Doubtful IDs from Nepal

[Nawab]

Wow, thank you sir! That really simplifies it. And A. pygmaeus will always have antenna without apiculus, right? At all instances?

[Psyche]

Wow, thank you sir! That really simplifies it. And A. pygmaeus will always have antenna without apiculus, right? At all instances?

Essentially so.
The description for A. pygmaeus read.
Antenna with the tip blunt, the club straight without a well-defined apiculus.The antenna is short, less than 1/2 the length of the costa.
Also A. pygmaeus is very small FW < 10mm . A set specimen is half the size of A. jhora.


The great difficulty is between A. jhora & dubius.
The club in jhora is more cylindrical & that in dubius more bulbous (bulging) but the difference appear slight.
eg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...fd937b4e-1.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...unte_aa892.jpg

The UnH in A. dubius is not constant.
SOme example have reduced HW spots & resembles ssp dubius.
eg. ssp impha from Thailand marked as in ssp dubius.
http://thaibutterflies.com/wp-conten...hus-dubius.jpg
Others not so.
http://yutaka.it-n.jp/hes/91110010.html


If you have specimens you could check on the antennal features.


TL Seow: Cheers.

[Nawab]

Sir, could you please look at this Rapala?

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[Psyche]

Post 75.

Very likely to be Rapala manea male.

Very worn Blue flash on lower FW, vaguely on HW.

UnH postdiscal band crooked, eliminating straight band species eg R. nissa, rectivitta, rosacea/melida.
Tornal black spot reduced as in dsf.

R. varuna have broad bands.
R. scintilla is blueshot only on HW.


https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...37aa0d9e-1.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...2af2fdd4-1.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...000cb7f6-1.jpg



TL Seow: Cheers.

[Nawab]

Thank you so much, sir. Are these Telicota bambusae or T. ohara jix?
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[Psyche]

Post 77.

They are both T. ohara jix.


T. ohara jix.
FW with male brand very narrow, straight & usually close to the outer border of the black space.
UnH band with the inner margin straight or mostly so.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/monsoo...n/photostream/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/monsoo...n/photostream/
https://thaibutterflies.com/wp-conte...ta-ohara-1.jpg


T. bambusae bambusae.
FW male brand broader & placed in the middle of the black space.
UnH band inner margin strongly notched in space 4 .
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...Saji_ad012.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...7173dd76db.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...d794d73a-1.jpg



TL Seow: Cheers.

[Nawab]

Many thanks, sir. Pseudocoladenia fatih and fatua always confuse me, some individuals are so intermediate. Would this be fatua?

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