Ypthima pupillaris

Ypthima pupillaris, the eyed ringlet, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique.^[2] It is allied to doleta - smoke-brown; wings above with the marginal part lighter, proximally bounded by a dark line, with two fine marginal lines; forewing with a large, oval, bi-pupilled eye-spot; hindwing with an eye-spot in cellule 2 and a very small double one in 1 c. Wings beneath grey, densely striated with olive-brown, a submarginal stripe and a marginal line dark. Hindwing beneath with three eye-spots, one with double pupil in 1 c, one in 2 and a larger in 6. Central Africa. ^[3]

Ypthima pupillaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Ypthima
Species:	Y. pupillaris
Binomial name
Ypthima pupillaris Butler, 1888[1]
Synonyms
Ypthima pupillaris ab. depupillata Strand, 1909 Ypthima pupillaris ab. macrocellata Strand, 1913 Ypthima gazana van Son, 1955

The habitat consists of grassland at altitudes above 1,500 meters and woodland. Adults are on wing in June, September, October, February, March and April.

Subspecies

The species may be divided into the following subspecies:

• Ypthima pupillaris pupillaris (Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, northern Zambia, northern and eastern Zimbabwe, Mozambique)
• Ypthima pupillaris obscurata Kielland, 1982 (Ethiopia, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Tanzania, Malawi)