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Shihan
20-Oct-2016, 04:38 AM
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Southeast Bangladesh

Psyche
20-Oct-2016, 07:52 AM
. Parnara bada .

P. ganga
HW spots yellowish/buff ,slightly irregular. always without a spot 6.
Upperside usually with a lower cellspot , sometimes none.
http://www.flutters.org/home/photogallery/plog-content/images/butterfliesbrnbspnbspnbsphesperiidae-the-skippers-br/subfamily-hesperiinae--brnbspnbspnbsp-genus-parnara--swift-/parnara-ganga-up-malabar-hills-02sep11_blaisepereira.jpg
mistaken for P. apostata.
http://wingscales.com/Hesperiidae/Parnara-apostata

P. bada .easily confused with P. ganga. HW yellowish. often irregulsr. variable, often small or reduced in number; spot 6 often present.
Upperside FW without a cellspot.
http://old.hkls.org/images/Parnara_bada.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/African_Straight_Swift_(Parnara_bada)_in_Vanasthal ipuram,_Hyderabad,_AP_W_IMG_9229.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r10tmE1ODKA/UPa4h8TT-8I/AAAAAAAAIw0/fRcHm9s-F9M/s1600/LKW+2009+parnara+bada.jpg

TL Seow: Cheers.
PS. Examples of Parnara bada from India with matching uppersides.
http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/media_images/2016/206_10166-616-56651450758f3-1.jpg
http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/media_images/2016/206_10166-616-56651450758f3-2.jpg

http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/media_images/ParnaraSp/ParnaraSp_HemantOgale_aj189.jpg
http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/media_images/ParnaraSp/ParnaraSp_HemantOgale_aj190.jpg

http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/media_images/2015/118_8102-151-55e887e5d6e2c-1.jpg
http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/media_images/2015/118_8100-146-55e8876a57ba0-1.jpg

http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/media_images/2015/164_6426-607-555b4119c8e50-1.jpg
http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/media_images/2015/164_6426-607-555b4119c8e50-2.jpg

http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/media_images/2014/160_1790-727-54775d90b8e97-2.jpg
http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/media_images/2014/160_1790-727-54775d90b8e97-2.jpg

PS2. Male Parnara ganga Vietnam ; Note underside resembles P. bada but spots larger & close ,spot 6 missing; upperside is darker.
http://butterfliesvietnam.blogspot.my/2015/08/135-parnara-ganga-continental-swift.html

Female Parnara apostata HK. missIDed. NOte spots large & white with a small spot 6; upperside very dark.
http://www.pbase.com/dancy/image/84573956
http://www.pbase.com/dancy/image/84573955