Quote Originally Posted by atronox View Post
Dr Seow, do you think #9 is N. pendleburyi? I chanced upon this photo by Richard recently which i'm very certain is N. pendleburyi and it looks very similar to Federick's.

What do you think?

Federick no. 9 is Nacaduba hermus for two reasons.
1. HW postdiscal & submarginal spots in space 4 & 5 very close ,almost touching.
2. HW tornal black spot with metallic scales.


N. pendleburyi & sanaya shares the following features.
HW postdiscal band & submarginal spots in separated by at least 1/2 the width of the postdiscal band.

The males of the two are seperated thus.
N. pendleburyi FW border increases at apex.
N. sanaya FW border a thread throughout.

No separation for the female.

N. sanaya almost always have a dislocation of the FW postdiscal at vein 6 (sometimes 5).

C&P4 shows a N. pendleburyi with very narrow submarginals & HW spot 6 a chevron (or arrowhead); FW band not dislocated.

I have been unable to locate previous N. pendleburyi image.
N. pendleburyi do not have HW tornal black spot with metallic scales.

N. sanaya is very variable in the separation of the HW postdiscal & submarginals.

http://www.butterflycircle.com/check...race%20tan.jpg
http://www.butterflycircle.com/check...drick%20ho.jpg
https://wingscales.com/content/record/410-1-e0bfc.jpg
https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uplo...i-LenaChow.jpg


India have neither subperusia or pendleburyi.
The metallic scalings may be meagre in some forms esp. dsf. of N hermus.

Richard's shot is hard to say, for it could also be N. sanaya or hermus though the metallic scales are just a few.
The submarginals are narrow as in pendleburyi but the HW submarginal spot 6 is not a chevron (V-shape).

I would need to locate some correct shots of N. pendleburyi for comparison,


TL Seow: Cheers.