Buterflies from Kerala, India

[askar]

I took photos of butteflies in Kerala, but not sure in identification, Please help

1. Neptis clinia or columella or hylas or jumbah or nata or soma?




2. Euploea sylvester or klugii or core?



3. Tagiades japetus or gana?

[Paul K]

Without seeing underside my guess it is Neptis hylas.
Euploea core.

[askar]

thank you, Paul!

[Paul K]

Tagiades I suppose is gana. Japetus doesn’t have a whitish edge of the hindwing.

[askar]

Thank you, Paul. In "i found butterflies" website www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp/934/Tagiades-japetus most of Japetus has white edge of hindwind.

[Paul K]

Sept 4, 2020 7:37:04 GMT askar said:

Thank you, Paul. In "i found butterflies" website www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp/934/Tagiades-japetus most of Japetus has white edge of hindwind.

Ah, I didn’t know that this subspecies in India has white edge.
I’m not specialist in Hesperiidae and I based on SE Asian population.
Now that may be a difficult to determinate especially with a photo only
( no specimen, no genitalia to exam ).

[askar]

thanks, Paul!

[jmg]

Useful websites on Butterflies from India :

www.ifoundbutterflies.org/home

www.guypadfield.com/speciesindia.html

www.projectnoah.org/missions/62726022

[askar]

thank you jmg, the Wikipedia article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_butterflies_of_Kerala
is very useful too, but unfortunately my experience so little as I can't to find difference between some related speces.