Neptis miah

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| name = Small yellow sailer

| image = NmiahDSC 2992.jpg

| image_caption = Museum specimen

| taxon = Neptis miah

| authority = Moore, 1858

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File:Open wing busking of Neptis miah Moore, 1857 – Small Yellow Sailer WLB DSC 5330.jpg

Neptis miah, the small yellow sailer, is a nymphalid butterfly found in India, Bhutan, Thailand, Myanmar (Burma) and Malaysia eastward to western China, Hainan and Guangdong.{{Cite book |last=Horsfield |first=Thomas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-o4-AAAAcAAJ |title=A Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company: By Thomas Horsfield and Frederic Moore. I |date=1857 |publisher=Wm. H. Allen & Company |pages=164–165 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=俊彦 |first=片山 |date=2014 |title=インド北西部で発見されたキイロコミスジNeptis miah |url=https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1522543655593950720 |journal=Butterflies (Teinopalpus) = バタフライズ |language=ja |issue=66 |pages=56–58}} Seven subspecies have been identified. The Guangdong subspecies belongs to N. miah disopa Swinhoe and the Hainan subspecies is considered as N. miah nolana Druce.

File:StabrobatesMiah 299.jpg

The whole Neptini tribe is a difficult group and many species are alike. In fact, there may be a few unrecorded species flying in Hong Kong, which may be mistaken as the common N. hordonia or other brownish Neptis, like N. clinia Moore.