Aulocera padma, the great satyr, is a brown (Satyrinae) butterfly that ranges across the Himalayas to Assam, northern Burma and western China.

[1][2] The butterfly is found in the Himalayas from Shingarh, (Zhob, Safed Koh, Kurram, Gilgit, Chitral, India (Kumaon, Bhutan, Sikkim and Chumbi Valleys) eastwards across to Abor valley, north Myanmar, west China and southeast Tibet .

[4] The great satyr has a powerful graceful flight and is easily recognised on the wing.

The male is a very quarrelsome insect and will often take up a position on some rock and chase after any butterfly that comes near.The great satyr has two broods (unlike the others of its genus).

The first brood appears from the end of April to the onset of the rainy season and is very common.