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Cream-spotted Sailor

Neptis soma

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) karan_matalia, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in China.January 4, February 2, March 3, April 15, May 15, June 23, July 29, August 15, September 11, October 13, November 7, December 1.
China138
Taiwan Province76
Taiwan76
India49
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region24
Uttarākhand23
Nantou County21
Hualien County20
Jiangsu Province12
Arunāchal Pradesh12

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • MetamorphosisUndergoes dramatic body transformation during developmentFrom its classification
  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderButterflies and Moths · Lepidoptera
FamilyBrush-footed Butterflies · Nymphalidae
GenusTypical Sailers · Neptis

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Cream-spotted Sailor with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.