Id need help please....

[ButterflyWitch]

Thank you so much Seow Sir..

This is the upper side of No. 18,
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I clicked some more hedge blue on this trip... Please have a look

19.
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20.
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[Psyche]

18, upperside.
https://www.butterflycircle.com/atta...4&d=1744117678

The upperside matched that of the male dsf from Nan.
https://yutaka.it-n.jp/lyc4/80860010.html



19. https://www.butterflycircle.com/atta...7&d=1744118185
Male Celastrina lavendularis.
Note HW spot 7 is large and dark, as dark as the three sub basal spots, but darker than the rest of the postdiscal spots below it.


20. https://www.butterflycircle.com/atta...6&d=1744118125
Male C. lavendularis.
Similarly with HW spot 7 larger & darker, the spots with white halos.

All other Celastrina species have small spots, and HW spot 7 not darker than the rest.
They are C. argiolus, gigas, huegelii, hersilia and oreas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celast...sMFUpUnAC1.jpg


TL Seow: Cheers.

[ButterflyWitch]

Thank you so much sir for your valuable time & guidance...