Triphysa phryne

Triphysa phryne (Siberian brown) is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.

(48 i) is blackish brown-grey, the wings of the male having a fine golden margin.

Between the veins on the underside there is a row of submarginal ocelli, which in the female shine through above.

From South-Eastern Russia through Transcaucasia, Armenia and Western Siberia to Kuldscha and the Altai.

Named in the Classical tradition.Phryne was an ancient Greek beauty from Thespiae