UFOsThread

A thread to archive all the UFOs .

starting with this one....

It appears to be a Nacaduba berenice icena (Rounded Six-Line Blue) , the congestion around the forewing submarginal spot and postdiscal spots on space 3&4 and missing spot at space 12( which could be aberrant) make identifying it a nitemare.

captured at TBHP on 26th Jan 09

Moving another recent UFO from its original thread to here:

Another 6 line Nacaduba , that appears to be a Rounded Six Line Blue but cannot ID for sure...

Captured at TBHP on 11 Jan 09


http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...r/IMG_8831.jpg

This appears to be a 4 line Nacaduba .... unable to peg it down to exactly which species.

The shot is one of a mating pair under investigation by Khew.

from TBHP on 11th Jan 09

http://butterflycircle.com/forums/at...1&d=1231753274

Recorded these two UFO, I am fairy certain that this is another new Nacaduba species for Singapore.


:cheers:

Sunny, can you please do one of your "negative-positive" comparison with the shots in this thread? I believe Horace had also earlier concluded that this was N. pactolus odon earlier, but we were short of voucher specimens then, other than one which I took from LFA. :gbounce:

Comparing all the shot of this species over the years , way back to shot taken west of Singapore on Dec 2005

3 Shots of this species on Southern Ridges Jan/Feb 2009 and 2 shots taken on 11th Jun 08 at CCA by Horace and Dec 2005 on Western Singapor by khew .

All major fore wing and hindwing markings appears almost identical except some slight variation.

The marking of the open wing dorsal shot of the female of #1 match nicely with C&P4 Plate 37 fig 5 of the Nacaduba pactolus odon


I am fairly certain that this is in fact the species #290 Nacaduba pactulos odon


Happy BirthDay Khew !!

A befitting birthday present for our Birthday Boy!!!

Thanks Sunny. :bsmile:

Quite definitely N. pactolus from the comparison of the earlier specimen at LFA which you took for me, and the various references. I'll cross-check with the two you got for me from Southern Ridges later when I take them off the board. :cheers:

It is a Nacaduba sp ..... but dunno what it is!:bsmile:

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1.../UFO190807.jpg

:thinking: Will have to investigate further.

:cheers:

looks like deeper investigation into the nacadubas and jamides have uncovered many pluses for the checklist!

another gap to be filled? congrats! :cheers: