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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:
Quite possible that it is an aberrant Nacaduba calauria malayica
:thinking: This last one looks like an ancyra blue, but the ground colour and border pattern are different.
Aaron ,
Yes , firstly the Ancyra Blue is about half the UFO's size and as you correctly said the base color is different and the wing border marking is different .
Further there are a number of differences if one scrutinize the two.
:cheers:
Yes, after close scrutiny, the two seem less alike. Thx Sunny.:grin2:
Archiving this comparison of Terry's possible Nacaduba calauria malayica for future reference.
Achiving this one here since I am looking at it..... taken in CCA way back in 11/04/07
It is a Nacaduba
The yellow on the UFO seems to extend further up, and the placements of the black spots are different.:thinking: However I cannot think of any other butt that matches. Hopefully a new butt for Singapore.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Silverstreak
Come to think of it, it does quite resemble T. inexpectata, a sp that was never recorded from sg before.
The yellow tornal markings match the description in C&P4.
Let's pray that the Butterfly Fairy will smile on me again , to have another date with a better specimen of this suspected Tajuria inexpectata and perhaps a A.blanka blanka too!!;P