Neptis ilira is an Indomalayan butterfly of the family Nymphalidae first described by Napoleon Manuel Kheil in 1884.

Neptis ilira
Neptis ilira in Seitz (a)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Neptis
Species:
N. ilira
Binomial name
Neptis ilira
Kheil, 1884[1]

Subspecies edit

  • N. i. ilira Nias
  • N. i. palawanica Staudinger, 1889 Philippines (Palawan)
  • N. i. cindia Eliot, 1969 northeast India to Peninsular Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo, Pulau Tioman
  • N. i. ria Eliot, 1969Java

References edit

  1. ^ Kheil, 1884 Zur Fauna des Indo-Malayischen Archipels. Die Rhoplalocera der Insel Nias [1-5], 6-38, 5 pls