Subspecies in India
(1) Neptis ananta ananta Moore, [1858] – West Himalayan Yellow Sailer
(2) Neptis ananta ochracea Evans, 1924 – East Himalayan Yellow Sailer
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This species is historically known from E. China (type locality), S. China and parts of Indo-China (Thailand, Laos) (Inayoshi 2020). However, over the past 10 years, this species has been reported sporadically from Sikkim. The image published here (BOI-en521) from the Dzongu area of Sikkim shows clear similarity to the type specimen, which confirms the Indian sighting and extends the range of the species into the eastern Himalaya and India.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | |||||||||||||
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | |||||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | |||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 5 | 10 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Not known from India.
Inayoshi, Y. 2020. A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China (chiefly from Thailand, Laos and Vietnam). URL:http://yutaka.it-n.jp/.
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Neptis ananta Moore, [1858] – Yellow Sailer. In Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.12. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/neptis-ananta, accessed 2024/10/14.