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{{Short description|Species of butterfly}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Yellowjack sailer
| image = Close wing position of Lasippa viraja Moore, 1872 – Yellowjack Sailer WLB DSC 0056 (5) (cropped).jpg
| image_caption = Ventral View
| image2 = Open wing position of Lasippa viraja Moore, 1872 – Yellowjack Sailer WLB DSC 0056 (6) (cropped).jpg
| image2_caption = Dorsal View
| taxon = Lasippa viraja
| authority = ([[Frederic Moore|Moore]], 1872)
| synonyms = ''Neptis viraja''
}}

'''''Lasippa viraja''''', the '''yellowjack sailer''',<ref name=Smetacek/><ref name=funet/> is a species of [[Nymphalidae|nymphalid]] [[butterfly]] found in [[South Asia]].<ref name=Smetacek>{{Cite book|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287980260|title=A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India|last1=R.K.|first1=Varshney|last2=Smetacek|first2=Peter|publisher=Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi|year=2015|isbn=978-81-929826-4-9|location=New Delhi|pages=194|doi=10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164}}</ref><ref name=funet>[http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/limenitidinae/lasippa/#viraja "''Lasippa'' Moore, 1898"] at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''. Retrieved May 30, 2017.</ref><ref name=ifb>{{cite web|title=''Lasippa viraja Moore, 1872 – Yellowjack Sailer''|url=http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/#!/sp/2686/Lasippa-viraja|access-date=26 August 2017}}</ref>

==Subspecies==
The subspecies of ''Lasippa viraja'' are:<ref name=funet/><ref name=Smetacek/><ref name=ifb/>
* ''Lasippa viraja viraja'' Moore, 1872 – northeast India, Nepal, Myanmar
* ''Lasippa viraja kanara'' Evans, 1924 – south India
* ''Lasippa viraja nar de'' Nicéville, 1891 – Andamans

==Description==
Males and females upperside black; markings orange yellow. Forewing: discoidal streak very broad and long, descending a little below vein 4; a short broad band sloping obliquely outwards from middle of dorsum to beyond vein 3, another short broad and somewhat clavate (club-shaped) band sloping obliquely outwards from apical third of costa to below vein 5; beyond these, a subterminal slender line. Hindwing: a subbasal, transverse, very broad, somewhat paler yellow band; a postdiscal slightly narrower transverse band, not quite reaching the costa, anteriorly attenuate, curved slightly inwards; a very faint and ill-defined pale subterminal line. Underside dusky brownish black, the markings as on the upperside but much blurred. Forewing with two subterminal slender lines, the outer not clearly defined. Hindwing: the costa at base yellowish; discal and subterminal pale narrow bands. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen black; beneath, the palpi, thorax and abdomen greyish white, the abdomen slightly ochraceous.<ref name=bingham>{{Source-attribution|sentence=yes|{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/butterfliesvolii00bing#page/342/mode/2up/|title=Fauna of British India. Butterflies Vol. 1|last=Bingham|first=Charles Thomas|author-link=Charles Thomas Bingham|year=1905|pages=342–343}}}}</ref><ref name=MooreIndica>{{Source-attribution|sentence=yes|{{Cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103628#page/35/mode/1up|title=Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. IV|last=Moore|first=Frederic|author-link=Frederic Moore|publisher=Lovell Reeve and Co.|year=1899–1900|location=London|pages=23–25}}}}</ref>
There is very little difference between the sexes, or between the wet- and dry-seasonal broods; the latter are on the whole paler both in ground colour and markings.<ref name=bingham/>

Wingspan 56–68 mm.

==Distribution==
Sikkim; Bhutan; Bengal; Orissa; southern India; Assam; Burma and Tenasserim; Thailand; Laos.<ref name=bingham/>

==Larva==
"Feeds on the blackwood tree (''[[Dalbergia latifolia]]'') and also on ''[[Dalbergia racemosa]]'' and has similar habits to those of ''N. hordonia'', Stoll, which it resembles in form, but the head is bifid at the top, and the dorsal points are wanting, while the last-segment is produced into a single blunt point. The colour is dark greenish brown, the fore part, as in ''N. hordonia'', being much darker than the rest, but bordered with pale grey." (Davidson, Bell & Aitken)<ref name=bingham/>

This form, as recorded by Mr. Bell, feeds, like ''N. hordonia'', on decayed (not fresh) leaves.<ref name=bingham/>

==Pupa==
"Like that of ''N. hordonia'' but rather broader and the wings more evenly expanded." (Davidson, Bell & Aitken.)<ref name=bingham/>

==References==
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[[Category:Neptis]]
[[Category:Butterflies of Asia]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Frederic Moore]]
[[Category:Butterflies described in 1872]]

Lasippa viraja - Revision history

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