Sabah, March-April 2019

[Banded Yeoman]

Aaron you bet I haven't even gotten into the really good stuff yet.

But I have to say, before you get your hopes TOO high, we shot nothing on the level of Poritia plateni or Stibochiona schoenbergi.

[Psyche]

Post 2 last shot.

Appias indra aemilia.

http://www.butterflycircle.com/check...wbutterfly/321

TL Seow: Cheers.

[Commander]

Great shots, Jonathan! Glad you enjoyed the trip!

Dr Seow, are you aware of a Symbrenthia that is black and white? We encountered one at Mahua and I could not find any sources to show that there is a white form of this species. Do you have any info on such a form? I will post it later. Unfortunately, it was quite tattered.

[Psyche]

The female of the taxon javanus is black & white.

In several sites this has been labelled as Symbrenthia lilaea javanus.
http://motyli.wz.cz/nymphal/symbrenthia.htm
https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/17204024

In C&P4, Eliot states S. lilaea only extend to Neomalaya (ie Sumatra ,Malaya & Borneo) excluding Java.
This means the species in Java is S. hippoclus.
This is also stated in Funet.
http://ftp.funet.fi/index/Tree_of_li...e/symbrenthia/
The range of S. h. javanus include Java ,Bali & Borneo.


TL Seow: Cheers.

[Commander]

Thanks Dr Seow. So this the black and white one is a female Symbrenthia lilaea javanus

In this attached photo, is this Athyma nefte nivifera?
ColourSergeant-KSK.jpg

[atronox]

It should be Athyma selenophora amhara

[Commander]

Oops. Thanks Aaron. I was looking out for the similar twice-broken cell streak which the ssp amharina doesnt have.

[Psyche]

It should be Athyma selenophora amhara

Concur it is A. selenophora amhara.

In A. selenophora the FW band have 4 main spots. A. cama have 3 main spots in the band & no cell streak.

A. selenophora amhara. last row 1st image.
A. cama ambra ; 1st row, third image.
https://archive.org/stream/diegrosss...e/124/mode/1up

Another image of A. selenopnora amhara.fig 2.
https://archive.org/stream/proceedin.../n424/mode/1up


The Symbrenthia is Symbrenthia hippoclus javanus
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/dat...ch_type=starts
Also in funet.
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life...e/symbrenthia/

It was first placed as a ssp of S. lilaea , but this has been revised.
The website quoting S. lilaea javanus have referred to old IDs.

TL Seow ; Cheers.