Grey pansy

The Grey pansy has pale greyish buff wings marked with dark brown lines and a row of eye-spots divided into an outer black half and an inner orange half on both wing pairs. It flies with the slow, gliding wingbeats typical of the pansy butterflies and often rests with wings held wide open in sunny spots.

Caterpillars feed on low, ground-hugging herbs in the Acanthaceae and Plantaginaceae families that grow at damp field edges and stream banks, and in some populations the larvae feed on leaves held underwater, keeping only their breathing spiracles above the surface before crawling out to pupate on land.