Neptis jumbah
Chestnut-Streaked Sailer | |
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Chestnut Streaked Sailer | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Neptis |
Species: | N. jumbah |
Binomial name | |
Neptis jumbah Moore, 1857 | |
The Chestnut-Streaked Sailer Neptis jumbah is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in South Asia.
Description
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In the female the spots on the fore wing and the subbasal band on the hind wing are comparatively broader than they are in the male; in the dry-season form of both sexes, as compared with the wet-season form, often conspicuously broader. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in N. columella.[1]
Expanse 62–70 mm.
Distribution
Southern India, in the Nilgiris and the Western Ghats. Northeast India, Myanmar and the Andaman Islands. Sri Lanka. [Specimens from the Andamans have the lilacine white terminal markings on the underside very broad and diffuse.][1]
Larva
" Somewhat fusiform, anterior and anal segments narrowed, the middle segments being thickened laterally, aimed with two dorsal, long, anteriorly-divergent fleshy processes on the fourth segment, and two shorter posteriorly-divergent similar processes on the twelfth segment, also two very short dorsal spiny tubercles on the third and sixth segments. Head cleft and pointed at the vertex. Colour brownish-purple, anal segments dark purple-brown spotted with green and bordering an oblique line extending laterally from anal spine to base of spine on fourth segment; two short, oblique, dorsal anteriorly-oblique (?) lateral streaks along middle segments." (Moore.)[1]
Pupa
"Suspended vertically; slender in the abdominal part with a sharp dorsal ridge, much stouter and broader in the thoracic region ; with wing-cases expanded laterally ; two sharp points on. the head ; colour varying from dark brown to dull white, suffused and touched at points with gold" (Davidson and Aitken[1]
References
See also
- Nymphalidae
- List of butterflies of India
- List of Butterflies of India (Nymphalidae)