Owing to the number of unidentified hesperids found, I feel it is sensible to open a seperate thread for this familly, otherwise I think the main FH thread would become rather confusing, as happened with the Sulawesi trip.
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Skippers of Fraser Hill Trip- Aug 2012
Owing to the number of unidentified hesperids found, I feel it is sensible to open a seperate thread for this familly, otherwise I think the main FH thread would become rather confusing, as happened with the Sulawesi trip.
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Chilling - Part 1
The ones I can identify!
1&2) Idmon obliquans
3&4) Odontoptilum angulatum angulatum (Chestnut Angle?) on a camouflage background!
5) Koruthaialos rubecula
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Chilling - Part 2 (Halpe)
Three Halpe species:
1&2) Possible Halpe flava?
3&4) Possible Halpe insignis?
5&6) Possible Halpe pelethronix or H. wantona?
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Chilling - Part 2 (Pithauria)
1) Pithauria marsena
2) Pithauria stramineipennis stramineipennis
3&4) Pithauria sp?
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Post 3.
1&2 Halpe toxopea.(Big upper cellspot & light yellowish band.)
3 & 4 Halpe zema (Band yellowish & tornal part narrowed & angled prominently.)
H. insignis have no band.
5 . Halpe veluvana( spot 2 & 3 yellow & widely overlapping)
6 is a different butt. with the forewing intact, probably H. pelethronix/wantona.
Post 4.
3 & 4. Upperside that of P. marsena male.
TL Seow
Last edited by Psyche; 15-Aug-2012 at 12:32 AM.
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Thank you.Originally Posted by Psyche
Post 3.
1&2 Halpe toxopea.(Big upper cellspot & light yellowish band.)
3 & 4 Halpe zema (Band yellowish & tornal part narrowed & angled prominently.)
H. insignis have no band.
5 . Halpe veluvana( spot 2 & 3 yellow & widely overlapping)
6 is a different butt. with the forewing intact, probably H. pelethronix/wantona.
Post 4.
3 & 4. Upperside that of P. marsena male.
TL Seow
re Post 3 (Halpe), I thought I would be mainly wrong, as it is 1/2 out of 3 was worse than I expected.I think I may have chosen the wrong underside for 6 (too many Halpe in the same place!). Is the one below H. veluvana? On further examination, it looks a bit more ochraceous, and it was taken immediately after the upperside shot.
re Post 4 (Pithauria), pics 3 & 4 are the same specimen, so the oddly coloured underside is still P. marsena then?
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This new pic is not H. veluvana. It is too brown . It is also H. ?pelethronix.Thank you.
re Post 3 (Halpe), I thought I would be mainly wrong, as it is 1/2 out of 3 was worse than I expected.
re Post 4 (Pithauria), pics 3 & 4 are the same specimen, so the oddly coloured underside is still P. marsena then?
The post 3 pic 5 have both forewings torn.
re Post 4 pic 3, the spots seem to have been abraded off . I can just made out a series of faint marks.
TL Seow
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Thank you. Very annoyingly, I appear to have missed getting the underside of H. veluvana!
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I thought I had more Hesperids than this, but here are the last two.
1&2) I suspect this is Isma iapis, but the underside black spots worry me.
3,4 &5) Which Potanthus species?
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Isma protoclea obscura.
The upperside shows the long tornal cilia of iapis/protoclea.
The underside is dark purplish; that of iapis is ochreous.
A Singaporean example.
http://www.butterflycircle.com/forum...ad.php?t=11990
Potanthus lydia fraseri.
Larger & darker than omaha; the hindwing underside have the veins barely darkened.
TL Seow
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