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DaveChiangMai
19-Sep-2017, 01:16 PM
I have been checking my Lethe images. These two attached images are from Mae Wong (w Thailand), and I am having a very hard time deciding whether they are L. sinorix ot L. kansa. Some individuals of these two species seem very difficult to separate. Comments please. I tentatively have these down as L. sinorix, but being to think they might both be L. kansa.
With thanks.

Image 1
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Image 2
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Psyche
19-Sep-2017, 08:14 PM
They are both Lethe kansa.

L. sinorix. HW eyespots sharply angled (almost 90 degree)at vein 5 ie between the upper two & lower three.
http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp/1073/Lethe-sinorix

L. kansa ;HW eyespots in a gentle curve.
http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp/2860/Lethe-kansa

TL Seow: Cheers.

DaveChiangMai
19-Sep-2017, 09:43 PM
Many thanks. Very useful pointer - not in the literature!