''Niphanda asialis'' or White-banded Pierrot is a

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 ...

in the family

Lycaenidae Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfl ...

. It was described by

Lionel de Nicéville Charles Lionel Augustus de Nicéville (1852 in Bristol – 3 December 1901 in Calcutta from malaria) was a curator at the Indian Museum in Calcutta (now Kolkata). He studied the butterflies of the Indian Subcontinent and wrote a three volume mono ...

in 1895. It is 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 ...

. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175.

Subspecies

* ''Niphanda asialis asialis'' (Sumatra, possibly Nias) * ''Niphanda asialis cyme'' Fruhstorfer, 1919 (Java) * ''Niphanda asialis marcia'' (Fawcett, 1904) (India to Peninsular Malaysia, southern Yunnan) * ''Niphanda asialis onoma'' Fruhstorfer, 1919 (Sumatra)

References

External links

''Niphanda''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' {{Taxonbar, from=Q13484752 Niphanda Butterflies described in 1895