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Chestnut-streaked Sailer

Neptis jumbah

Classification

Class
Insecta

Neptis jumbah, the chestnut-streaked sailer, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in South Asia. Description The 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 hindwing; the white markings suffused with very pale bluish green; the posterior two spots of the discal series on the forewing subequal; the postdiscal macular band on the hindwing with a tendency to obsolescence, varying from a…

Distribution

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