Neptis sankara

Neptis sankara
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Neptis
Species:	N. sankara
Binomial name
	Neptis sankara; (Kollar, [1844])
Synonyms
	Limenitis sankara Kollar, [1844]; Neptis amba Moore, 1858; Neptis quilta Swinhoe, 1897; Limenitis antonia Oberthür, 1876;

Neptis sankara, the broad-banded sailer, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm.

At the Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India

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)

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