Shyam, I have now prepared and uploaded a detailed key to distinguish between Abisara chela and A. neophron. Many of the key distinguishing features marked on my collage are not given in any books or papers, they are my insight into how these two very similar species differ from each other. I recently figured out these things based on the photos that various people have contributed to the BOI website and also on the specimens in Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. Check out images ag949 and ag950 on both the species pages:
http://ifoundbutterflies.org/187-abisara/abisara-neophron http://ifoundbutterflies.org/187-abisara/abisara-chela These characters should enable you and others to distinguish between the two species even when you have only the upper side or the underside view of the wings. Check this out and let me know what you think. BTW, now we have six specimens of Abisara chela (Spot Judy) represented on the website, I guess that’s a good number for a presumed rare species. This covers some individual variation, so this should be useful in the future. Thanks, all, for contributing your images to this page. With best wishes, Krushnamegh. ________________________________ From: SHYAM GHATE <[email protected]> Reply-To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 01:47:16 -0400 To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Two Judies (Abisara) from Sikkim Kishen, Thanks . I guess in case of my photograph, the short tail has to be the identifying mark as the spot is not visible (due to inadequate opening of the wings). -shyam ghate --- On Thu, 7/28/11, Kishen Das <[email protected]> wrote: From: Kishen Das <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Two Judies (Abisara) from Sikkim To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 1:36 PM Dear Ghate, This should help you - http://www.flutters.org/home/photogallery/index.php?level=picture&id=205 Regards, Kishen On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:31 PM, SHYAM GHATE <[email protected] </mc/[email protected]> > wrote: Would u identify which one is this and why. The site is not helpful on that - yet. -ghate --- On Tue, 7/26/11, [email protected] </mc/[email protected]> <[email protected] </mc/[email protected]> > wrote: From: [email protected] </mc/[email protected]> <[email protected] </mc/[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Two Judies (Abisara) from Sikkim To: "Butterfly India" <[email protected] </mc/[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 7:54 PM Dear Krushnamegh, I have an image of the Spot Judy from Namdapha taken in the month of May. Initially had id'd it as Tailed Judy but after Gaurav's post on FB checked it again. So I guess it is not as rare as considered earlier. Regards, Parag Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone from !DEA ________________________________ From: "Kunte, Krushnamegh" <[email protected] </mc/[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] </mc/[email protected]> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:47:33 -0400 To: butterflyindia<[email protected] </mc/[email protected]> > ReplyTo: [email protected] </mc/[email protected]> Subject: [ButterflyIndia] Two Judies (Abisara) from Sikkim Hi all, Here are two very similar species of Judies (Abisara): the Tailed Judy (Abisara neophron): http://ifoundbutterflies.org/187-abisara/abisara-neophron And the Spot Judy (Abisara chela): http://ifoundbutterflies.org/187-abisara/abisara-chela Evans (1932) says the Spot Judy is very rare, Gaurav and I saw three in one day. I guess we were in the right place in the right season. Animish Mandrekar has recently photographed it at Eaglenest, his picture is also posted on the above page. With best wishes, Krushnamegh. ------------------------------------------------- Krushnamegh Kunte, PhD Post-doctoral Research Fellow FAS Center for Systems Biology Harvard University 52 Oxford St., Northwest Lab Room 458.40-3 Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Ph: (617) 496-0078, Cell: (512) 577-1370, Fax: (617) 495-2196 Email: [email protected] Other emails: [email protected], [email protected] Personal website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kunte/index.htm <http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ekunte/index.htm> Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ Google profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/krushnamegh -- Enjoy
