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Dear Dr Seow,
Can i ask for your help with the following ID ? Location : West Sumatra - Indonesia.
These are 3 different sightings, but they look very similar so I think they are the same species.
Thanks for your help.
Nad
1)
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2)
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3)
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The antennal club is rounded at the end without an apiculus , the extended tip.
This identifies it at once as Taractrocera.
Pic 1 is male from the abdominal end .
Pix 2 & 3 are females.
There are only a few species.
The male of T. archias & nigrolimbatus have continuous conjoined FW banding.
T. ardonia have pale spots & a large rounded head of the HW band.
This leaves T. luzonensis (formerly as T. ziclea)
The Sumatran ssp tissara have narrower markings.
ID: Taractrocera luzonensis tissara.
T. luzonensis luzonensis in the Philippines for comparison.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/akhombre/32781151906
https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/2024216002
T. luzonensis zenia P. Thailand.
http://yutaka.it-n.jp/npict15c/92600010_n001.jpg
TL Seow: Cheers.
Thanks a lot Dr Seow for all these details.
Cheers from Sumatra