Lasiommata schakra

Lasiommata schakra, the common wall, is a species of satyrine butterfly found in South Asia.

Common wall
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Lasiommata
Species:
L. schakra
Binomial name
Lasiommata schakra
(Kollar, 1844)
Synonyms
  • Pararge schakra
  • Satyrus schakra

Description
For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.
Uppersides, male left, female right

Shows slight sexual dimorphism. Male upperside ground colour silky brown; cilia of both wings whitish. Forewing has a transverse row of four large orange spots, the apical one the largest, bearing a black, white-centred eyespot; beyond the row of orange spots a subterminal dark brown line. Hindwing uniform, but bearing a postdiscal row of from three to six black, white-centred, orange-ringed eyespots. Underside very pale greyish white; forewing: disc orange, outwardly defined by a dark line, two lines across the discoidal cell, and a sinuous discal oblique line beyond its apex not extending to the tornus, orange-brown; subterminal and terminal dark lines; a subapical eyespot, as on the upperside, but with the outer ring paler, and a much smaller ocellus beyond it towards apex of wing. Hindwing has the basal half crossed by two sinuous curved slender lines, a shorter line crossing the cell only, and another short line defining the discocellular veins, orange brown; the curved row of ocelli as on the upperside, but each ocellus with rings of pale ochraceous and of brown, alternately two of each; lastly, a subterminal and a terminal brown line. Antennae brown; head and thorax studded with long dark grey pubescence; abdomen pale brown. Sex-mark present.

Female is similar but on the upperside, the orange spot bearing the ocellus on the forewing inwardly bordered by a broad, pale, short line; the raised band of specialized scales absent.[1]

Wingspan of 56–58 mm.

Distribution

The Himalayas eastwards to Sikkim.[1]

gollark: Fascinating and yet apiological.
gollark: Incorrect. PotatOS is inevitable.
gollark: Yes, due to EXTREMELY high atmospheric bee levels.
gollark: Specifically, apiocontracognitoforms.
gollark: Well, as they say, "ignorance is bees".

References
  1. Bingham, C.T. (1905). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma Butterflies. 1 (1st ed.). London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd.
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