Id help? Parnara.? Bangladesh

[Shihan]

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[Psyche]

This is either Parnara bada or P. ganga.

There is much confusion between the two species & likely intermediates occur.

Parnara bada.
UpF with spot 3 usually quadrate & midway between spot 2 & 4.
FW without a lower cellspot (except very tarely).
UnH spots tend to be small 7 well-separated.
A spot 6 may be present.


Parnara ganga.
fW spot 3 wide (elongate horizontally) and much nearer spot 2 than spot 4.
A FW lower cellspot may be present.
UnH spots larger & close ;spot 6 absent( Chiba & Eliot),but sometimes very rarely present.

The below image of a P. ganga will help in understanding the spot arrangemennt.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ6NQZYHS11jo8O1qxCmlxywtAFwaEGLB35_oxoKFgiJ 0LV1oWF0L96m70kbzUCDVFxP9Ds4m3PuPX4CnZRF2p1DgvbDC4 Qa4sE36dny6ze1q6HR2H69_Op8hUb8I-LsdVaH_jfBWqyBV8/s1600/Parnara+ganga3+%25282%2529.jpg
https://butterfliesvietnam.blogspot.com/2015/08/135-parnara-ganga-continental-swift.html



Examples of P. bada.
https://yutaka.it-n.jp/hes/93050001.html
https://www.tbn.org.tw/taxa/4b020588-a6c3-4bd1-857f-1c66527a804b?ft=datatype%3Ao
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sites/default/files/observation/Parnara%20spp._1723514816_273835.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sites/default/files/observation/Parnara%20spp._1723514815_273834.jpg

https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sites/default/files/observation/Parnara%20spp._1665192246_236654.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sites/default/files/observation/Parnara%20spp._1665192006_236670.jpg

This is looks like P. ganga, but the HW have a large spot 6 which should be absent.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sites/default/files/83_57975-80-5ec16ea52fdb6-1.jpg


Examples of Parnara ganga.
https://yutaka.it-n.jp/hes/93040001.html
https://wingscales.com/Hesperiidae/Parnara-ganga
https://butterfliesvietnam.blogspot.com/2015/08/135-parnara-ganga-continental-swift.html
Recent discovery in Kashmir.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362777795_FIRST_REPORT_OF_CONTINENTAL_SWIFT_PARNAR A_GANGA_EVANS_1937_LEPIDOPTERA_HESPERIIDAE_FROM_JA MMU_AND_KASHMIR_UNION_TERRITORY_INDIA


Overall I think it should be Parnara bada..
FW spots 2, 3, & 4 are equally well separated.



TL Seow; Cheers.

[Shihan]

Thank You very much