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Small yellow sailer
Museum specimen
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Neptis
Species:	N. miah
Binomial name
Neptis miah Moore, 1858

Neptis miah, the small yellow sailer, is a nymphalid butterfly found in India, Bhutan, Thailand, Myanmar (Burma) and Malaysia eastward to western China, Hainan and Guangdong. Seven subspecies have been identified. The Guangdong subspecies belongs to N. miah disopa Swinhoe and the Hainan subspecies is considered as N. miah nolana Druce.

The whole Neptini tribe is a difficult group and many species are alike. In fact, there may be a few unrecorded species flying in Hong Kong, which may be mistaken as the common N. hordonia or other brownish Neptis, like N. clinia Moore.

References

1. Horsfield, Thomas (1857). A Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company: By Thomas Horsfield and Frederic Moore. I. Wm. H. Allen & Company. pp. 164–165.
2. 俊彦, 片山 (2014). "インド北西部で発見されたキイロコミスジNeptis miah". Butterflies (Teinopalpus) = バタフライズ (in Japanese) (66): 56–58.

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