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MinuteMaid
12-Feb-2013, 03:59 PM
An unusual looking Mycalesis with very thick black borders on the underside. just a quick shot in the dark forest interior under the quickly darkening sky before it rained.

Aberrant M. fusca?

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8096/8467607880_a982639b31.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lemonteayk/8467607880/)
The Malayan Bush Brown (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lemonteayk/8467607880/) by LemonTeaYK (http://www.flickr.com/people/lemonteayk/), on Flickr
Commander
12-Feb-2013, 06:37 PM
Looks like an aberration. None of the other associated species has that dark submarginal border. You're pretty good at spotting these aberrations in the field! :cheers:
MinuteMaid
12-Feb-2013, 07:12 PM
Looks like an aberration. None of the other associated species has that dark submarginal border. You're pretty good at spotting these aberrations in the field! :cheers:

actually it landed infront of me. but because the sky was so severely overcast and the forest was so dark, it appeared as a dark brown blob with no details. only after one shot then i realized it was different.
Psyche
12-Feb-2013, 08:43 PM
It is so distinctive & different, it could spawn a colony of a new subspecies.

TL Seow:cheers:
Painted Jezebel
13-Feb-2013, 09:01 AM
What an attractive ab. I hope you can find more.
MinuteMaid
15-Feb-2013, 11:10 PM
It is so distinctive & different, it could spawn a colony of a new subspecies.

TL Seow:cheers:

perhaps! maybe we'll see some with intermediate borders around there


What an attractive ab. I hope you can find more.

i seldom come across M. fusca in the field. I don't have luck with this species. but that day was particularly lucky :)
MinuteMaid
16-Feb-2013, 06:10 PM
The fruiting melastoma attracted quite a number of butterflies, including many M. fusca.

Out of which, one was aberrated, just like the previous one i shot. This one i believe is a female.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8247/8477466327_a8a0f1e431.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lemonteayk/8477466327/)
The Malayan Bushbrown (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lemonteayk/8477466327/) by LemonTeaYK (http://www.flickr.com/people/lemonteayk/), on Flickr

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8246/8477466827_8f19a8a28d.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lemonteayk/8477466827/)
The Malayan Bushbrown (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lemonteayk/8477466827/) by LemonTeaYK (http://www.flickr.com/people/lemonteayk/), on Flickr
Psyche
16-Feb-2013, 06:53 PM
They both look distinctive enough to be a new species.

However, I think both are females.

The male usually have a more even orange-brown colour & straighter forewing margin (termen).eg.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G8Dck7AxQfw/T7uf-8srb5I/AAAAAAAAF3Q/XqFWll4YdJ4/s1600/DSC0500+Malayan+Bush+Brown.jpg

TL Seow:cheers:
MinuteMaid
16-Feb-2013, 07:01 PM
They both look distinctive enough to be a new species.

However, I think both are females.

The male usually have a more even orange-brown colour & straighter forewing margin (termen).eg.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G8Dck7AxQfw/T7uf-8srb5I/AAAAAAAAF3Q/XqFWll4YdJ4/s1600/DSC0500+Malayan+Bush+Brown.jpg

TL Seow:cheers:

How I wish it is a new species. But I think it's just a variation. The blak margin phenotype probably exists in bigger numbers at sime forest since I've encountered two in less than a week.

But if it was a new sp,then mycalesis melanomarginatus would be a nice and fitting name