Chersonesia Intermedia
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''Chersonesia intermedia,'' the Intermediate Maplet'','' is an
Indomalayan The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...
butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
of the family
Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a red ...
(
Cyrestinae Cyrestinae is the name of a small subfamily of nymphalid brush-footed butterflies. It is considered to include only three genera – ''Marpesia'', ''Chersonesia'', and ''Cyrestis'' – distributed in the tropics.N. Wahlberg , J. Leneveu , U. ...
). It is found from Assam to Peninsular Malaya then to Sumatra and Borneo."''Chersonesia'' Distant, 1883"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''


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Cyrestinae Butterflies described in 1895 {{Nymphalidae-stub