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• small or medium butterflies (size 2, 3, 4)
• underside/forewing : fawn with one ocellus at the apex [sometimes small or double]
• underside/hindwing : a row of ocelli [sometimes hardly visible]
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upperside : fawn with dark markings or dark with fawn markings




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• small, medium or large butterflies (size 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
• underside/forewing : brown or fawn with one ocellus at the apex
• underside/hindwing : no row of ocelli [sometimes small and isolated ocelli]

• upperside : fawn with dark markings or dark with fawn markings
 




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• small or medium butterflies (size 2, 3, 4)
• upperside : dark brown with orange bands (often including black dots or ocelli)
• underside/forewing: brownish with orange bands,  with often two ocelli or dots at the apex
• underside/hindwing : often with a row of ocelli or dots

NB : in two species, the upperside and the underside are all brown with no orange bands, no other colour, no dots, no ocelli



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• small or medium butterflies (size 2, 3)
• upperside : all brown (possibly with small white spots or dark ocelli)
• underside/forewing : brown usually with some ocelli
• underside/hindwing : brown with large ocelli




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  all other butterflies that do not match the descriptions above