''Neptis sankara'', the broad-banded 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 (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

found in the

Indomalayan realm 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 ...

Subspecies

*''Neptis sankara sankara'' *''Neptis sankara amba'' Moore, 1858 (Assam, Nepal and possibly north-eastern Burma) *''Neptis sankara peninsularis'' Eliot, 1969 (Peninsular Malaya) *''Neptis sankara yamari'' Fruhstorfer, 1908 (Sumatra (Battak Mountains)) *''Neptis sankara shirakiana'' Matsumura, 1929 (Taiwan) *''Neptis sankara antonia'' Oberthür, 1876 (western China) *''Neptis sankara guiltoides'' Tytler, 1940 (Burma, Thailand, Yunnan) *''Neptis sankara xishuanbannaensis'' Yoshino, 1997 (Yunnan)

References

sankara Butterflies of Indochina {{nymphalidae-stub