write-up for Banded Royal

[Sky Blue]

with the new +1 for SG checklist, anyone willing to spend sometime to come-up with a short write-up for the Banded Royal in our checklist?

submission open to all (of course you must at least seen how the butt looks like in the field ;-) ), just reply here so others will know if another already take up the work :cheers:

Eliotia jalindra burbona (Banded Royal) (http://www.b-pals.com/butts/spc_info.php?spc_id=938)

[Rustic]

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~EY4Y-TKNM/Sumatra97/plate1.htm

3. Eliotia jalindra burbona (Hewitson, 1878)♂ ヤリンドラカワセミフタオシジミ
例のタジュ系シジミの一種。実物の色調はもう少し一様だが、雰囲気は良く出ていると思う。あの丸山氏がKu tacaneで採ってくれたヤツ。幼虫はヤドリギ類を食べる。分布は広く、インドからスンダランド、フィリ ピン。

Google translated: "3. Eliotia jalindra burbona (Hewitson, 1878) XXMAL one kind of [tajiyu] corbicula of [yarindorakawasemihutaoshijimi] example. But the color tone of the real thing already a little evenness, as for atmosphere you think that it has come out well. The person whom that Maruyama takes with Kutacane. The larva eats [yadorigi]. Distribution to be wide, from India [sundarando], the Philippines. "

http://www.hkls.org/news-3record.html

Eliotia spp.

According to AFCD, an Eliotia spp. (family Lycaenidae) was photographed by Kai Ma in June this year at Tai Po Kau Nature Reserve. So far, six Eliotia spp. are described and they are all found in the Philippines (with Philippine origin), five are endemics. The most recent described species is Eliotia australis Schröder & Treadaway, 1990 and the genus Eliotia was only introduced in 1978 by Hayashi.

The only one which has a wider distribution (other than the Philippines, it also appears in Java, India, Thailand, East and West Malayisa ....) is Eliotia jalindra Horsfield, 1829. However, the one photographed may or may not be Eliotia jalindra because it is impossible to identify this species by a photograph. To check out the photos of various Eliotia species - a Synonymic List of Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) from the Philippines maintained by Yusuke Takanami & Yasuo Seki. (please note that Eliotia is treated as Rachana Eliot, 1978 here)

C&P4 - pp315.

Genus Eliotia Hayashi

...
Forewing with eleven veins; hindwing with the tail at vein 1b ciliate throughout on both sides and not markedly longer than the tail at vein 2. Secondary sexual characters may be present or absent in males. ... The genus is represented on the Asiatic mainland and in Sundaland by a single species, but there are several species in the Phillipines.

E. jalindra burbona (Hewitson) is deep shining blue in the male, with comparatively narrow black distal borders, and there is an apparently visual brand of differently coloured and more densly packed scales at the forewing cell end. The female is brown above, with the usual black spots at the hindwing tornus and in space 2 surmounted by a narrow bluish grey arae. The underside is white, with a broad pale purple brown distal border, of which the inner half is more deeply coloured. ...

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Summarized (Commander): The species was last seen in Chestnut Ave, and has not been seen for almost a decade.