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Thread: Some Butterfly Sighting Records in 2012

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    It was nothing happening where Federick shot his. My hunch tells me they must be somewhere in the adjacent forest . Decided to go in there for a hunt instead of the fruitless wait. .....must have covered 3-4 kilometers....the Butterfly Fairy smiled ...and saw this fluttering in the bush.



    Not the best of specimen I must admit, with the right hind wing torn... nevertheless it should be good enough to confirm that we have Symbrenthia hippoclus selangorana on our island. This appears to be a female. Upper and lower wing markings confirm with Pisuth Plate 158 N32 Symbrenthia hippoclus selangorana

    The location of this shot was quite far away and deep in the forest from where Federick nailed his. .... There were other specimen around but they were all high and dry and just refused to come down to entertain me.

    It is a rather small butterfly about the size of the Lasippa tiga siaka (The Malayan Lascar). It has the same flap-and-glide flight characteristic of the Lascar and it is almost indistinguishable in flight . It is very skittish and a high flyer.

    Will bring a director chair and a cool box of beer to wait them out the next round!

    Symbrenthia hippoclus selangorana or Symbrenthia lilaea luciana ??



    Record shot upper forewing marking





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    What great determination and what a reward, Sunny.

    It is a female S. hippoclus selangorana alright.

    Although the text in C&P4 states that the spot in space 3 on the forewing is wholly pinkish in the female of S. hippoclus, this is nigh impossible to see in a pic on a screen.
    I have found an important ID aid ie. on the hindwing the squarish discal spot in space 7 is clear yellow-brown in S. lilaea and partly or wholly shaded in S. hippoclus. Here it is wholly shaded.
    The underside hindwing is also more heavily dark-dusted.
    The upperside is very variable.

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    Last edited by Psyche; 27-Feb-2012 at 08:48 AM. Reason: clarification

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    Well done, Sunny. Can always depend on you to hunt them down.

    Next will be to send our cat farming expert, Horace, to nail down the life history.
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    Well done Sunny. The underside shot is great

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    Wow, great effort, Sunny.
    3-4 kms away is definitely well into the no-man land and not a place to wander there during weekdays.
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    Wow wow wow!!!

    Congrats to Uncle Fedrick and Uncle Sunny!

    I never expected to see this here!!

    cheers
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    Quote Originally Posted by horace2264 View Post
    Wow, great effort, Sunny.
    3-4 kms away is definitely well into the no-man land and not a place to wander there during weekdays.
    Horace,

    Not that far away........ I'd covered 3-4 kms searching, before stumbled on them.
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    WOW, congrats to you Federick and Sunny ! . +1 for our checklist
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    Well done Sunny.

    Thanks Fed, for the habitat details, and also Sunny, for the flight style details. I must take more interest in the Lasippa looking butts in the future!!!

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    Found a third shot of a possible J. pura female by Federick in Seletar Wasteland Dec. 2011.
    Note thick white striae on forewing & sharper contrast of markings.
    This one had laid an egg.
    http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0EK80AsaR7...ulean%2529.jpg

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