Neptis jumbah

Neptis jumbah
Chestnut-Streaked Sailer
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.

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Description

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Male somewhat resembles Neptis columella, but differs as follows:— Upperside fuliginous black, the interspaces between the veins deeper black, very conspicuous in certain lights, particularly so between the subbasal and postdiscal markings on the hind wing ; the white markings suffused with very pale bluish green; the posterior two spots of the discal series on the fore wing subequal; the postdiscal macular band on the hind wing with a tendency to obsolescence, varying from a narrow series of white lunules to a somewhat diffuse transverse narrow pale band. On the underside the ground-colour is paler than in N. columella, the interspaces between the veins conspicuously much darker; the postdiscal and subterminal markings on both fore and hind wings diffuse and very ill-defined. N. jumbah can also be recognized by the discal transverse series of comparatively large dark brown spots.

Sketch by Robert Templeton

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

  1. ^ a b c d Bingham, C. T. 1905. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Vol. 1

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