ID for Sightings at Seletar, Singapore

[JitLeangFoo]

Is this the Eurema andersonii. It has a single cell spot on the FW and a subapical streak. Unfortunately, the upper FW markings not very clear.
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[Psyche]

It is Eurema hecabe contubernalis.

E. hecabe sometimes loses one or both cell-spots.

Both E. andersoni & lacteola which have only one cellspot have the HW costal spot a sinuous streak directed to the cellend bar.
E. andersonii.
http://www.butterflycircle.com/checklist/mugshots/Eurema%20andersonii%20andersonii/Eurema%20andersonii%20andersonii%20Federick.jpg

In E. hecabe here, this spot is a blotch.
http://www.butterflycircle.com/checklist/mugshots/Eurema%20hecabe%20contubernalis/CGY%20-%20-%20%20%20%20%20%20KHEW%20SK.jpg

TL Seow:cheers:

[JitLeangFoo]

Is this a male Telicota colon stinga (Common Palm Dart)? I note the lack of spot at HW7.
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[Psyche]

It is a female Telicota.
Note the more elongate wings & bodyshape, the bulging pale abdomen with the slant cut tip.

Telicotas are very hard to ID from the underside alone.
The males can usually be ID'ed from the upperside readily enough.

Photography creates a lot of confusing colours & shadings.
The net is full of conflicting & erroneous IDs.
The same skipper taken from a different angle, lighting or camera may looks like a different species.

The main points here is the good contrast of the HW band and the paler ground colour, and the veins across the HW band are darkened.

Two species are immediately excluded. T. linna (veins nit darkened), & T. ohara (ground colour black-tinged).

Of the remaining three T. augias is more orange & the contrast of HW band & ground colour less (espcially in the male).
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Federick/media/USR/Telicotaspp_atUSROct2004.jpg.html

The 2 remaing species have the female underside more yellow/ochreius with a greenish tinge (hard to see in pix).
This renders the ground colour paler so it contrast more with the HW band.

In T. colon FW spots 4 & 5 tends to be distorted.
Spot 5 is strongly notched in the sides .
Spot 4 is like a pyramid with the top cut off.
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s237/jameschia26/IMG_5214.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0g9_fuWaZEA/TbNvlC-Tu4I/AAAAAAAAEPU/8M3OZY9DgH8/s400/DSC9806-Telicota%2Bsp.jpg

The notching of spots 4 & 5 in T. besta is much less.
http://i860.photobucket.com/albums/ab169/rustysocute123/Screenshot2012-08-05atPM034032.png
The male.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JE7UU7nA2i4/Txl0up2tHgI/AAAAAAAAFVA/Ik9u9q5jnVE/s1600/DSC4012%2BTelicota%2Bbesta%2Bbina.jpg

So this should be a female Telicota besta bina.

TL Seow:cheers:

[JitLeangFoo]

Thank you Dr Seow. This is new species recorded at the Garden.

[JitLeangFoo]

Is this the Potanthus serina (Large Dart)? It size is quite large.2307223073

[Psyche]

It is a female Cephrenes trichopepla.

On the underside HW, the black-margined lttle spot at the top of the HW band is diagnostic.
The upperside also shows the characteristic long vein-stripes (like the male T. colon).

TL Seow :Cheers.

[JitLeangFoo]

Thanks. Dr Seow.