Dr Seow, appreciate your help to ID this butterfly. Thanks.
Samuel
Dr Seow, appreciate your help to ID this butterfly. Thanks.
Samuel
Extra spots are not uncommon.
However, this is more likely to be Ypthima baldus newboldi intermediate form.
Ypthima baldus.
Ground colour buff/ light beige brown. spots 2 & 3 in wsf large & conjoined ,in full dsf almost obsolete.
Intermediates not uncommon & should occur in Singapore from time to time.
HW spot 5 almost always much bigger than spot 6, but deviations occur.
Y. baldus Singapore.
http://www.butterflycircle.com/check...r_Bobby_02.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DN5O-c2TqL...Anthony_01.jpg
Forms with spot 6 bigger.
Yunnan
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7434/...8140939a_b.jpg
India.
http://www.learnaboutbutterflies.com...07113-001a.jpg
Ypthima horsfieldi humei.
Underside ground colour whiter & striae more contrasting;HW spot 2 & 3 usually separate, but may be large enough to touch; HW spot 5 & 6 subequal (ie varying size disparity).
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XUtnXSxzY5...ing-BobbyM.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Osc2jvSoOs...0/DSC_0144.JPG
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i-EH0OIrsJ...ldii+humei.jpg
Malaya.
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5606/1...c4c38069_b.jpg
Conflicting opinions meant this species is known as Y. nebulosa across the border in Thailand.
Y. fasciata; HW eyespots small & more in line ,with a dark connecting band; HW twin fascia strong & straight.
http://m5.i.pbase.com/g4/25/686825/2...5.gHmexCG0.jpg
TL Seow: Cheers.
Last edited by Psyche; 18-Nov-2017 at 09:37 PM.
Thanks Dr Seow.