Biology:Neptis sankara

Short description: Species of butterfly

Neptis sankara
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Neptis
Species:	N. sankara
Binomial name
Neptis sankara (Kollar, [1844])
Synonyms
Limenitis sankara Kollar, [1844] Neptis amba Moore, 1858 Neptis quilta Swinhoe, 1897 Limenitis antonia Oberthür, 1876

Neptis sankara, the broad-banded sailer, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm.

At the Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India

Subspecies

• Neptis sankara sankara
• Neptis sankara amba Moore, 1858 (Assam, Nepal and possibly north-eastern Burma)
• Neptis sankara peninsularis Eliot, 1969 (Peninsular Malaya)
• Neptis sankara yamari Fruhstorfer, 1908 (Sumatra (Battak Mountains))
• Neptis sankara shirakiana Matsumura, 1929 (Taiwan)
• Neptis sankara antonia Oberthür, 1876 (western China)
• Neptis sankara guiltoides Tytler, 1940 (Burma, Thailand, Yunnan)
• Neptis sankara xishuanbannaensis Yoshino, 1997 (Yunnan)

References

Wikidata ☰ Q6995549 entry