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    Default Prosotas aluta nanda?

    A highly cropped shot of a tiny species that looked too small to be a Nacaduba sp. Unfortunately, it was in deep vegetation and quite high up, so this is the best photo I could get.

    Prosotas aluta nanda
    would be another new one for me on Samui, but everything I have read leads to me this conclusion. Have I struck lucky again?
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    It is the female I. helicon.Postdiscal band broken into 4 spots
    In P aluta the forewing postdiscal band is fairly straight. & only the lowest spot is shifted inwards.

    TL Seow

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    Can the female be that small? It was tiny. I have never seen an I. helicon so small. Oh well, over optermistic again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Painted Jezebel View Post
    Can the female be that small? It was tiny. I have never seen an I. helicon so small. Oh well, over optermistic again.
    Not sure about size. The other point is that the hindwing submarginal spot in space 3, just beside the big ocellus is a sharp arrowhead.
    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...taMUpUnAC1.jpg

    TL Seow

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