Pantoporia sandaka

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
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nymphalidae
Genus:
Pantoporia
Species:
P. sandaka
Binomial name
Pantoporia sandaka
(Butler, 1892)

Subspecies

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

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

References
  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. Savela, Markku. "Pantoporia sandaka (Butler, 1892)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  5. 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.


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