''Chersonesia rahria'' is an

Indomalayan The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Ind ...

butterfly Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...

of the family

Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species ha ...

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Cyrestinae Cyrestinae is a small subfamily of nymphalid brush-footed butterflies. It is considered to include only three genera – ''Marpesia'', ''Chersonesia'', and ''Cyrestis'' – distributed in the tropics.N. Wahlberg, J. Leneveu, U. Kodandaramaiah, ...

). It is found from Manipur and Naga Hills to Burma then from Borneo to Celebes."''Chersonesia'' Distant, 1883"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''

Subspecies

*''C. r. rahria'' (Peninsular Malaya, Java, Sumatra, Borneo) *''C. r. tiomana'' Pendlebury, 1933 (Pulau Tioman) *''C. r. apicusta'' Hagen, 1898 (Mentawai Islands) *''C. r. sanna'' Fruhstorfer, 1906 (Batu Island) *''C. r. celebensis'' (Rothschild, 1892) (Sulawesi) *''C. r. mangolina'' Fruhstorfer, 1899 (Sula Islands) *''C. r. banggaina'' Tsukada & Nishiyama, 1985 (Banggai)

References

Cyrestinae Butterflies described in 1858 Taxa named by Frederic Moore Butterflies of Malaysia Butterflies of Java Butterflies of Borneo Fauna of Sumatra {{Nymphalidae-stub