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Tai LA
20-Jul-2017, 11:44 PM
Taken by a friend, Mr Li Zhi Guo...he doesn't know English..mandarin speaking. Posting with his permission the two butterflies for identifying. The bottom picture looks like a Charaxes sp, taken in KL's Butterfly Park. The top one was taken in Chiangrai

https://s18.postimg.org/ewuu70oqd/image.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/ewuu70oqd/)

https://s18.postimg.org/cgt0t66np/image.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/cgt0t66np/)

Psyche
21-Jul-2017, 12:43 AM
1. Herona marathus.
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cQFRqo9x9d4/V39yiqREiWI/AAAAAAAAJ0c/jBymaHl9q3g9ZK04gnLuN1yLRUeChaj9wCLcB/s1600/Herona%2Bmarathus2.jpg


2. Probably Charaxes aristogiton.
a. HW with a thin postdiscal black line .(none in the other two)
b. FW brown band extend more outside the cellend bar near the upper end (very little in the other two).

http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp/912/Charaxes-aristogiton
http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp/543/Charaxes-bernardus
http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp/648/Charaxes-kahruba


TL Seow: Cheers.
PS. There are forms of C. bernardus with the HW black line.
So probably just a form of C. bernardus.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0EK80AsaR7g/TQTJn4zT-FI/AAAAAAAADv0/CHnHRWLS8kQ/s400/DSC7719Charaxes%2Bbernardus%2Bcrepax%2528Tawny%2BR ajah%2529.jpg
http://m8.i.pbase.com/g1/25/686825/2/130066948.dPc5ZVA5.jpg

Tai LA
21-Jul-2017, 07:59 AM
Thank you Dr Seow!