Thursday, May 5, 2011

Dark Evening Brown (Melanitis phedima)

Location : Palode, Thiruvananthapuram - 05-05-2011


Kingdom:      Animalia
Phylum:          Arthropoda
Class:            Insecta
Order:            Lepidoptera
Family:           Nymphalidae
Subfamily:     Satyrinae
Genus:           Melanitis
    Species:       M. phedima

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