ID requested for various species
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Dear Sir/Madam,
I am sending some species images for identification purposes. All species images captured from Jayanti riverbed, Alipurduar district, State West Bengal, India. Images captured date: 6th to 8th November 2020. Please guide me along with the species ID.
For Melanitis sp., have seen upf wider yellowish-orange bar at the leading edge. The black spot also present.
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Rajib Dey
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1. Pantoporia paraka.
FW with two orange bands on the margin.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...9de9a9ab-2.jpg
2. Flos adriana.
UnH with a basal dark area & none at the HW apex.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...rkar_as920.jpg
Similar.
Flos areste.
UnH with a broad dark basal area & another at the apex.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...rkar_as921.jpg
3. Melanitis zitenius.
Underside marked with whitish spots not ocelli (ringed spots).
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...0d6a0b20-1.jpg
Similar.
M. phedima.
Underside marked with ocelli (ringed spots).
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...1a_7/ap402.jpg
Last edited by Psyche; 11-Nov-2020 at 05:06 PM .
4 & 6. Neptis clinia.
Two species are very similar.
They both have a narrow cellbar & cellend spot.
The 4 postdiscal spots are more or less rounded & equally spaced .
Neptis clinia.
The ground colour is brownish & the FW markings are sullied (dirtied) brownish.
The FW submarginal spots have an even curve at the apex.
The HW discal band often have a small triangular white spot at the base of space 3. (Seen in no. 6)
http://yutaka.it-n.jp/lim1/720120010.html
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...13aaf858-1.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...faccd39e-1.jpg
Neptis nata.
Ground darker black & FW markings more sharply defined.
FW submarginal spots slightly bent in at the apex.
HW discal white band do not incorporate a white spot at the base of space 3.
http://yutaka.it-n.jp/lim1/720190010.html
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...66ae75df-1.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...fcf7523f-1.jpg
5. Flos adriana .
HW mainly with a darker shaded basal area.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...1659aefb-1.jpg
7. Anthene emolus.
In Anthene the black spot is occassionally missing.
In Anthene emolus the HW postdiscal spots in space 2, 3, 4, & 5 are in line & joined to the 'V' spot in space 1a & 1b.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...gale_ah302.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...unte_ai912.jpg
Anthene lycaenina also present with examples in which its distinctive black spot is missing.
However, in A. lycaenina the HW postdiscal spots in space 2, 3, 4, & 5 are dislocated & have a chaotic appearance.
http://www.butterflycircle.com/newre...5104&noquote=1
https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/A...yaMUpUnAC1.jpg
TL Seow: Cheers.
Thanks for your valuable information.
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