Neptis hylas

Neptis hylas
Heptis hylas
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Neptis
Species: N. hylas
Binomial name
Neptis hylas
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms

Neptis varmona, Moore, 1872
Neptis eurynome (Westwood, 1842)

Neptis hylas, sometimes known as the Common Sailer, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in South Asia and Southeast Asia. It has a characteristic stiff gliding flight achieved by short and shallow wingbeats just above the horizontal.

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Description

A mating pair of N. hylas

Dry-season form - Upperside black, with pure white markings. Fore wing discoidal streak clavate, apically truncate, subapically either notched or sometimes indistinctly divided; triangular spot beyond broad, well-defined, acute at apex, but not elongate ; discal series of spots separate, not connate, each about twice as long as broad; postdiscal transverse series of small spots incomplete, but some are always present. Hind wing: subbasal band of even or nearly oven width ; discal and subterminal pale lines obscure; postdiscal series of spots well separated, quadrate or subquadrate, very seldom narrow. Underside from pale golden ochraceous to dark ochraceous almost chocolate ; white markings as on the upperside, but broader and defined in black. Fore wing: interspaces 1 a and 1 from base to near the apex shaded with black, some narrow transverse white markings on either side of the transverse postdiscal series of small spots. Hind wing a streak of white on costal margin at base, a more slender white streak below it; the discal and subterminal pale lines of the upperside replaced by narrow white lines with still narrower margins of black. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen black; the palpi, thorax and abdomen beneath dusky white.

Upperside on right.Underside left

Wet-season form - Differs only in the narrowness of the white markings and in the slightly darker ground-colour and broader black margins to the spots and bands on the underside.[1]

This species has been observed to make sounds whose function has not been established. [2]

Distribution

Throughout continental India; Sri Lanka; Assam ; Myanmar ; Tenasserim, extending to China and Indomalaya.

Found in Dumbara,Rathnapura,Srilanka

Life history

Larva

Race varmona = eurynome. Frederic Moore describes this from a drawing by Mr. S. N. Ward (Samuel Neville Ward) as follows :

"Head larger than anterior segment, vertex with two short pointed spines, cheeks obtusely spined; third, fourth, sixth and twelfth segments armed with a subdorsal pair of stout fleshy spiny processes, those on the fourth segment longest. Colour pale green ; face, tip of processes and segments slightly washed with pale pinkish, a slight pinkish oblique lateral fascia from anal process ; a small, dark, lateral spot on sixth segment."[1]

Pupa

"Rather short; head-piece bluntly cleft in front, vertex pointed ; thorax dorsally prominent and angular ; dorsum angular at base ; abdominal segments slightly angled dorsally; wing-cases somewhat dilated laterally. Colour pale brownish ochreous, with lateral thoracic golden spots." [1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Bingham, C. T. 1905. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Volume 1
  2. ^ Scott, F. W. 1968 Sound produced by Neptis hylas (Nymphalidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 22(4):254 PDF

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