New article at the Blog

[Silverstreak]

This is Radio Silverstreak.... announcing there is a .... New article at the Blog... Life History of the Yellow Glassy Tiger (http://butterflycircle.blogspot.com/)

[Commander]

Heh... thanks for the advert, Sunny. The article is courtesy of our friend up in KL, who contributed his excellent photos. Thanks LC Goh! :cheers:

[Glorious Begum]

you are welcome ! :cheers:

[EarlyStages]

Khew, I like your blog! While reading this report about Goh's Yellow Glassy Tiger, I noted your interesting mention of the burnet moth Cyclosia pieridoides and the resemblance of its sexually dimorphic adults to butterflies in the danaid genera Parantica and Ideopsis. Remarkably, the nearby Cyclosia midamia (http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/47_Zygaenidae/47_1%20Chalcosiinae/07_Cyclosia/Cyclosia%20midama/Cyclosia%20midama.htm) appears to mimic/be mimiced by the Striped Blue Crow (Euploea mulciber) as an adult and Aristolochia-feeding papilionids (Byasa, Atrophaneura) as a caterpillar! (I have a short Japanese article that illustrates this dual, interfamilial resemblance.) Does anybody have a photo of C. pieridoides's larva?

Keith

[Commander]

Thanks Keith. I thought that was worth a mention cos I had first hand experience during a survey of the Central Catchment some years back. I did a double take when I spotted a "Yellow Glassy Tiger" fluttering around some flowering plants. Out came the net and I was about to congratulate myself for re-discovering the species in Singapore when I took the specimen out, only to realise that it was a moth! ;P

The species is fairly common in the Central Catchment forested areas, though the females are more often encountered than the males.

No idea what the caterpillar looks like though.

Over at the Malaysian website, there are some posts of this group of moths taken Thailand, and it is amazing to see their similarities and exhibition of Mullerian mimicry with the distasteful species in Papilionidae and Danainae species, and even one that looks like one of Les' beloved Delias!

Moths of Thailand 1 (http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/vines/8983/moths/thaimoths2.html)
Moths of Thailand 2 (http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/vines/8983/moths/thaimoths3.html)