Neurosigma

{{Short description|Monotypic brush-footed butterfly genus}}

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{{Taxobox

| name = Panther

| image = Open Wing basking position of Neurosigma siva (Westwood,1850) – Panther (Male), Dry season form.jpg

| status =

| status_system =

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Insecta

| ordo = Lepidoptera

| familia = Nymphalidae

| genus = Neurosigma

| genus_authority = Butler, 1969

| species = N. siva

| binomial = Neurosigma siva

| binomial_authority = (Westwood, 1850)

| synonyms=

  • Neurosigma doubledayi
  • Neurosigma fraterna

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Neurosigma is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae.[http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/limenitidinae/neurosigma/ "Neurosigma Butler, [1869]"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms Its only species, Neurosigma siva, the panther or leopard, is found in Asia.

It is a large, quite unmistakable butterfly, the forewings are rounded triangular. The forewing and the inner part of the hindwing are orange with round, black spots and a black zigzag board in the outer part of the forewing. The outer part of the hindwing is black with two rows of square, whitish-yellow spots. Sometimes the base colour of the wings can be mostly white.

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