Pantoporia Explained

Pantoporia is a genus of Asian butterflies sometimes called the lascars. They are predominantly with striped patterns of orange and black.

Species in the genus include:^[1]

• Pantoporia antara (Moore, 1858)
• Pantoporia assamica (Moore, 1881) – Assam lascar
• Pantoporia aurelia (Staudinger, 1886) – baby lascar
• Pantoporia bieti (Oberthür, 1894) – Tytler's lascar
• Pantoporia bruijni Oberthür^[2]
• Pantoporia consimilis (Boisduval, 1832)
• Pantoporia cyrilla (Felder & Felder, 1863)
• Pantoporia epira (Felder & Felder, 1863)
• Pantoporia dama (Moore, 1858)
• Pantoporia dindinga (Butler, 1879) – greyline lascar
• Pantoporia gordia Felder
• Pantoporia hordonia (Stoll, 1790) – common Lascar
• Pantoporia karwara Fruhstorfer – Karwar lascar
• Pantoporia mysia (Felder & Felder, 1860)
• Pantoporia sandaka (Butler, 1892) – extra lascar
• Pantoporia paraka (Butler, 1879) – Perak lascar
• Pantoporia venilia (Linnaeus, 1758) – Cape York aeroplane, black-eyed plane

External links

• Neptini taxonomic list
• Images representing Pantoporia at EOL
• Images representing Pantoporia at BOLD

Notes and References

1. http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/limenitidinae/pantoporia/ "Pantoporia Hübner, [1819]"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2011/search/all/key/pantoporia+bruijni/match/1 Pantoporia bruijni