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horace2264
23-Jul-2009, 04:21 PM
Found this Sergeant flying around a newly completed "hut" in CCA. It was very skittish under the hot midday sun, and these are the best I could take of its upperside and underside from afar.

Thinking that it was the more common Dot-Dash Sergeant then, I didn't spend more time in stalking it. Now on the computer screen, the markings suggest it is actually our elusive, feared-to-be-extinct, Malay Staff Sergeant.

What do you think?
horace2264
23-Jul-2009, 04:30 PM
Adding one more shot to give another view of the upperside markings.
Commander
23-Jul-2009, 04:52 PM
Sure looks like it... the constricted cell band on the forewing is quite distinct. Congrats on your +1. :cheers:
horace2264
23-Jul-2009, 04:58 PM
Sure looks like it... the constricted cell band on the forewing is quite distinct. Congrats on your +1. :cheers:

Great. Thanks for the confirmation. :cheers:

Definitely a very rare +1 for butterfly sighting for me these days. :)
Now I have to try to find the host plant for this species in the CCA.
Elbowed Pierrot
23-Jul-2009, 05:32 PM
Chiong AH!!!! :P
Glorious Begum
23-Jul-2009, 09:53 PM
Agreed, it is A.reta. Wish you good luck :cheers:
horace2264
24-Jul-2009, 12:18 AM
Agreed, it is A.reta. Wish you good luck :cheers:
Thanks, LC. :)
atronox
25-Jul-2009, 01:11 AM
Great record, Horace.
Now there's some sign of its existence in sg.
horace2264
25-Jul-2009, 11:42 PM
Great record, Horace.
Now there's some sign of its existence in sg.
Thanks, Aaron. :)
Hopefully a healthy population has already been established around that site, and we will get to capture more field shots and study its local life history.
atronox
27-Jul-2009, 01:35 AM
Thanks, Aaron. :)
Hopefully a healthy population has already been established around that site, and we will get to capture more field shots and study its local life history.
Yes, i hope so too. Or they could be doing very well, just that they're in an area that's inaccessible to us;P