Nacaduba calauria?

[JitLeangFoo]

It was seen oviposting on Ardisia elliptica.
26940

[Psyche]

Female Nacaduba kurava.
This is rather worn.
There is a faint large costal spot above the mid-cell band.

Female N. kurava.
FW postdiscal band almost always straight & entire.
Submarginal spots are typically large & rounded.
An inner costal spot is present but in this individual is rather faint.
Examples.
http://www.butterflycircle.com/checklist/mugshots/Nacaduba%20kurava%20nemana/NK_female_01.jpg
http://www.butterflycircle.com/checklist/mugshots/Nacaduba%20kurava%20nemana/NK_female_02.jpg
https://wanderingbutterflyeffect.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/6a0100a801ee89000e00fad6b787da0005.jpg
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/851/28952477267_31311372ec_c.jpg

Female N. calauria.
Inner costal spot above midcell band always present.
FW postdiscal band almost always straight & entire.
FW submarginal spots 4 & 5 with straight sides 7 pointed tip.
Female-right.
https://www.butterflycircle.com/checklist/mugshots/Nacaduba%20berenice%20icena/june%2014%20mating%20nacaduba%20berenic%20-%20Ellen%20Tan.JPG
http://www.butterflycircle.com/checklist/mugshots/Nacaduba%20calauria%20malayica/Nacaduba-calauria-malayica---2--.jpg


Female Nacaduba berenice.
Innewr costal spot always present.
FW submarginal spots variable large or narrow ,rounded or pointed.
FW postdiscal band almost always broken or variously crooked or distorted.
http://www.butterflycircle.com/checklist/mugshots/Nacaduba%20calauria%20malayica/Nacaduba-calauria-malayica-(Female)-...-Sunny-Chir.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/2/1740/42819678991_fbb82f00d2_b.jpg


Female N. beroe.
FW without the inner costal spot above the midcell band.
Submarginal spots may be broad or narrow.
FW postdiscal band almost invariably dislocated .

Female with a mark where the inner costal spot would be.
http://www.butterflycircle.com/checklist/mugshots/Nacaduba%20beroe%20neon/Sunny-Chir---EOS-1D-Mark-III--13_08_2011--0115_1-copy-4.jpg

Female with the FW postdiscal spots unevenly set, staggered, like I. helicon.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6y12N-hHplc/T0jN0b3KXKI/AAAAAAAAHCg/iwa1fh16g7E/s1600/PointedLineBlue-HoraceT2.jpg


Female Ionolyce helicon.
FW without the inner costal spot as in N. beroe.
FW postdiscal band always with the spots irregualrly arranged, staggered.
FW with very rounded margin & HW narrow & triangular giving a distorted shape at rest.
https://singapore.biodiversity.online/images/speciesImages/medium/7f3ffca4-c6e9-78f5-aeaf-d4b97e9dfaa1.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_tCoAYTboNg/UKjT1dUbUHI/AAAAAAAAHS4/um95Y_-F404/s1600/HFH0261+Pointed+Line+Blue+(female).jpg
http://www.samuibutterflies.com/insects/butterflies/lycaenidae/ionolyceheliconmerguiana/


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