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''Pantoporia sandaka'', the extra lascar, 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
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and
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Asia.


Subspecies

The subspecies of ''Pantoporia sandaka'' are- * ''Pantoporia sandaka sandaka'' Eliot, 1969 – (Peninsular Malaya, Sumatra, Bangka, Pulo Laut, Borneo) * ''Pantoporia sandaka davidsoni'' Eliot, 1969 – (India - Thailand - Hainan, Burma) * ''Pantoporia sandaka ferrari'' Eliot, 1969 – (Andaman Is.) * ''Pantoporia sandaka michaeli'' Tsukada & Kaneko, 1985


Food plants

The larvae feed on ''
Acacia caesia ''Acacia'', commonly known as the wattles or acacias, is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa and Australasia. The genus na ...
'' and ''
Dalbergia horrida ''Dalbergia horrida'' is a species of thorny liana, with the Vietnamese name ''trắc nhiều hoa'' (under the synonym ''D. multiflora'' = "many flowers") which is in the subfamily Faboideae and tribe Dalbergieae. Subspecies The Catalogue of L ...
''.


References

Pantoporia Butterflies of Asia Fauna of Pakistan Butterflies of Indochina Butterflies described in 1892 {{Limenitidinae-stub