Chiang Dao, (Northern Thailand) March 2015

[Angiud]

The Indian Orange Albatross - Appias galba


The Common Guava Blue - Virachola isocrates


The Large Oakblue - Arhopala amantes amatrix


The Grey Tinsel - Catapaecilma major albicans


The Saffron - Mota massyla

[Peacock Royal]

Antonio, very nice shot of a pristine Saffron - I was besides Chng saw it but didn't have the chance to fire off any shot.

Let me continue with some other shots taken at Chiang Dao

9. Neptis nashona aagaardi (The Long-stick Sailor)?


10. Yerbury's Sailor (Neptis yerburii pandoces)


11.Plain Sailor (Neptis cartica burmana)?


12. Spotted Palmfly (Elymnias malelas malelas)


13. Which Arhopala sp ?


14 and 15 : Cream Spotted Sailor (Neptis soma shania)


15.

[Psyche]

Post 12.

No. 9 & 11 as it is.
No. 13 Arhopala alax.
http://www.samuibutterflies.com/expe.../arhopalaalax/

14 & 15. Phaedyma columella martabana.
http://yutaka.it-n.jp/lim1/720470010.html
http://yutaka.it-n.jp/lim1/720180010.html

TL Seow :Cheers.

[Peacock Royal]

Thanks Dr Seow

16. Suffused Flash (Rapala suffusa suffusa)


17. Copper Flash (Rapala pheretima petosiris)


18. Nacaduba angusta albida


19. Nacaduba sp ??


20. Nacaduba sp?


21. Cigaritis maximus (The Karen Silverline)


22. Ypthima sp ?

[Psyche]

19 Nacaduba pactolus continentalis.
Only other 4-line blue without dark striae in band in which tornal black spot has metallic blue scales. The other is N. angusta.
(Two other with dark striae in the bands N. pavana & russelli also have metallic blue scales in the black spot.)

20. Jamides bochus bochus.
Spike in HW space 1b indicates Jamides; FW postdiscal band dislocated at all points.

22. Likely dsf Ypthima lisandra. HW spots may be obsolete in dsf.
HW twin dark bands widely separated .
http://www.thaibugs.com/wp-content/g...20lisandra.jpg
In Y. baldus the bands on the HW are closer in the upper part.
http://www.malaeng.com/blog/wp-conte...ma-baldus1.jpg

TL Seow:Cheers.

[Psyche]

Post 12 no 10
Neptis soma shania.
The ID for N. soma states the FW submarginal spots curved in above vein 6 ie the upper three.
http://yutaka.it-n.jp/lim1/720180010.html

Neptis yerburii pandoces is now N. capnodes pandoces.
Smetacek 2011 had confirmed Eliot's suspicion that the type specimen of taxon yerburii ,a female is an extreme dsf of N. nata.
Taxon yerburii falls as a ssp of N. nata.
As taxa capnodes & pandoces (formerly as ssp of yerburii)have different male genitalia from N. nata, they are elevated to N. capnodes capnodes & N. capnodes pandoces.
Yutaka has follow suit.
http://www.researchgate.net/profile/...d817000000.pdf
Neptis capnodes pandoces has rather broad bands & the FW submarginals form an even curve at the top.

TL Seow :Cheers.
PS. Neptis capnodes pandoces fig. 14, , Bulletin of the British Museum. Eliot.
http://archive.org/stream/bulletinof.../n368/mode/1up

[Peacock Royal]

Thanks Dr Seow for your elaborations.

23. Golden Ace (Thoressa masoni)


24. Common-Awl-(Hasora badra badra)


25. Common Orange Awlet (Burara harisa harisa)


26. The Orange-tailed Awl (Bibasis sena)


27. Tufted Ace (Sebastonyma pudens)


28. Grey Pie Flat (Coladenia laxmi)


29. Gerosis bhagava bhagava (The Common White Flat)



30. Is this a Rapala ?