20/8/2011 Semakau Island

[Bluebottle]

Butts activities are pretty low at the Island today.
1. Pelopidas assamensis (Great Swift )
2,3 Potanthus trachala tytleri (Detached Dart)
4,5 Junonia orithya wallacei (Blue Pansy)
6. Little blue crap
7. +4

[Bluebottle]

Mycalesis perseus cepheus
(Dingy Bush Brown). +1 to the Semakau checklist?

[The Plane]

It was so hot out there :sweat: .
Here are my record shots to share :

8. The Large Dart (P. serina) female
9. The Palm Bob
10. Telicota colon female
11, 12. Blue Pansy
13. Blue Pansy Female

[Commander]

Looks like quite a few +'s for Semakau today. I think Ben also nailed one of the Pelopidas. Great shots of the Blue Pansy. I'm sure we can use one of these excellent upperside shots for the 2nd edition of the book. :cheers:

The Brown looks like a M. perseus. Anyone has any views?

I've got a Jamides sp. and also a Dark Glassy Tiger (anyone shot it as well?) that I'll post later. So looks like a +3 or more! :gbounce:

Our checklist (http://www.butterflycircle.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9612) for Semakau was at 40 species so far.

[Great Mormon]

Skipper sp
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/232/6/6/skipper___semakau_by_inckurei-d477q1k.jpg

Blue Pansy - Female underside
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/232/a/b/blue_pansy_by_inckurei-d477q5m.jpg

[Commander]

Some record shots to add to the outing.

The Dark Glassy Tiger and the Common Caerulean are additions to the Checklist.

[Peacock Royal]

1. Female Blue Pansy (Junonia orithya wallacei)
2. Looks like a Taractrocera archias quinta - ??
3. Looks like Contiguous Swift (Polytremis lubricans lubricans)
4 Tawny Coster (Acraea violae)
5 and 6 : Yellow Palm Dart (Cephrene trichopepla) ?
7. Tailless Line Blue (Prosotas dubiosa lumpura)

[Yamfly]

My shots from the outing today.

Junonia orithya wallacei (Blue Pansy Female)
http://dashwolfe.smugmug.com/ButterfliesOfSingapore/Nymphalidae/i-5ScjBXZ/0/L/IMG4606-L.jpg

Junonia orithya wallacei (Blue Pansy Female)
http://dashwolfe.smugmug.com/ButterfliesOfSingapore/Nymphalidae/i-wC2ZmbH/0/L/IMG4625-L.jpg

Junonia orithya wallacei (Blue Pansy Male)
http://dashwolfe.smugmug.com/ButterfliesOfSingapore/Nymphalidae/i-PZSbRBk/0/L/IMG4674-L.jpg

Junonia orithya wallacei (Blue Pansy Male)
http://dashwolfe.smugmug.com/ButterfliesOfSingapore/Nymphalidae/i-j4Csc7T/0/L/IMG4678-L.jpg

Danaus genutia genutia (Common Tiger)
http://dashwolfe.smugmug.com/ButterfliesOfSingapore/Nymphalidae/i-NgQrtqW/0/L/IMG4638-L.jpg

Danaus genutia genutia (Common Tiger)
http://dashwolfe.smugmug.com/ButterfliesOfSingapore/Nymphalidae/i-Fqt6DHV/0/L/IMG4650-L.jpg

Pelopidas sp (Same as Loke's in post #1?)
http://dashwolfe.smugmug.com/ButterfliesOfSingapore/Hesperiidae/i-B2X9WX6/0/L/IMG4710-L.jpg

Large Dart (Potanthus serina)
http://dashwolfe.smugmug.com/ButterfliesOfSingapore/Hesperiidae/i-tspWTBc/0/L/IMG4769-L.jpg

[Commander]

Those of you who were asking James K, who was with us on the outing, about his blog, it can be found here - Singapore Nature (http://sgn090608.blogspot.com/)

[Blue Nawab]

Here's my contributions for the trip...

Gram Blue
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6189/6062159012_a4e3e711c4_z_d.jpg

Lesser Grass Blue
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6069/6061615543_f9544ae20c_z_d.jpg

Tawny Coster
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6192/6062174792_7b440cd7f9_z_d.jpg

Palm Bob
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6077/6062275646_00d0c7f546_z_d.jpg

Blue Pansy
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6205/6062300402_43332b5e76_z_d.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6081/6062237252_380451a22a_z_d.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6078/6062226706_2fb343ddcb_z_d.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6196/6062198648_eb7f83f508_z_d.jpg

[Psyche]

Post 1

1. Great Swift Pelopidas assamensis. Typical colour spotting, white band on the antenna.

2 & 3. This is the one tentatively ided as Potanthus mingo.
Note the black spots edging the bands much as in P. trachala .
( Correction: This is actually P. trachala )

Post 2

M. perseus as Khew indicated.

Post 3

8. Large Dart P. serina female. Note disparity of the 2 spots in space 4 & 5 not so great as in the male; hindwing band here slightly aberrant.

11. Telicota colon female. : Underside yellowish & margins of spots in forewing band strongly concave.

Post 5

MaleT. colon. Note strongly concave margins of forewing spots.

TL Seow:cheers:

[Psyche]

Post 6

This is an interesting one. The dart here is rather orange compared to the dull yellowish/ochre underside of P. omaha.
The hindwing band is very lightly darkened on the underside.
The periphery of both wings have the veins hardly darkened whereas in P. omaha it is strongly so.
The spot in space 8 is half that of the spots in space 6 & 7.

I believed this is Potanthus juno male.

The Jamides should J. pura.
Note the lines are perfectly in line whereas in J. celeno they are out of alignment.
The upperside is visible & the forewing tip slightly bluish and not completely black or dark brown as in the J. celeno male.

TL Seow:cheers:

[Psyche]

Post 7

3. Contiguous Swift
5. Telicota besta female.: Note greenish yellow underside & lightly darkened veins across hindwing band.(Correction: This should be T. colon female: Note concave margins and shape of spots 4 & 5)
6. Telicota colon male: Note strongly concave margins of forewing spots.

And finally 2. P. confucius says.
Be Confused No More
For I Have Come.
Gaze Upon My Splendour And Rejoice
All Ye Who Had Abandon Hope.

Note apiculus at tip of antenna; presence of big spot in space 7 of hindwing; hindwing cell-spot not crescentic, ruling out Taractoceras.
Veins not darkened across band and forewing spots continuous; hindwing with a big spot in space 6.

TL Seow:cheers:

[moloch]

Well done, everyone! There are lots of nice photos here. I can't get over how vibrant the colours are on that male Blue Pansy. The species also lives here in Australia but I have never seen such a brightly marked specimen. Looks like you guys had lots of fun.

[Cigaritis wong]

Some record shots to add to the outing.

The Dark Glassy Tiger and the Common Caerulean are additions to the Checklist.

Thought Common Caerulean can only be found in a 'real' tropical forest habitat. What host plant it uses there?

[benetay]

Well done!! Lots of butterfly!

[Psyche]

The dart in pic no. 2 is actually P. trachala and not the suapect "P. mingo".
The hindwing have spot in space 6 that sits midway between that in space 5 & 7; also the black spots.
The forewing spots in space 2 & 3 have the outer margins strongly concave.

TL Seow:cheers:

[Bluebottle]

The dart in pic no. 2 is actually P. trachala and not the suapect "P. mingo".
The hindwing have spot in space 6 that sits midway between that in space 5 & 7; also the black spots.
The forewing spots in space 2 & 3 have the outer margins strongly concave.

TL Seow:cheers:

Thanks, Seow :cheers:

[budak]

Hello!

Thanks for joining us on this year's survey and hope everyone had a fun outing!

Alicia and I are compiling the photos for the new book edition, and could I ask if everyone who went on the trip put together a folder (original resolution jpeg) of the butts and other bugs you found, and we'll collect the files at your convenience?

Thanks!
Marcus

[Peacock Royal]

Marcus, I will find time to copy my shots on a CD and pass it to you.

[budak]

thanks Federick, I'm particularly keen on your owlfly and the blue pansies!

[Psyche]

I was looking for pics of Telicota females when I remembered this thread have a few. Going thru the images I realised a number of errors.

Post 1 pic 1.
With hindsight this is obviously a Parnara female, with the short stubby antennae. The antennae and underside colouration are quite different from Sunny's Parnara bada female.
http://www.butterflycircle.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12060
It is probably P. ganga.

Jamides. I think you are right all along, Khew. It should be J. celeno since the upperside wingtip is way too dark for J. pura, which means good alignment of the white striae need not be J. pura.

Post 8 pic 7.
The 2nd 'Pelopidas' is also a Parnara female although the antennae are a tad longer. It is not assamensis(antennae shaft white-banded), or conjunctus(hyaline spots yellow) & too dark (& hindwing spots too large) for mathias & agna.
The underside is very dark and the antennae appeared to all black as in P. apostata.

TL Seow:cheers: