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Neopithecops zalmora

Neopithecops zalmora, the Quaker, is a small butterfly found in South Asia and Southeast Asia that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Subspecies
The subspecies of Neopithecops zalmora are- • Neopithecops zalmora zalmora Butler, 1870 – north-east India, MyanmarNeopithecops zalmora dharma Moore, 1881 – Sri Lanka, south IndiaNeopithecops zalmora andamanus Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983 – Andamans ==Description==
Description
, near Kolkata, India Wet-season form Upperside of both sexes dark purplish brown; in the female slightly paler on the disc of the forewing. In most specimens, but not in all, the male also has the disc of the forewing similarly paler. Underside; white. Forewing: apex dusky brown, apices of veins 10, 11 and 12 with a minute black dot; no discal markings, but the discocellulars picked out with a short, very slender, obscure brown line; a postdiscal, irregular, transverse series of slender brown lunules, followed by a transverse, very slender, sinuous brown line, the white ground colour in the interspaces beyond centred by a subterminal series of transverse black spots. ==Distribution==
Distribution
India: Eastern Himalayas; Bengal: Orissa; Western Ghats; Sri Lanka; Assam; Myanmar; Tenasserim; the Andamans; extending into the Malay Peninsula. ==Food plants==
Food plants
The larvae are known to feed on Diospyros (Ebenaceae) and many species of Glycosmis (Rutaceae) including G. arborea, G. parviflora and G. pentaphylla. ==Gallery==
Gallery
Image:Quaker (Neopithecops zalmora) at Narendrapur near Kolkata W IMG 4271.jpg|Dry-season form at Narendrapur near Kolkata, West Bengal, India Image:Quaker (Neopithecops zalmora) at Narendrapur near Kolkata W IMG 4185.jpg|Dry-season form at Narendrapur near Kolkata, West Bengal Image:Quaker (Neopithecops zalmora) at Narendrapur near Kolkata W IMG 4184.jpg|Dry-season form at Narendrapur near Kolkata, West Bengal Image:NZalmora.jpg|Upperside in Malaya ==See also==
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