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Common Sailer

Neptis hylas

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8 Comments

Subin S
Subin S 10 years ago

The common sailor (Neptis hylas)? @ Adarsha and Daniele

Adarsha B S
Adarsha B S 10 years ago

Yeah..link you suggested has very different images..
I will put my spotting back to normal/unidentified...
Thank you :)

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 10 years ago

Adarsha, if you look at my link from the Indian Foundation for Butterflies you will see that yours is not the Studded Sergeant either. I would return it to the non-IDed list. Many butterflies in the Limenitidinae subfamily are quite similar :-)

Adarsha B S
Adarsha B S 10 years ago

Hi Daniele,
With respect to fourth pic, i guessed it so :) I have one similar spotting...not so much good with ID's though..
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/158...

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 10 years ago

You're welcome Subin. I suspect this is in the genus Neptis. I haven't had time to research it but I'm sure Nuwan will get there before me :-)

Subin S
Subin S 10 years ago

Thanks for the information Daniele!! Not much of an expert here.:)

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 10 years ago

Hi Subin and Adarsha! This is not Athyma asura. Athyma asura has black dots ("studs") in the inferior lower row of white markings, visible on both dorsal and vnetal views. See here: http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/#!/sp/7...

Subin S
Subin S 10 years ago

thanks again Adarsha!!

Subin S
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Subin S

Kerala, India

Spotted on Jul 18, 2013
Submitted on Jul 18, 2013

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