Dear Dr Seow,
Pls help with the grass yellow id. Thank you very much!
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Dear Dr Seow,
Pls help with the grass yellow id. Thank you very much!
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All are Eurema hecabe.
E. hecabe lacks the identifying features in the other species.
E. brigitta.
FW without cellspot; HW with a diffuse fascia(band) running in space 4, 5, & 6, & 2 similar diffuse lunules in space 2 & 3; HW tornal margin straight.
Female HW paler.
http://www.butterflycircle.com/check...na/NBGY_02.jpg
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rzo8wjfyC...emale_01_c.jpg
Eurema sari.
FW a single cellspot & a solid squarish brown apical patch.
http://www.butterflycircle.com/check...20-%20Loke.jpg
E,simulatrix.
FW with 2 cellspots; FW apical patch broken by diffuse yellow spots.
HW postdiscal spot 7 a straight bar; always a small curve spot at the base of space 7.
http://www.butterflycircle.com/check...essa---Khe.jpg
http://www.butterflycircle.com/check...obby%20Mun.jpg
E. blanda
FW with 3 cellspot. May have apical patch resembling E. simulatrix.
HW postdiscal spot 7 short, often curved (lunulate); a small spot at the base of space 7.
https://static.inaturalist.org/photo...5460/large.jpg
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bTDVU6Dcj...Y_adult_02.jpg
E. andersonii
FW with a single cellspot .FW black border inner margins in space 2 & 3 aligned with apex.
HW postdiscal spot 7 a sinuous streak.
https://alokesahu.files.wordpress.co...7/img_3157.jpg
E. lacteola.
FW with single cellspot .HW spot 7 sinuous streak.
FW inner margins of black border in space 2 & 3 slant towards costa (as in hecabe); HW margin not angular like in hecabe.
Male is greenish yellow .Female is greenish white.
https://static.inaturalist.org/photo.../original.jpeg
https://static.inaturalist.org/photo...1/original.jpg (Doubtful)
Type specimen is a female from Singapore.
https://archive.org/details/rhopaloc...p?view=theater
E. ada.
FW with two cellspot; FW apex rounded off, the outer margin curving towards the apex.
HW postdiscal spot 7 usually sinuous.
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vbBsDHL9I...0/DSC_0032.JPG
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--5QAPFyoF...u/DSC_0110.JPG
E. hecabe
FW cellspot 2 one or more may be missing.
HW spot 7 shapeless.
HW often angular in shape.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a2Bl4GKo7...t_Bobby_01.jpg
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rzo8wjfyC...lt_khew_01.jpg
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LkCngzH43...lt_khew_03.jpg
TL Seow: Cheers.