Id help please

[ButterflyWitch]

Good evening Dr. Seow Sir, I hope you are healthy & good.....
All these individuals are photographed in Tripura, Northeast India...
Sir,please help me confirm identification of these following species...
Thank you in advance...

1. Rapala tara?

Rapala tara.jpg

2. Rapala scintilla?

scintilla.jpg

3. Rapala sp.?

rapala.jpg

rapala open.jpg

4. Rapala sp.?

rapala sp..jpg

5. Rapala sp.?

rapala sp..jpg

6. Heliophorus indicus?

sapphire under.jpg

sapphire.jpg

7. Tajuria jehana?

Plains blue royall.jpg

Plains blue royal openn.jpg

8. Dacalana penicilligera or cotys??

royal.jpg

9. Jamides elpis?

jamides.jpg

elpis open.jpg

10. Jamides caerulea?

royal c.jpg

11. Lestranicus transpectus?

white banded hedge blue.jpg

12.

hedge 1.jpg

hedge open 1.jpg

13.

hedge 2.jpg

hedge open 2.jpg

[Nawab]

2. Rapala manea
3. R. damona female?
12. Acytolepis puspa
13. Lestranicus transpectus

[Psyche]

The Rapala species in India are more confusingly variable than in SE Asia.


Species in which the HW postdiscal band is domed or arched in space 1b & postdiscal band is narrow ,almost linear.
They include R. dieneces, suffusa ,damona & tara.

R. dieneces Male UpH with costal area & cell black.
Underside generally lighter ochreous to brownish. FW band mostly straight/slightly curved ;HW orange crown defined by a dark line but often not distinct nor confined to space 2 ( ie. spreadout beyond space 2).
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp...apala-dieneces
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Nq8JtCdenz...rlet+Flash.jpg
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NY0ysDNal...0/DSC_7326.JPG
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fRiMJFVI6...0/IMG_0108.JPG

R. suffusa FW upperside red patch with diffuse border & suffused brown;'
Underside more yellow ; FW postdiscal band always curved in ;HW orange crown absent, being yellow.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp...Rapala-suffusa
https://live.staticflickr.com/5524/3...ac71f954_b.jpg
Singapore males.
https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7376/9...452d3eda_b.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4188/3...7742bda1_c.jpg
Singapore females.
https://wanderingbutterflyeffect.fil...used-flash.jpg
https://a4.pbase.com/g9/25/686825/2/...5.sRe8z1wO.jpg

R. damona ;UpH red covers the costal area .
Underside more orange brown ;FW band always curved in;' HW orange defined by black line
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/#!.../Rapala-damona
Singapore male.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4600/...0662737f_c.jpg
Probable female Singapore.
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-66Xxi-yYP...ash-SunnyC.png

R. tara Underside strongly yellow ; UnH postdiscal band completely dislocated in space 2, 3, 4, & 5.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp/2913/Rapala-tara


1 & 3 are female Rapala suffusa.
4 is likely female Rapala dieneces.

[Psyche]

Species in which the UnH postdiscal band is straight & at a a slanted position.
The orange crown is demarcated by a black line; the postdiscal band is broader.

Rapala iarbus.Upperside red/orange.
Underside paler grey, may be silvery grey ;cilia orange in fresh specimen.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/#!.../Rapala-iarbus

Rapala manea ]Upperside blueshot on both wings; wings broader.
Underside browner ;cilia brown. UnH band & cellend bar typically well-separated.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/#!...4/Rapala-manea

Rapala scintilla; Upperside blue shot on the HW.
Underside brownish-grey with a slight greenish tinge.
UnF band often angled at around vein 4 or 5. HW band & cellend bar close (male), almost touching.
http://yutaka.it-n.jp/lyc4/84070001.html
Male Thailand.
https://wingscales.com/content/record/3142-1-1ffc5.jpg

R. varuna.
Underside bands broad & doublesided white-edged, touching cellend bar on HW ;tornal black spot typically round.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/#!.../Rapala-varuna


2. looks closer to R. manea.

5 should be R. iarbus.

[Psyche]

6. should be correct as Heliophorus indicus.

Verifiable H indicus male have no red marks on FW & HW with short series of marginal lunules.
UnH white shadings in space 3,4 & 5.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...0f0621a7-1.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...0d3d742a-1.jpg

https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...d5fb02b1-3.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...d5fb02b1-2.jpg


Verifiable H. epicles male often have orange on FW & typically longer series of marginal red.
UnH white shading in space 3,4 & 5 less.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...unte_ah962.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...unte_ah963.jpg

https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...0b923e09-1.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...1d00d0d2-1.jpg

[Psyche]

7 Pratapa deva.
The upperside have the HW blue greenish & different from the FW. HW black spot more rounded.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp/711/Pratapa-deva

[Psyche]

9 Dacalana penicilligera


The white band in D. cotys is always wide.
http://yutaka.it-n.jp/lyc4/83230001.html
https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/D...Un_486_AC1.jpg


The white band in D. penicilligera is always narrown.
On the FW the white band widens slightly at the costa.
See field shot at bottom of link.
http://yutaka.it-n.jp/lyc4/83210001.html

[Psyche]

9 & 10.
Both are Jamides elpis.
The upperside light blue immediately IDed it as J. elpis.

J. alecto has broad white striae on the FW.& black spots on UpH.
https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/J...oMFUpUnAC1.jpg

J. elpis typically have narrow markins & upperside completely pale blue.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/me...97cf3608-2.jpg

J. caeruleus have moerate shiny blue upperside & underside dark shaded.
Thelast stria pn the FW postdiscal band hangs free.
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q2_kLPWxV...0/DSC_0726.JPG
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rzo8wjfyC..._male_02_c.jpg
female.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rzo8wjfyC...emale_01_c.jpg

[Psyche]

11 & 13.
Lestranicus transpectus.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp...us-transpectus

[Psyche]

12. Acytolepis puspa.

A tiny spot at the base of HW space 7 IDed Acytolepis.
The upperside is that of A. puspa.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/#!...ytolepis-puspa


https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/#!...olepis-lilacea
http://yutaka.it-n.jp/lyc4/80840001.html


TL Seow: Cheers.