page_title: Neptis jumbah
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Neptis jumbah / Description
caption_attribution_description: Watercolour of Neptis jumbah (?) by Robert Templeton
context_page_description: Neptis jumbah, the chestnut-streaked sailer, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in South Asia.
context_section_description: The male somewhat resembles Neptis columella, but differs as follows: Upperside fuliginous black, the interspaces between the veins deeper black, very conspicuous in certain lights, particularly so between the subbasal and postdiscal markings on the hindwing; the white markings suffused with very pale bluish green; the posterior two spots of the discal series on the forewing subequal; the postdiscal macular band on the hindwing with a tendency to obsolescence, varying from a narrow series of white lunules to a somewhat diffuse transverse narrow pale band. On the underside the ground colour is paler than in N. columella, the interspaces between the veins conspicuously much darker; the postdiscal and subterminal markings on both forewings and hindwings diffuse and very ill-defined. N. jumbah can also be recognized by the discal transverse series of comparatively large dark brown spots.
  In the female the spots on the forewing and the subbasal band on the hindwing are comparatively broader than they are in the male; in the dry-season form of both sexes, as compared with the wet-season form, often conspicuously broader. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in N. columella.
  Wingspan 62–70 mm.
caption: Sketch by Robert Templeton
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