The Cruisers.

[Psyche]

The two species Vindula erota and dejone are often much confused.
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Vindula dejone.
FW postdiscal spots mostly striaght & equal distant from the cellend band in space 4 & 5.
HW tail long in the male.
Female white band not extending into the postdiscal lunulate spots.
https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/2847207299
https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/3912118089
https://yutaka.it-n.jp/hel/710160001.html
https://wingscales.com/Nymphalidae/V...ejone-erotella


Vindula erota.
FW postdiscal spots mostly lunulate and nearer the cellend band in space 5 than in space4.
HW tail short & triangular in the male of subspecies chersonesia.
In the male of ssp erota tail as long as in male V. dejone.
Female white band broad, extending into the post discal lunules.
https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/2847207311
https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/2847207320
https://yutaka.it-n.jp/hel/710150010.html
https://wingscales.com/Nymphalidae/V...ta-chersonesia
ssp erota Kedawi.
https://yutaka.it-n.jp/hel/710150001.html
https://wingscales.com/Nymphalidae/Vindula-erota-erota


Vindula dejone is the overwhelmingly commoner species.
V. erota is mostly montane in P. Malaysia.
In Kedawi ssp erota is found in the lowland.
There is surprisingly no observation of v. erota from Malaya proper.

V. dejone.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/257962818
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/255776714
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/244151176

V. erota Sabah.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/259837187
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/266371635

V. erota erota.
langkawi.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/183785708
Perlis.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/229213957

mis-ID.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/202255302


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