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Neptis ilira

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Neptis ilira
Neptis ilira in Seitz (a)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Neptis
Species:
N. ilira
Binomial name
Neptis ilira
Kheil, 1884[1]

Neptis ilira is an Indomalayan butterfly of the family Nymphalidae first described by Napoleon Manuel Kheil in 1884.

Subspecies

  • N. i. ilira Nias pure white subapical spots on forewing; under surface darker, hindwing with violet subbasal band, forewing with similar streak in cell
  • N. i. palawanica Staudinger, 1889 Philippines (Palawan) f with larger, wedge-shaped, white subapical spots, 3 median spots on forewings and a white median band on hindwing, widening out costally, strongly tapering basally
  • N. i. cindia Eliot, 1969 northeast India to Peninsular Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo, Pulau Tioman
  • N. i. ria Eliot, 1969Java

References

  1. ^ Kheil, 1884 Zur Fauna des Indo-Malayischen Archipels. Die Rhoplalocera der Insel Nias [1-5], 6-38, 5 pls