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Painted Jezebel
22-Jan-2012, 06:28 PM
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?
Psyche
22-Jan-2012, 07:31 PM
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:cheers:
Painted Jezebel
22-Jan-2012, 10:35 PM
Can the female be that small? It was tiny. I have never seen an I. helicon so small. Oh well, over optermistic again.
Psyche
22-Jan-2012, 11:16 PM
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/File:ProsotasAlutaAlutaMUpUnAC1.jpg

TL Seow:cheers: