2020/01/14
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Hong Kong Biodiversity Database
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General Information
Lethe confusa confusa
Banded Tree Brown
Animal Group:
Butterfly
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nymphalidae
Subfamily:
Satyrinae
Other Name(s):
Lethe confusa apara
Other Common Name(s):
Common White-banded Brown
Description:
Banded Tree Brown is a common butterfly usually found in the woodland fringe. The brown wing color offers good camouflage for this woodland species. As suggested by its common name, this species has a broad white band in the fore wing and a series of submarginal eye-spots on the underside of the fore wing and hind wing. Caterpillars feed on
Capillipedium parviflorum
,
Micostegium ciliatum
,
Miscanthus floridulus
. Wingspan ranges from 50 to 55mm. On flight throughout the whole year.
Conservation Status
AFCD Assessment
Common
Distribution
Distribution in Hong Kong
Widely distributed in woodland throughout Hong Kong
Global Distribution
NW & NE India, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hainan, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Indo-China, Malay peninsula, Sumatra, Java.
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References
More on Butterfly in HK
Bascombe, M.J., Johnston, G., Bascombe, F.S. 1999.
The butterflies of Hong Kong
. Academic Press.
Young, J.J., Yiu, V. 2002.
Butterfly Watching in Hong Kong
. Wan Li Book Co Ltd.
