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DaveChiangMai
05-Dec-2022, 12:02 PM
This I photographed in my Chiang Mai city garden, 4 Dec 22. In 7 years of observing butterflies in the garden I have not to date ever seen a Nacaduba species.
I am undecided whether this is N. kurava or N. berenice.
Both occur in the region though the later is much scarcer.
Help with ID please. Many thanks.

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Psyche
05-Dec-2022, 11:10 PM
It is a female Nacaduba berenice aphya. (Note long labial palps of female.)

N. berenice.
FW margin rounded in male.
FW postdiscal band typically dislocated or crooked in the middle.
FW submarginal spots irregularly pointed.
Males.
https://thaibutterflies.com/Butterflies/nacaduba-berenice/
https://res.cloudinary.com/ppc1/image/upload/v1467087278/w8amvkrzo2uyq71qnhfq.jpg
Female. Cambodia.
https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/97871284/medium.jpg


Nacaduba kurava euplea.
Male FW margin straight.
FW postdiscal band typically straight & unbroken.
FW submarginal spots large with rounded margins.
Males.
https://thaibutterflies.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Nacaduba-kurava-1.jpg
https://res.cloudinary.com/ppc1/image/upload/v1467087282/alyfmiwq7yk2etgg3lhx.jpg
Female Cambodia.
https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4551/38662131756_fc92c272b1.jpg


TL Seow:Cheers.

DaveChiangMai
07-Dec-2022, 10:47 PM
Many thanks for the details and ID.