Animish, the one from Goa is a female Elymnias caudata – Tailed Palmfly: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/425-elymnias/elymnias-caudata
and the one from the NE is a male Elymnias hypermnestra undularis – Wavy Common Palmfly: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/425-elymnias/elymnias-hypermnestra E. caudata is often considered a subspecies of hypermnestra since Evans (1932) treated it as such, and this is an arrangement that I had followed myself until recently following Gaonkar’s 1996 Western Ghats butterfly report. In some sense it does not matter right now whether you call caudata a subspecies or a species (because different books treat them differently), as long as you understand that there are these two taxonomic entities and recognize their distributions and biology. More about this will be in my upcoming Catalogue. We would love to have these images on BOI. Could we please use them? Krushnamegh. ________________________________ From: Animish Mandrekar <[email protected]> Reply-To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:28:31 -0400 To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Which Palmfly? I too have 2 palmflies. First image from North Goa and Second from Nameri Eco camp Assam. What is ID of NE butterfly? is it the same? On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Soham Pattekar <[email protected]> wrote: i guess its a pearls palm fly ! coz depicted by the white cell spot ! but the sub marginal edges resemble to common palm fly ! location where this was spotted can give a clue ! --- On Wed, 27/7/11, SHYAM GHATE <[email protected]> wrote: From: SHYAM GHATE <[email protected]> Subject: [ButterflyIndia] Which Palmfly? To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, 27 July, 2011, 8:14 AM Pl id this Palmfly for me. -shyam ghate -- Animish Mandrekar Address: 304, Dattatray Bhavan, Eksar Road, Borivli (West), Mumbai-400 103 Tel.: (022) 28914101 Email: [email protected] -- Enjoy
