ButterflyCircle Checklist - Megisba malaya sikkima (The Malayan)

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Megisba malaya sikkima

The Malayan

Details

Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Lycaeninae
Genus: Megisba
Species: malaya sikkima
Common Name: The Malayan
Wingspan:
Forms:
Status in Singapore:
Life History: complete
This butterfly can be found in: •Singapore
Hostplant(s): Mallotus paniculatus (Turn-in-the-wind)

Description
To be detailed.

Habitat & Habits
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Other Observations
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Early Stages
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Further Reading
To be detailed.

Early Stages Photos

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egg

Egg

cat

Caterpillar

pupa

Pupa

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Malayan - 2 - Wong Chee Meng
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malayan - bene

Model: Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL Exposure: 1/125 ISO: 400 Focal Length:100mm
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Malayan - horace
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Malayan - James Chia
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Malayan - Simon Sng
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Malayan - Wong Chee Meng
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The Malayan - Nelson Ong

Acknowledgements

This checklist is updated regularly and validated in consultation with Dr Laurence G Kirton (Forest Research Institute of Malaysia), and previously, the late Col John N Eliot, (of the Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula, Edition 4). Contributions to the sightings and latest additions to the Singapore Checklist are with special thanks to the hardworking members of ButterflyCircle.

Singapore is home to 305 species of butterflies.

Updates

The latest update in 2008 is consistent with the recent re-classification developments and updates to C&P4 in the Malaysian Nature Journal 59(1), pp 1 - 49, and DNA mapping of the family Nymphalidae by Wahlberg et al, whereby the Subfamilies Nymphalinae, Heliconiinae, Limenitidinae, Cyrestinae and Apaturinae are now applicable to the Singapore checklist. The family Riodinidae, which was earlier placed as a subfamily of Lycaenidae, has also been reinstated to the family level.

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