Recent Skipper Shots

[Psyche]

An oopsie here.
This is a Telicota. Note the short dark 3rd segment of the palpi.
It is a worn T. augias.
( Probably time to stop late night ID session. )

TL Seow

[Peacock Royal]

Too busy to do a thorough check on the ids. So I just ID them from my impressions.
1. Caltoris cormasa
2 and 3. Same specimen. The hindwing veins don't seem to be darken - so I rule out P. omaha. But which Potanthus is this ?

Seow, need to trouble you again.

[Psyche]

Too busy to do a thorough check on the ids. So I just ID them from my impressions.
1. Caltoris cormasa
2 and 3. Same specimen. The hindwing veins don't seem to be darken - so I rule out P. omaha. But which Potanthus is this ?

Seow, need to trouble you again.

No problem, Fed. I get to see variations of Potanthus.
Looks like you have a winner here.
This has to be Potanthus juno. just wish there is an upperside for confirmation.

Note the hindwing have a discrete spot in space 6 connecting the upperend of the band to the larger spot in space 7.
Previously I thought this is found only in trachala/confucius/pava together with black spottings.
This is not the case though these 3 have a rather irregular spot in space 6.
Here is Khew's pic of one with a similar spot in post 3.
http://www.butterflycircle.com/forum...ad.php?t=11665
I believed this is merely P. ganda .Post 1 should be P. confucius.

In addition your Dart have the uppermost(in space 8) of the 3 subapical spots
reduced to less than a 1/3 of the other 2. It is almost certain that on the upperside this spot will be obsolete or absent.
Here is juno for comparison.
http://media.photobucket.com/image/p...0_USM.jpg?o=39

Correction. This should be Potanthus ganda. When the spot in space 8 is reduced, it is from the inner side , and not from the outer side, as seen in the link.This individual have an aberration of the spot.
TL Seow

[Peacock Royal]

Thanks Seow

Here is another skipper shot which I took at the same location as the above P. ganda

I think this is Great Swift (Pelopidas assamensis)

[Psyche]

Thanks Seow

Here is another skipper shot which I took at the same location as the above P. ganda

I think this is Great Swift (Pelopidas assamensis)

Looks like it from the colour & spotting, but of all things the antennal tips are hiddened.

TL Seow

[Psyche]

After going through Antonio's Dart here
http://www.butterflycircle.com/forum...ad.php?t=11969
I realised that your female Telicota post 39 pic 5 is T. linna.

The distinction is in the female T. augias the veins are darkened, and in the female T. linna they are not.

TL Seow

[Psyche]

Following the discussion in Sunny's thread the Parnara ganga in post 34 should be P. bada.
http://www.butterflycircle.com/forum...d=1#post107693

TL Seow

[Peacock Royal]

Thanks Seow.

This was shot in Pulau Ubin last Saturday.
Only one shot taken, which Telicota is this ?

[Psyche]

I think you have a new species, a male Telicota ohara jix.
Notice the more prominent black spots and the dark shadings on both wings.

An example of T. besta (yellower underside than the orangey augias.)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0EK80AsaR7...r_filtered.jpg

The examples of T. ohara from HK & Taiwan are darker with darkened veins, but otherwise have similar darkenings.
http://animalsattaiwan.blogspot.com/...1_archive.html

However C&P4 shows the male underside of our local form without the darkened veins.
This matches well with C&P4 plate 59/56.

TL Seow

[Psyche]

Here is to complicate matters.

Although it does not resembles the Taiwanese/HK subspecies of T. ohara that closely, it seems to match T. bambusae from Taiwan.
http://sjl.csie.chu.edu.tw/butterfly...opic.php?t=666
http://gaga.biodiv.tw/new23/s4-23.htm

T. bambusae is a common species from India to southern China, in secondary growth areas. Its hostplants include rice, sugarcane, bamboo & maize.

A single male was recorded from Singapore in the 19th century but this was thought to be errorneous.

TL Seow