Skippers of Fraser Hill Trip- Aug 2012

[Painted Jezebel]

Three Halpe species:

1&2) Possible Halpe flava?
3&4) Possible Halpe insignis?
5&6) Possible Halpe pelethronix or H. wantona?

[Painted Jezebel]

1) Pithauria marsena
2) Pithauria stramineipennis stramineipennis
3&4) Pithauria sp?

[Psyche]

Post 3.

1&2 Halpe toxopea.(Big upper cellspot & light yellowish band.)

3 & 4 Halpe zema (Band yellowish & tornal part narrowed & angled prominently.)
H. insignis have no band.

5 . Halpe veluvana( spot 2 & 3 yellow & widely overlapping)
6 is a different butt. with the forewing intact, probably H. pelethronix/wantona.

Post 4.
3 & 4. Upperside that of P. marsena male.

TL Seow

[Painted Jezebel]

Post 3.

1&2 Halpe toxopea.(Big upper cellspot & light yellowish band.)

3 & 4 Halpe zema (Band yellowish & tornal part narrowed & angled prominently.)
H. insignis have no band.

5 . Halpe veluvana( spot 2 & 3 yellow & widely overlapping)
6 is a different butt. with the forewing intact, probably H. pelethronix/wantona.

Post 4.
3 & 4. Upperside that of P. marsena male.

TL Seow

Thank you.

re Post 3 (Halpe), I thought I would be mainly wrong, as it is 1/2 out of 3 was worse than I expected. I think I may have chosen the wrong underside for 6 (too many Halpe in the same place!). Is the one below H. veluvana? On further examination, it looks a bit more ochraceous, and it was taken immediately after the upperside shot.

re Post 4 (Pithauria), pics 3 & 4 are the same specimen, so the oddly coloured underside is still P. marsena then?

[Psyche]

Thank you.

re Post 3 (Halpe), I thought I would be mainly wrong, as it is 1/2 out of 3 was worse than I expected. I think I may have chosen the wrong underside for 6 (too many Halpe in the same place!). Is the one below H. veluvana? On further examination, it looks a bit more ochraceous, and it was taken immediately after the upperside shot.

re Post 4 (Pithauria), pics 3 & 4 are the same specimen, so the oddly coloured underside is still P. marsena then?

This new pic is not H. veluvana. It is too brown . It is also H. ?pelethronix.
The post 3 pic 5 have both forewings torn.

re Post 4 pic 3, the spots seem to have been abraded off . I can just made out a series of faint marks.

TL Seow

[Painted Jezebel]

Thank you. Very annoyingly, I appear to have missed getting the underside of H. veluvana!

[Painted Jezebel]

I thought I had more Hesperids than this, but here are the last two.

1&2) I suspect this is Isma iapis, but the underside black spots worry me.
3,4 &5) Which Potanthus species?