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    1 Female Pantoporia hordonia.

    The two species are often much confused throughout their range.
    In Singapore the two species are more similar possibly because of some crossing.


    Pantoporia hordonia.
    Grey submarginal band wider than the orange band, which may be broken or much rduced,
    The male have a small grey speculum on the HW base which is fully hidden at rest.
    Typical male P. Malaysia.
    http://nlliew66butterflies.blogspot....-hardonia.html
    Note small HW grey speculum in set specimen.
    http://yutaka.it-n.jp/lim1/720010001.html
    Males Singapore.
    https://static.inaturalist.org/photo...381/large.jpeg
    https://static.inaturalist.org/photo...336/large.jpeg
    Females Singapore.
    https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.ama...2147/large.jpg
    https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.ama...376/large.jpeg
    https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.ama...6740/large.jpg


    Pantoporia sandaka.
    FW submarginal orange band wider than grey band ,typically intact , unbroken.
    Grey band often constrcted into beads.
    Male FW postdiscal band's foot extension along the lower margin always large.
    HW with a larger white speculum around the base which often shows as a white highlight below the FW.
    SSp davidsoni showing the white speculum.
    http://yutaka.it-n.jp/lim1/720020010.html
    Typical male P. Malaysia.
    http://nlliew66butterflies.blogspot....a-sandaka.html
    Males Singapore.
    https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rzo8wjfyC...erick_02_c.jpg
    https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.ama...2610/large.jpg
    https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.ama...753/large.jpeg
    https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.ama...9459/large.jpg
    The female can be rather confusingly similar to the female P. hordonia.
    Females Singapore.
    https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.ama...0791/large.jpg
    https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.ama...1146/large.jpg
    https://static.inaturalist.org/photo...128/large.jpeg
    Probable female P. sandaka. ( Google zoom 300X ,& the grey band can be seen to be much narrower than the black spacing.
    https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.ama...7217/large.jpg
    Last edited by Psyche; 18-Jul-2022 at 01:17 AM.

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