Leafwing butterfly resting
Doleschallia bisaltide, commonly known as the autumn leaf, is a nymphalid butterfly found in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australasia. In Australia they are also known as leafwing. The underside very variable, closely resembling a dry leaf. No two specimens are ever alike. The ground colour varies from reddish to dark greenish brown with irrorations of greyish and black scales; apex of the forewing and the terminal margin posteriorly of the hindwing more or less lilacine; forewings and hindwings crossed by a dark narrow discal fascia, generally bordered on the inner side by a greyish line; this fascia bent inwards at right angles above vein 6 of the forewing and in most specimens, bordered internally by a diffuse pale patch and externally by an oblique whitish mark, beyond which is a subcostal white spot, followed by a transverse sinuous postdiscal series of obscure ocelli crossing both wings, each ocellus centred by a minute dot, white on the fore, black on the hindwing.
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Location: RHS Wisley Surrey UK
Photo credit: © Niall Ferguson / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: asia, australia, autumn, bisaltide, butterfly, doleschallia, insect, leaf, leafwing, nymphalid, southeast
