Quote Originally Posted by Puffin View Post
My photo was taken without flash. Would the purple wash be obvious to the eye, or is the color only accentuated with flash? I looked at a friend's copy of Fleming, and the trogon there looked brown.

Yik
Oops here. It is A. trogon.
I have actually thought it was A. trogon much earlier when comparing the spots but got sidetracked with the purple wash feature later.
You raised a very pertinent point here.
Note without the flash the underside is quite purplebrown.

An important clue to the ID of A. trogon is that the two black spots in space 1a(tornal angle) & space 2 are quite large.
In A. aurea they are somewhat flattened.

The male A. aurea is also slightly purple-shaded, but without the strong glaze very apparent with flash in trogon.
http://www.butterflycircle.com/check...dict%20Tay.jpg
http://www.butterflycircle.org/lycae...la-aurea-3.jpg
http://th05.deviantart.net/fs71/200H...ei-d2yjr1q.jpg

Apart from the more prominent black spots the markings of A. trogon tend to be broader.
http://www.butterflycircle.com/check...20-%20Khew.jpg

TL Seow