Neptis ilira

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| image = Seitz9FaunaIndoAustralicaPlate125.JPG

| image_caption = Neptis ilira in Seitz (a)

| taxon = Neptis ilira

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

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

Subspecies

  • N. i. ilira Nias pure white subapical spots on forewing; under surface darker, hindwing with violet subbasal band, forewing with similar streak in cell
  • N. i. palawanica Staudinger, 1889 Philippines (Palawan) f with larger, wedge-shaped, white subapical spots, 3 median spots on forewings and a white median band on hindwing, widening out costally, strongly tapering basally
  • N. i. cindia Eliot, 1969 northeast India to Peninsular Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo, Pulau Tioman
  • N. i. ria Eliot, 1969Java

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