Pantoporia sandaka,[1][2][3] the extra lascar,[4][5] is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in tropical and subtropical Asia.[5][4]

Extra lascar
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Pantoporia
Species:
P. sandaka
Binomial name
Pantoporia sandaka
(Butler, 1892)

Subspecies edit

The subspecies of Pantoporia sandaka are-[4]

  • 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 edit

The larvae feed on Acacia caesia and Dalbergia horrida. [6]

References edit

  1. ^ Butler (1892). On a collection of Lepidoptera from Sandakan, N. E. Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. p. 120.
  2. ^ Eliot, J. N. (1959). "New or little known Butterflies from Malaya". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology. 7 (8): 373–374. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  3. ^ Eliot, J. N. (1969). "An analysis of the Eurasian and Australian Neptini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology. Suppl.15: 35. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  4. ^ a b c Savela, Markku. "Pantoporia sandaka (Butler, 1892)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  5. ^ a b Varshney, R.K.; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. p. 195. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.
  6. ^ Ravikanthachari Nitin; V.C. Balakrishnan; Paresh V. Churi; S. Kalesh; Satya Prakash; Krushnamegh Kunte (2018-04-10). "Larval host plants of the buterfies of the Western Ghats, India". Journal of Threatened Taxa. 10 (4): 11518. doi:10.11609/jott.3104.10.4.11495-11550.