Dr Seow, appreciate your help to ID this butterfly. Thanks.
Regards
Samuel
Dr Seow, appreciate your help to ID this butterfly. Thanks.
Regards
Samuel
Male Borbo cinnara.
Example like this can be difficult.
Noted features.
HW without a central cellspot.
Visible spots are spot 2, 3, 4 (white) & 6 (hyaline) hard to see.
Borbo cinnara can be recognised by its white face & upper chest.
Thoracic hair are more greenish.
Typically with three spots, spots 2, 3, & 6.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-f9av3xsB2G..._unds_01_c.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KaVjdL_FAM...lt_Khew_01.jpg
http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8649/...193282d096.jpg
http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/med...Saji_ad957.jpg
Pelopidas mathias. With HW cellspot; face & upper chest less white.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0EK80AsaR7...nded+Swift.jpg
Polytremis lubricans. HW without a cellspot; face & chest ochreous as the wings.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0cUzxS0FpT...us%2BSwift.jpg
TL Seow: Cheers.
PS. Parnara bada which is also found in Singapore can be confusingly similar in a worn state.
The antennae are short & stubby; the HW spots varies in number; a cellspot may be present at the lower end of the cell (different from that in Pelopidas) ;subapical spots often two.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FX2pIhZeZ4...us%2BSwift.jpg
https://static.inaturalist.org/photo...jpg?1443780933
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r10tmE1ODK...rnara+bada.jpg
Last edited by Psyche; 10-Nov-2017 at 07:47 AM. Reason: PS