ID requests - Sep 3, 2024

[Psyche]

#13. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/237279351

Male Allotinus.

4 species have very similar markings

A unicolor. FW 15-16mm.
FW series of spots not dislocated in the middle.
HW spot 6 rounded & placed well inside of spot 5 & 7.
Male.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.co...kwing1-KSK.jpg


Allotinus horsfieldi FW 18-23mm.
FW postdiscal spots dislocated in the middle.
HW spot 6slightly inside of spot7.
Ground light beige with ochreous brown markings.
Male.
https://thaibutterflies.com/wp-conte...ermagnus-2.jpg


Allotinus leogoron FW 18-22mm.
Similar to A. horsfieldi.
Ground whitish with darker grey brown markings.
Male.
https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.ama...555/large.jpeg


Allotinus corbeti.FW 10-11mm.
Rounded Fws. FW band dislocated.
UnH spot 6 just about under spot 7 & may merged with it.
Female.
https://thaibutterflies.com/Butterfl...tinus-corbeti/

This looks like a male Allotinus corbeti.
A. corbeti is like the tiny grass blue Zizula hylax flitting in the garden

Both A. horsfieldi & leogoron would be nearly three times bigger.

The size is the deciding factor.