Description

• Common Name : Staff Sergeant
• Scientific Name : Athyma selenophora (Koll.)
• Family : NYMPHALIDAE
• Wingspan : 55-75mm
• Colour : Upperside dark brown, underside yellowish brown.
• Habit : A butterfly of thickly forested areas, found near streams and rivers, basks early in the morning with wings open.
  
  Photographed at Jayanty, Buxa Tiger Reserve.
• Larval Host Plants : Adina cordifolia
• Location : North Bengal