Aaron, Dr Seow, I'm going through some Hesperiids from my collection and would very much appreciate your opinions on them.
Here we go: starting with some male Telicota. I have images of a few females but I understand that ID'ing them just by photos will be challenging and never absolute.
For each Telicota, I am 100% certain that I am presenting dorsal and ventral views of the same individuals.
1) Telicota colon stinga
- upF post-discal band continued distad by yellow streaks along the veins. In this individual, they are just shy of the termen
- un gound colour (from what I saw) ocherous yellow-orange
2) Telicota linna
- Stigma in the centre of the black discal fascia
- upF base of space 2 black with no yellow
- upH yellow post-discal band barely continued beyond vein 6
- un ground colour (from what I saw) ocherous yellow
3) Likely to be Telicota besta bina - images of the stigma will be useful in future comparisons.
- upF base of space 2 orange
- upH post-discal band continued beyond vein 6
- ground colour (from what I saw) no greenish tinge, uniformly - and rather glowing - orange
The only thing holding me back is the placement of the stigma, which is closer to the inner edge of the black discal fascia. If one follows this feature, it can only be T. besta. Yet, the pure orange colour is quite clear in my memory.
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