Thai Mycalesis species - identification help

[AJPembo]

Dark-branded bushbrown (Mycalesis mineus): Khao Yai
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Burmese Bushbrown (Mycalesis perseoides): Khao Sok - Brown straie on forewing distinctive?
27639

Lesser Bushbrown (Mycalesis janardana sagittigera): Khao Sok
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White-bar Bushbrown (Mycalesis anaxias): Khao Yai
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[Psyche]

Mycalesis in Thailand can be very difficult as there are half a dozen species which are very similar.


12. Mycalesis perseus

White striaes(lines) around eyespots thin, not enhanced .
HW inner margins of eyespots form a deep & wide bowl like indentation.
LOwer 4 HW spots out of line.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycalesis_perseus#/media/File:Mycalesis_1_by_Kadavoor-2.jpg


2. Mycalesis mineus.
White striae around eyespots thin (as in perseus)
HW inner margins of spots form a traigular indentation, the apex in the upper 1/3.
HW lower 4 eyespots in line.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/itchydogimages/9413167681
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Close_wing_basking_of_Mycalesis_mineus_Linnae us,_1758_%E2%80%93_Dark-branded_Bushbrown_W7118.jpg

M. perseoides have heavy white striae & HW inner margins of eyespots is jagged.
(M. perseoides in Thailand is different from those further south in Malaysia & Singapore.)
http://butterfliesvietnam.blogspot.com/2015/07/35-mycalesis-mineus-dark-branded.html


3. M janardana.
Underside finely striated.

4. M. anaxias.
http://yutaka.it-n.jp/sat/40770010.html

M. anaxiodes have rounded FWs & smaller spots.
http://yutaka.it-n.jp/sat/40790001.html



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