the Red-disc Bushbrown (Mycalesis oculus) is a Satyrine

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...

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Butterfly

A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...

 found in southern India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. It is similar in markings to Mycalesis adolphei

Mycalesis adolphei

The Redeye Bushbrown Mycalesis adolphei is a species of Satyrine butterfly found in South India.-Description:Upperside dark umber-brown. Fore wing with a large, white-centred, fulvous-ringed black median ocellus and a white-centred preapical much smaller black spot...

but distinguished by the reddish band around the large apical spots on the upper forewings.

Description

Somewhat similar to Mycalesis adolphei but the eyespots on the median vein of the upper forewing much larger and encircled by a broad ring of orange-red and extending towards the costal margin (leading edge). The underside is dark reddish brown. The eyespot on the hind wing is larger than in M. adolphei. The wing expanse is about 5 to 6 cm. The species is found mainly in the hill forests of the southern Western Ghats

Western Ghats

The Western Ghats, Western Ghauts or the Sahyādri is a mountain range along the western side of India. It runs north to south along the western edge of the Deccan Plateau, and separates the plateau from a narrow coastal plain along the Arabian Sea. The Western Ghats block rainfall to the Deccan...

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