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Parnara.

Antennae short with the clubs very stubby, thick.
UnH without a cellspot or sometimes a diffuse one at the cellend.
FW subapical spots with spots 6 & 7in line & 8 slightly out or all more or less in line.
UnH postdiscal spots 2 to 4 generally in a series , in some, nearly a straight line.


Parnara bada.
UpF without cellspot. Spot 3 quadrate, equal distance from spots 2 & 4.
UnH postdiscal spots small separate & irregularly arranged.
Very variable. Spots may be reduced.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/si...22e9975d-2.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/si...22e9975d-1.jpg

https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/si...444182f7-2.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/si...444182f7-1.jpg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jkadavoor/5484338081/
https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/P...W_IMG_9229.jpg

Taiwan, Singapore, P. Malaysia.
http://dearlep.tw/species.html?namecode=345485
http://static.inaturalist.org/photos/2464963/large.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r10tmE1ODK...rnara+bada.jpg

http://yutaka.it-n.jp/hes/93050001.html



Parnara ganga.
FW usually without a cellspot; sometimes a lower cellspot is present.
UpF spot 3 more oblong, & nearer spot 2 than 4 in the correct perspective.
UnH with postdiscal spots large close together , arranged irregularly.
UnH almost always without a spot 6.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._butterfly.jpg
http://www.flutters.org/home/photoga...isepereira.jpg
http://butterfliesvietnam.blogspot.c...tal-swift.html
https://thaibutterflies.com/wp-conte...a-apostata.jpg

http://yutaka.it-n.jp/hes/93040001.html


The next two species have the HW spots arranged more in a straight line like a step ladder.
The UnH spots are distinctly whiter.


Parnara guttata mangala
FW with two cellspot but the lower one often reduced or missing.Upper one often large.
UnH spots in a stepladder arrangement; spot 6 is typically absent.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/si...21f48ec0-1.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/si...21f48ec0-2.jpg

https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/si...c2124673-2.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/si...c2124673-1.jpg


Parnara apostata debdasi.
UpF without cellspot (rarely a small lower one.). Ground dark.
UnH spots in a straight line can also be slightly crooked.
HW spot 6 usually present.
Elliot & Chiba in their revision of Parnara shows six specimens, 3 from Nepal, one each from Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo & Philippines.
They all have large spots some even overlapping on the FW.
P. Malaysia. Ssp. apostata.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JvGvOpLy-c...0/DSC_0328.JPG
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R1LW7DbcOy...0/DSC_0338.JPG
Java. ? ssp apostata.
https://www.jungledragon.com/image/1..._apostata.html

This have totally no FW cellspot & should be P. apostata.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/si...7db9fa9e77.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/si...7db90205e8.jpg

I believed all these are P. bada. They totally do not match the specimens provided by Chiba & Elliot.
http://yutaka.it-n.jp/hes/93020001.html