Bindahara phocides, the plane,[1][2] is a small butterfly found Indomalayan (including Sri Lanka, India)[1] and Australasian realms that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Forewing, a black spot at the base of the cell, a dark brown, broad, outwardly curved band with irregular ochreous edges, from the costal nervure to a little below the median vein, crossing the cell somewhat beyond its middle, with pale indications of its continuation hindwards, a pale brown line, edged on both sides with ochreous at the end of the cell; a dark brown, broad discal band, from the costa to a little below the sub-median vein, composed of conjoined squarish spots, the first four outwardly oblique, the others commencing a little inwards nearly straight down the wing, narrowing gradually hindwards; indications of a pale brown, sub-marginal, double series of lunular marks.

Antennse black, paler on the underside, with white dots; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings.

Upperside brown, with a bronzy gloss in certain lights, a pure white patch divided by the brown veins, on the lower end of the hindwing, margined outwardly with a blackish anteciliary line, containing a large black round spot at the base of the tail on the outer side and another smaller and less distinct spot on the inner side, a black spot on the anal lobe.

Underside white, bauds and spots paler than in the male, but similarly disposed.The subspecies are:[2] The larva feeds on Salacia.