P. corvus corax has not been recorded from mainland Sulawesi and Neopithecops neither.Originally Posted by Psyche
Has P. corvus corax been recorded from mainland Sulawesi?
As far as I know Neopithecops is unknown from mainland Sulawesi, only from the outlying Sula islands & Tanajampea.
I am afraid I can offer no suggestion.
The superficial features looks typically Pithecops.
Checking thru the Udara group(including some Sulawesian spp. on the net) brings no result.
TL Seow
I spent hours in afternoon reading through "The higher classification of the Lycaenidae - by J. N. Eliot" and couldn't find anything. He did not mentioned that hair brushes on legs is an important secondary character for the classification of Lycaenidae but genitalia(male and female), wing (shape, venation and pattern), head (antennae, eye, palpi and proboscis), legs (spur and esp. structures of segmented fore tarsus) and male secondary sexual characters (component of scales of varied brands, shape of androconia but these features have to examine under scanning electron microscope). The only genus has very hairy legs is Catapaecilma (C&P 4 page 295) but the wing pattern and other characters are totally different. Meantime, id as Pithecops sp. will be more appropiate.
Teo T P
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