Blow Through Panti

[Silverstreak]

While en route to Mersing today decided to have a famil/recce on Panti... Just could not resist shooting them after sighting them from the car...all shots taken within 10 meters from my car.

Went all the way to the end of the track and backtrack, total time taken was 1.5 hours and 18KMs

Here are some of the unprocessed shots other than cropping and level.

Apologies no time to ID them....

Khew will surely know all of them!

[Silverstreak]

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[Peacock Royal]

Well captured and these shots certainly entice many of us to visit Panti in the future.
So many species within 10m of your car - must be a butts season at the moment or it has been like this whole year round?

[Commander]

I believe this is Bunker Trail, Federick.

[Common Mime]

Woah! You make me feel like shooting some Malaysian butts too!

[Painted Jezebel]

Amazing photos, but it raises one question. Where is Panti, surely not Singapore with these species?

From top to bottom:
Trogonoptera brookiana trogon (female I believe!)
Terinos clarissa malayanus
Ragadia makuta siporita ; Parthenos sylvia lilacinus
Zemeros emesoides emesoides
Cirrochroa orissa orissa
Parantica aspasia aspasia
Catopsilia pyranthe pyranthe
Agasta calydonia calydonia
Cepora iudith malaya

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[Commander]

Amazing photos, but it raises one question. Where is Panti, surely not Singapore with these species?

From top to bottom:
Trogonoptera brookiana trogon (female I believe!)
Terinos clarissa malayanus
Ragadia makuta siporita ; Parthenos sylvia lilacinus
Zemeros emesoides emesoides
Cirrochroa orissa orissa
Parantica aspasia aspasia
Catopsilia pyranthe pyranthe
Agasta calydonia calydonia
Cepora iudith malaya

Les
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Panti forest (the large area around Gunung Panti) is in the state of Johor in Malaysia. Search for the keyword Bunker Trail or Panti and you will find earlier threads of this place.

Just to add the commonly used English names to the species that Les has kindly identified.

From top to bottom:
Rajah Brooke's Birdwing - Trogonoptera brookiana trogon (female I believe!) - yes, this is a female, we use the subspecies name mollumar though I think it's a synonym with trogon. This is a lowland subspecies of the other Malaysian subspecies albescens which is found usually in the highlands of Malaysia.
Malayan Assyrian - Terinos clarissa malayanus
Striped Ringlet - Ragadia makuta siponta ; The Clipper - Parthenos sylvia lilacinus
Zemeros emesoides emesoides
Banded Yeoman - Cirrochroa orissa orissa This one can be found in Singapore
Yellow Glassy Tiger - Parantica aspasia aspasia
Mottled Emigrant - Catopsilia pyranthe pyranthe
Glorious Begum - Agasta calydonia calydonia
Common Gull - Cepora iudith malaya

[Painted Jezebel]

Thanks for correcting my spelling, I can't read my own writing!

Regarding the Trogonoptera brookiana trogon, it is my understanding that the females are much much harder to photograph, as they very rarely descend down from the canopy, whereas the males often descend. Is that correct, or is it just the montane subspecies?

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[Commander]

Thanks for correcting my spelling, I can't read my own writing!

You're welcome! People of our age are usually visually challenged when it comes to small print.

Regarding the Trogonoptera brookiana trogon, it is my understanding that the females are much much harder to photograph, as they very rarely descend down from the canopy, whereas the males often descend. Is that correct, or is it just the montane subspecies?

In this location, no. Their host plant Aristolochia foveolata is found here, and on one particular outing, I counted no less than 7 females circling the host plant (not at the same time, of course!). I didn't have my D2X at that time though.

In fact, for this subspecies, males are much rarer, and don't puddle like ssp albescens (which tend to puddle in large numbers during a good season)

[Painted Jezebel]

Thanks SK. Perhaps the required minerals are available in other forms in the lowlands.

Les
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