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Blue Nawab
04-Jan-2015, 12:12 AM
Curious about what will be my first shot in 2015 and I have chosen...

(1) Silver Forget-me-not (Catochrysops panormus exiguus)
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7572/16184768345_336a9519ae_c_d.jpg

(2) Sumatran Sunbeam (Curetis saronis sumatrana)
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7566/15997465920_153a494d44_c_d.jpg

HAPPY NEW YEAR BC Members!

Bluebottle
04-Jan-2015, 10:33 AM
A good start of the new year, Cher Hern :cheers:
Yes, and we will not forget you :)

Blue Nawab
25-Jan-2015, 11:39 PM
Thanks Loke for the nice gesture!
Here's my No. 3 shot.
Yellow Palm Dart (Cephrenes trichopepla)
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8627/15741326024_1513c22798_c_d.jpg

Blue Nawab
02-Feb-2015, 10:51 PM
(4)Mottled Emigrant (Catopsilia pyranthe pyranthe)
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8566/15807191603_ab4f378a4a_c_d.jpg

(5)Small Branded Swift (Pelopidas mathias mathias)
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8668/16239879150_e22ed47849_c_d.jpg

(6)Tawny Coster (Acraea violae)
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7423/16401297416_94e8ec6a5a_c_d.jpg

(7)Yellow Palm Dart (Cephrenes trichopepla)
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8575/16241343787_00ed560698_c_d.jpg

Blue Nawab
15-Feb-2015, 07:01 PM
#8,#9 Two Spotted Line Blue (Nacaduba biocellata)

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7368/16534776602_43d8701e1c_c_d.jpg
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7380/16348004358_5ca8e9d549_c_d.jpg

Peacock Royal
15-Feb-2015, 09:10 PM
Well done. I have not encountered this species for quite a while.

Blue Nawab
02-May-2015, 01:37 AM
Dr Seow, IDs needed for the two UFOs. Thanks!
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7729/17147169429_e685154222_c_d.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8803/17333033221_0cd58c19f2_c_d.jpg

Psyche
02-May-2015, 03:16 PM
They are both Prosotas dubiosa lumpura.

TL Seow :Cheers.

Blue Nawab
02-May-2015, 07:07 PM
Thanks Dr Seow!


They are both Prosotas dubiosa lumpura.

TL Seow :Cheers.

Blue Nawab
22-Jun-2015, 03:21 PM
Common Yeoman (Cirrochroa tyche rotundata)
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/343/18857135608_20b1f74613_c_d.jpg
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/385/18858708599_810684aa07_c_d.jpg

Banded Yeoman
22-Jun-2015, 07:08 PM
Woo! :cheers::cheers:

Blue Nawab
26-Jul-2015, 05:08 PM
Dr Seow, is this Archduke or Yellow Archduke? Thanks!
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/478/20022945331_32e7d2d21b_b_d.jpg

Blue Nawab
26-Jul-2015, 05:47 PM
Dr Seow,take a look at this Horaga sp., is this Horaga syrinx maenala or others? Thanks!
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/407/19395695704_6bdb5c4162_b_d.jpg
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/324/19830362870_70e8e9d299_b_d.jpg

Blue Nawab
26-Jul-2015, 05:58 PM
Dr Seow, is this Caltoris cormasa? Thanks!
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/285/19830647670_905d447e10_b_d.jpg

Psyche
26-Jul-2015, 06:55 PM
Post 12.

1. Archduke L. pardalis
The triangualr spot on the lower FW have two small spot basal to it.

In L. canescens there is only one spot basal to the trangular spot.
http://s31.photobucket.com/user/moloch05/media/Malaysia/Taman%20Negara/June2010/third/butterfly64aLexiascanescensYellowAr.jpg.html

2. Female Horaga syrinx. Note long palpi.
Foreleg banded with black.
FW white patch long & narrow. .
FW marginal brown area wider that that on the HW.
HW tornal white band short .often variously wavy , thicken or broken.

Horaga onyx :Foreleg banded as in syrinx.
FW white patch broad & strongly notched.
FW marginal area narrower than that on the HW.
HW tornal white band long reaching the inner margin, its upper edge straight.
Examples from Singapore.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3480/3845446530_d138b0afac_z.jpg?zz=1
http://s18.photobucket.com/user/NickySteel/media/Horaga-syrinx-maenala-Ambo.jpg.html

3. Caltoris cormasa female . Note wingshape , pointed at apex & then strongly convex.

TL Seow: CHeers.