Encountered this flat at MNT. Is this Tagiades ultra?
My only doubt is in the lack of white patches between dark spots at the hindwing tornal area.
Horace
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Encountered this flat at MNT. Is this Tagiades ultra?
My only doubt is in the lack of white patches between dark spots at the hindwing tornal area.
Horace
I do think that this one is Tagiades ultra
Might be a Tagiades litigiosus litigiosus (Water Snow Flat)....:jumjoy: look like species #280.
C&P 4 pg 344
Key for separation of the species of Tagiades:
para 16: Upper hindwing tonal area reaches above vein 4: marginal spots at the end of veins 1b,2 and 3 subequal,ill defined and usually conjoined .
Horace shot match Plate 53 fig 27 except for the white abdomen.
specimens IDed as Tagiades litigiosus and have white abdomen are as follows:
Tagiiades at HK site
Tagiiades litigiosus at Thaibug site
:cheers:
Thanks, Sunny for the investigating work for this other Tagiades species.
Looking at the plate for T. litigiosus at http://www.hkls.org/butt-hesperiidae.html#
it seems that only the female has this feature that the hindwing marginal spots are "fused" together. I just wonder whether the same is true for T. ultra that the two sexes have such a distinction?
Horace