Id need confirmation

[ButterflyWitch]

Good Evening Dr. Seow Sir....
Is it Celatoxia marginata marginata?


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Thank you in advance :)

[Psyche]

It is Acytolepis puspa.

The genera Acytolepis & Celatoxia can be confusingly similar.
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Acytolepis puspa.
HW with a rounded spot at the base of space 7.
UnH with a sub=basal black spot in space 7 though this can be absent.
http://www.butterflycircle.com/checklist/mugshots/Acytolepis%20puspa%20lambi/Common%20hedge%20blue%202.jpg
http://www.butterflycircle.com/checklist/mugshots/Acytolepis%20puspa%20lambi/Common%20hedge%20blue.jpg
With the HW sub-basal spot in space 1b missing.
http://www.butterflycircle.com/checklist/mugshots/Acytolepis%20puspa%20lambi/Common-Hedge-Blue---JZ.jpg


Celatoxia marginata..

HW base of space 7 without a definite rounded spot, but the veins dark/or a sharply triangular patch.
UnH aub-basal spot in space 1b always absent (possibly sometimes present as in A. puspa.)
UnF spots tend to be larger & darker.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/CelatoxiaMarginataMarginataMFUpUnAC1.jpg
Thailand.
https://thaibutterflies.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Celatoxia-marginata-1.jpg
P. Malaysia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celatoxia#/media/File:CelatoxiaMarginataSplendensFUpUnAC1.jpg
India.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sites/default/files/95_5091-701-5522c1665ca98-1.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sites/default/files/93_20363-811-59d42da4d3fd3-1_1.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sites/default/files/1611_60259-469-5ee5e68123831-1.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sites/default/files/1611_81981-682-608fce49c42a5-1.jpg

The two species seem to have been much confused.

Also Acytolepis lilacea.
Like A. puspa with a definite spot at the base of space 7; No sub-basal spot in space 1b; FW postdiscal spots more regular.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sites/default/files/184_45838-357-5d95f8842426d-1_1.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acytolepis_lilacea#/media/File:AcytolepisLilaceaIndochinensisMUpUnAC1.jpg


TL Seow: Cheers.
PS. These two with a definitive rounded black spot at the base of HW space 7 cannot be Celatoxia marginata.
They are Acytolepis puspa.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sites/default/files/118_39781-504-5cc2c0677548b-2_0.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sites/default/files/1_45637-470-5d92c75a84e12-2_1.jpg
PS2. This male C. marginata IDed by the black triangle at the base of space 7) shows a sub-basal spot in space 1b.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sites/default/files/622_44639-23-5d80dea9b88a8-1.jpg

[ButterflyWitch]

Thank you so much sir