Faunis arcesilaus, the Indian faun[1] is a butterfly found in South Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterfly family.
This butterfly may be conspecific with Faunis canens.[2]
The Indian faun ranges from Sikkim to Assam and Myanmar.[3]
The upperside of both the male and female is ochraceous, uniform in male. Apex of forewing and termen in forewings and hindwings in female slightly darker. Underside slightly ochraceous brown; subbasal and discal narrow dark fasciae crossing both forewing and hindwing, strongly curved on the latter; followed by a postdiscal line of minute yellow spots, six. on the forewing, seven on the hindwing, on the latter posteriorly abruptly curved; lastly, a sub terminal dark sinuous line. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen concolorous with the upperside of the wings.[4]
In 1957, Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth described the species as being common.[3]
. Evans . W.H. . William Harry Evans . The Identification of Indian Butterflies . 2nd . Mumbai, India . . 1932 .
. Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth . Butterflies of the Indian Region . 1957 . Bombay, India . . 978-8170192329 . 132 .
. Bingham . C.T. . Charles Thomas Bingham . . 1 . 1st . . London . 1905 . (under Clerome arcesilaus)