Branded Evening Brown Cyllogenes suradeva is a Brown

Satyrinae

Satyrinae, the satyrines or satyrids, commonly known as the Browns, is a subfamily of the Nymphalidae . They were formerly considered a distinct family, Satyridae. This group contains nearly half of the known diversity of brush-footed butterflies...

 butterfly that is found in the Himalayas

Himalayas

The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains Sanskrit: Devanagari: हिमालय, literally "abode of snow"), usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau...

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Description

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Glossary of Lepidopteran terms

This glossary describes the terms used in the formal descriptions of insect species, jargon used mostly by professionals or entomologist....

The Branded Evening Brown is 75 to 85 mm in wingspan and broadly resembles the Melanitis

Melanitis

Melanitis is a butterfly genus from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae.-Species:*Melanitis amabilis *Melanitis ansorgei Rothschild, 1904*Melanitis atrax C. & R. Felder, 1863...

Evening Browns, with a strong purple tinge above. The upper forewing has a narrow yellow apical band which does not reach the termen. The male has a large black brand on the upper forewing at the bases of 2 to 5 and the end cell.