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  1. 06-Sep-2023, 03:24 AM #1
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    Good Evening Dr. Seow Sir....
    Is it Celatoxia marginata marginata?


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    Thank you in advance
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  2. 06-Sep-2023, 05:19 PM #2
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    It is Acytolepis puspa.

    The genera Acytolepis & Celatoxia can be confusingly similar.
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    Acytolepis puspa.
    HW with a rounded spot at the base of space 7.
    UnH with a sub=basal black spot in space 7 though this can be absent.
    http://www.butterflycircle.com/check...20blue%202.jpg
    http://www.butterflycircle.com/check...dge%20blue.jpg
    With the HW sub-basal spot in space 1b missing.
    http://www.butterflycircle.com/check...-Blue---JZ.jpg


    Celatoxia marginata.    .

    HW base of space 7 without a definite rounded spot, but the veins dark/or a sharply triangular patch.
    UnH aub-basal spot in space 1b always absent (possibly sometimes present as in A. puspa.)
    UnF spots tend to be larger & darker.
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...aMFUpUnAC1.jpg
    Thailand.
    https://thaibutterflies.com/wp-conte...arginata-1.jpg
    P. Malaysia.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celato...nsFUpUnAC1.jpg
    India.
    https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/si...1665ca98-1.jpg
    https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/si...4d3fd3-1_1.jpg
    https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/si...68123831-1.jpg
    https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/si...e49c42a5-1.jpg

    The two species seem to have been much confused.

    Also Acytolepis lilacea.
    Like A. puspa with a definite spot at the base of space 7; No sub-basal spot in space 1b; FW postdiscal spots more regular.
    https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/si...42426d-1_1.jpg
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acytol...isMUpUnAC1.jpg


    TL Seow: Cheers.
    PS. These two with a definitive rounded black spot at the base of HW space 7 cannot be Celatoxia marginata.
    They are Acytolepis puspa.
    https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/si...77548b-2_0.jpg
    https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/si...a84e12-2_1.jpg
    PS2. This male C. marginata IDed by the black triangle at the base of space 7) shows a sub-basal spot in space 1b.
    https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/si...ea9b88a8-1.jpg
    Last edited by Psyche; 07-Sep-2023 at 07:41 PM.
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  3. 11-Sep-2023, 12:44 PM #3
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    Thank you so much sir
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