Contiguous Swift ?

[Bluebottle]

Is this Polytremis lubricans lubricans (Contiguous Swift)?

[Psyche]

It is a female skipper & the colouration does not match the Contiguous swift female which is yellow-brown. Also the pale area in space 1b is large.
Unfortunately the hindwing is photographed edge-on.
It should be a female Caltoris bromus, with 2 cell spots and typically with 2 subapical spots.

TL Seow:cheers:

[Bluebottle]

It is a female skipper & the colouration does not match the Contiguous swift female which is yellow-brown. Also the pale area in space 1b is large.
Unfortunately the hindwing is photographed edge-on.
It should be a female Caltoris bromus, with 2 cell spots and typically with 2 subapical spots.

TL Seow:cheers:
Thanks Seow for the help. Hmm.. Caltoris bromus is not in Singapore checklist. I looked through my shots and found one with hindwing partially visible. Will this be useful? I rotated it CCW for better viewing and comparison.

I google on the net and found some pictures of Caltoris bromus (mainly from HK)
http://jjh.pbase.com/g6/90/2490/2/81720370.dfEPozyO.jpg
http://www.google.com.sg/imgres?q=Caltoris+bromus&um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&sa=N&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&biw=1366&bih=649&tbm=isch&tbnid=tSubF-GXwMEOaM:&imgrefurl=http://www.hkls.org/c_bromus.htm&docid=0b7zv_VWMzXlYM&imgurl=http://www.hkls.org/images/Caltoris_bromus.jpg&w=600&h=295&ei=1pntTvTHB4zprQf67tGECQ&zoom=1
http://www.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw/~ynsu/photo/butterfly/slides/02-33-1-DSC_5316-1.html

[Psyche]

The ID has to be correct since the underside hindwing colouration is too light for the other two possibilities with 2 large cell spots, ie. C. cahira (dark chocolate) and C. brunnea(dark purple-brown).

Horace have bred the same species recently.
http://www.butterflycircle.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12189

TL Seow:cheers:

[Bluebottle]

Thank you, Seow :cheers:
This is interesting!