Pales or Napaea?

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Catteraxe
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Pales or Napaea?

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Any enlightement gratefully received (no underside unfortunately).
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David M
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Re: Pales or Napaea?

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Always a tricky one this, Kev.

My personal choice would be pales, mainly based on the rather disjointed shape of the forewing post discal spots. They sort of jump out of sequence below the uppermost three, whereas in napaea they tend to be in a more regular line.
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Re: Pales or Napaea?

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Thanks David, I’ll go with Pales.

Kevin
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