Curetis, one of the Curetes, guardians and nurses of the infant Zeus, whose father Cronus devour his offsprings to prevent any from taking over his place.
The bulis group.
The bulis group have fine black dots speckling the ground colour.
There four species. CURETQ.png
Curetis bulis.
Bulis, a minor character in Greek mythology.
FW postdiscal band oblique.
UnH with postdiscal spot 7 large and convex, spot 6 small and under it.
Submarginal spot 6 and 7 aligned end to end though may not be in a straight line4.
UpH black basal area in space 6 longer than 1/2 the space length.
Female black and white. https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/2847201403 https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/2847201365 https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/2847199200
Two decades ago, the late Sunny Chir have an intriguing pic of a female Curetis that is marked as in C. saronis but seem to be marked with dark specks.
Unfortunately I have not been able to trace this although I think I kept a shot of it.
A recent observation seem remarkably similar . https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/256536296 Correction: This image is actually male..
The FW band is sort of bent slightly to be parallel to the margin.
The black dotd are rather sparse but those at the bases of FW space 1b, 2-5 looks similar.
These black dots can be sparse in some cases.
eg below. https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/2847199185
This observation is almost certain to be a male Curetis sperthis.
It have the following characters.
1. The ground is finely speckled with black dots.
2. The FW band is set very close and mostly parallel to the margin.
3The HW postdiscal spots 6 & 7 are in line; likewise submarginal spots 6 & 7 are in line.
Added.
1.This looks to be a female C. sperthis.
The markings are that of the bulis group.
The FW band is parallel to the margin and the ground appeared speckled. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2400...9274846921549/
The thetis group comprise three species, C. saronis, tagalica and regula.
The species have a clear ground with lunulate postdiscal spots that runs parallel to the FW margin. Their patterns can merge into one another and can be very confusing.
All three species were recorded in Singapore .
The first two species are probably still extant. CURETIC.png
Curetis saronis.
Saronis :Greek Goddess Artemis was provided a sanctuary by King saron. In doing so she also acquired the surname Saronis.
There is great variations in the indentation of the HW band and the leg colouration.
There were past observations of individuals with black or grey banded legs.
C. saronis also have forms with very dark redbrown bands.
It is possible that crossing have results a lot of confusing forms.
Probably C. tagalica. https://blogger.googleusercontent.co...eam2-FedHo.jpg
Very likely. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/256929573
Curetis regula.
regula ; regular ,refering to the band being much less crooked.
Curetis, the enigmatic Sunbeams.
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