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{{Short description|Species of butterfly}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Common banded demon
| image = Notocrypta paralysos at Kadavoor.jpg
| image_caption = Upper side
| image2 = Banded demon butterfly (Notocrypta paralysos) Bali I.jpg
| image2_caption = Underside, [[Bali]], [[Indonesia]]
| taxon = Notocrypta paralysos
| authority = ([[James Wood-Mason|Wood-Mason]] & [[Lionel de Nicéville|de Nicéville]], 1881)
}}

'''''Notocrypta paralysos''''', the '''banded demon''' or '''common banded demon''',<ref name=Smetacek/> is a [[butterfly]] belonging to the family [[Hesperiidae]] found in Sri Lanka, India, Indo-China, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra,
Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Borneo, Palawan, Philippines, Sulawesi Region, and Maluku.<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=49|doi=10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164}}</ref><ref name=SwinhoeIndica>{{Source-attribution|sentence=yes|{{Cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103495#page/216/mode/1up|title=Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X |last=Swinhoe|first=Charles|author-link=Charles Swinhoe|publisher=Lovell Reeve and Co.|year=1912–1913|location=London|pages=202}}}}</ref><ref name=watson>{{Cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/64080#page/141/mode/1up|title=Hesperiidae Indicae : being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon|last=E. Y.|first=Watson|author-link=Edward Yerbury Watson|publisher=Vest and Company|year=1891|location=Madras|pages=127}}</ref><ref>Vane-Wright, R.I, & de Jong, R. (2003). The butterflies of Sulawesi: annotated checklist for a critical island fauna. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 343, 3–267 https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/220217/ page 66</ref>

==Description==
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{{Blockquote|Male and Female. Very similar to ''[[Notocrypta feisthamelii]]'', the wings somewhat shorter and broader, the post-medial white band of the forewing very similar both above and below, but there is a small white spot opposite the cell end, towards the outer margin, and there are no sub-apical dots, and on the underside of the hindwing there is a small white spot inside the end of the cell and another below it, nearly half way between it and the outer margin, and there is a white mark on each side of the face.|author=[[Charles Swinhoe]]|source=[[Lepidoptera Indica]]. Vol. X<ref name=SwinhoeIndica/>}}

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[[Category:Butterflies of Asia]]
[[Category:Butterflies of Singapore]]
[[Category:Butterflies of Indochina]]
[[Category:Taxa named by James Wood-Mason]]


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