterflies described in 1858
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