ID review of Heliophorus
Dear Dr. Seow, I am posting a Heliophorus sp. for ID review.
My suspect is Heliophorus moorei moorei , based on the keys provided by you in my earlier post.
The suspected keys are: outer edge of blue curve? Underside postdiscal lines straight and not wavy?
Self realizing: the tail is comparatively short than H. androcles ?
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Thank you
Cheers
It should be Heliophorus tamu kala. Correction : Heliophorus moorei tytleri . Correction 2 : H. androcles.
Of the tail, Evans mentioned only H. oda have a short ,a tooth.
The rest are considered to have a long tail of variable length.
Whether the inner margin of the black border is straight or curved is also highly variable.
Evans; taxon coruscans have been transferred from H. androcles to a ssp of H. moorei.
Following Evans.
H. moorei coruscans; FW black border inner margin 'straight'.
Brilliant meatallic green without a bronzy tint.
Kashmir to Kumaon.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...74e5650f-2.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...74e5650f-3.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...f342028b-1.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...f342028b-2.jpg
H. moorei moorei.
Brilliant metallic blue; FW blsck border inner margin curved.
Bhutan ,Sikkim.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...84a6395d-2.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...84a6395d-1.jpg
H. moorei tytleri.
Nagaland, Manipur.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...6265df22-2.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...6265df22-1.jpg
H. androcles androcles.
FW border inner margin 'straight'. Actually quite variable.
Male brilliant metallic green with a bronzy tinge.
Assam, NE India Nagaland, manipur.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...4ee41aa5-1.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...4ee41aa5-2.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...faa35a59-1.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...faa35a59-2.jpg
H. tamu tamu .
Male with powdered dark metallic scales. Specked look.
Kumaon to Sikkim & west Arunachal.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...bed9649e-1.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...9131bc5c-1.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...933f0071-3.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...933f0071-4.jpg
H. tamu kala .
Green much restricted.
NE India, Nagaland.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...99f8fbe2-1.jpg
TL Seow :Cheers.
Last edited by Psyche; 03-Jul-2021 at 09:46 AM .
Wow.. I forget to check Heliophorus tamu ..
Thank you so much for these valuable information. I often got confused with these variable Heliophorus. But I hope from next time, I will be able to id them properly.
Cheers
Correction 2
Definitely Heliophorus androcles.
I seem to have tied myself in knots here.
The shape of the markings is very variable in all the species & just comparing the patch is misleading.
Analysis.
The UpF patch is too green for H. moorei tytleri
The UnH red border's inner margin is more evenly level as in H. androcles.
H. androcles { UpF patch distinctly green.
UnH red border with the inner margins level in space 4, 5 & 6.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...83dbcd19-2.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...92903419-2.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...faa35a59-1.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...faa35a59-2.jpg
H. moorei.
UnH red border's inner margins in space 4, 5, & (6) protrude more inwards so that the inner margins are less level, more irregular .
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...47831c7e-1.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...6302ad6f-1.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...be4ddaef-1.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...be4ddaef-2.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...42c0aa55-3.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...42c0aa55-1.jpg
TL Seow: Cheers.
Whoa!!
I know they are very difficult to id, but your expert view and opinion always matters. Thank you so much for guiding so very well.
Cheers
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