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[ButterflyWitch]

Good evening Dr. Seow Sir

This male looks very interesting...
HW band & cellend bar close in this individual...forewing band also looks angled.
Is it Rapla scintilla?

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Thank you in advance :)

[Psyche]

https://www.butterflycircle.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=28610&d=1728957761

This is a fairly typical Rapala varuna male.

The three species can be confused particularly in India where the individual variations are very wide.
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Rapala varuna.
Male upperside indigo or steely blue, no reflective blue iridescence. ; female duller.
Underside often with a purple wash & bands broad.
UnF postdiscal band broad & double white edged.
UnH postdiscal band in space 1b an arch.
Speckled patch small.
Tornal black spot often rounded & orange ring more encircling.
Postdiscal band & cellend bar very close ,often touching.
https://yutaka.it-n.jp/lyc4i/84080010.html
https://wingscales.com/Lycaenidae/Rapala-varuna-orseis


Rapala manea.
Male upperside with blue-shot patches on both FW & HW.
Female dul purple brown.
UnH may be lightly purple-washed.
UnF postdiscal band narrower & white -edged on the outside.
UnH postdiscal band in space 1b a straight slant.
UnH postdiscal band & cellend bar well separated.
Speckled patch in space 1b typically large.
https://yutaka.it-n.jp/lyc4i/84060020.html
https://wingscales.com/Lycaenidae/Rapala-manea-schistacea


Rapala scintilla.
Male upperside with only a blueshot patch on the HW.
Female largely brownish.
Underside light, ochreous/gtey, sometimes greenish.
UnF postdiscal band narrow & white-edged on the outer margin.
UnH postdiscal band & cellend bar close (near to varuna.)
Postdiscal band in space 1b more or less a straight slant (as in manea.)

Rapala scintilla is largely overlooked as it is very difficult to ID from fieldshots.
https://yutaka.it-n.jp/lyc4i/84070001.html
https://wingscales.com/Lycaenidae/Rapala-scintilla-scintilla
https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rapala_scintilla_scintilla#/media/File:ScintillaFUpUn_472_473_AC1.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RapalaScintillaMFUpUnAC1.jpg

These two observations are probably Rapala scintilla.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/196740705
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/245417131
Probable female.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/209545501


TL Seow: Cheers.

[ButterflyWitch]

Thank you so much sir...now these three species clear