''Neptis cartica'', the plain sailer, is a species of

nymphalid 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 ...

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprise ...

found in

South Asia South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth descr ...

."''Neptis'' Fabricius, 1807"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''

Subspecies

*''Neptis cartica cartica'' (Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, northern Burma, northern Vietnam) *''Neptis cartica burmana'' de Nicéville, 1886 (southern Burma, northern Thailand) *''Neptis cartica pagoda'' Yoshino, 1997 (Yunnan)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q6995423 cartica Butterflies of Indochina Butterflies described in 1872