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Monotypic brush-footed butterfly genus

Panther
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Neurosigma
Butler, 1969
Species: N. siva
Binomial name
Neurosigma siva
(Westwood, 1850)
Synonyms
  • Neurosigma doubledayi
  • Neurosigma fraterna

Neurosigma is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae. 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.

References

  1. "Neurosigma Butler, [1869]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Taxon identifiers
Neurosigma siva


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