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First stop ...Puddling Ground.
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The Magnificient Seven at Frasers Jezebel ground
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Left to right: LC, Chng, Dennis, Khew. Les, Loke , Sunny.
Dinner at Old Smoke House
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Left front to back: LC, Dennis, Les , Chng, Loke. Right : Sunny , Irene. Khew, Shirley, Patrick.
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How a medium rare steak should be .....
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Nice "environmental" shots, Sunny. :cheers: Good memories on this trip. :)
Thanks, Les :cheers:Quote:
Originally Posted by Painted Jezebel
C4
The Banded Angle ( Odontoptilum pygela pygela )
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C5
Club Beak (Libythea-myrrha-hecura)
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C6
Tawny Rajah ( Charaxes bernardus crepax )
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C7
The White Dragontail ( Lamproptera curius curius)
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C8
Lethe minerva
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C9
Red Spot Sawtooth (Prioneris philonome themana)
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Beautiful "environmental shots" Sunny :thumbsup:
Sharing some record shots of those skittish fellas from the Hill. We needed Les to pray for divine intervention and cooperative butts :bsmile:
Not quite sure about some of the ID though.
L20 Les.
L21 Delias ninus ninus (Malayan Jezebel)
L22 Delias ninus ninus (Malayan Jezebel)
L23 Abisara neophron (Tailed Judy)
L24, 25 Cepora nadina andersoni (The Lesser Gull)
L26, L27 Ixias pyrene alticola (Yellow Orange Tip)
L28 Appias pandione lagela
L29 Troides brookiana albescens (Rajah Brooke's Birdwings), Female
L30 Opps, not a butt ;P . ID is appreciated.
last one from me ...........phew this took me an hour to process!;P
Delias ninus ninus (Malayan Jezebel)
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L24 & 25 - Cepora nadina nadina (Lesser Gull)
L26 & 27 - Ixias pyrene alticola (Yellow Orange Tip)
L28 - Appias pandione lagela (Banded Puffin)
Thank you. All new to me!Quote:
Originally Posted by Psyche
My first lot from the Hill, itself.
PJ9 & 10) Hasora mus pahanga ( found at our hotel)
PJ11 & 12) Ideopsis gaura perakana (Small Wood Nymph)
PJ13) Parantica sita ethologa (Chestnut Tiger) - Male
PJ14) Trogonoptera brookiana albescens - Female underside
My last ones!
PJ15) Delias baracasa dives (Yellow Jezebel)
PJ16) Delias decombersi eranthos (Red-spot Jezebel)
PJ17) Rapala nissa pahangana (Common Flash)? A guess, but seems most likely!
PJ18) Stiboges nymphidia nymphidia (Columbine)
PJ19) Poritia phama rajata.
A highly successful and enjoyable trip, with 26 species seen which were new to me. Now to update my website!
I'd always thought that the specialised scales (dark patch) at the tornal area of the hindwing of Danainae means that it's a male? Not in this case?Quote:
Originally Posted by Painted Jezebel
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Yes! Oops!!!:embrass: Changed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Commander
Two Curetis for ID:
1. Curetis santana malayica (Malayan Sunbeam)
2. Curetis bulis stigmata
Some 'environmental shots'
1. From left to right: Loke, Khew, Sunny, Chng
2. Shooting the breeze and waiting for the sun to come out
3. Getting the perfect shot.
4. Cleaning up the gears after a day of hard work in the field. You would not believe how much sands had stuck in the camera and lens :what:
5. Shooting the 'rare one'
6. Going home...
1 is correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluebottle
You can see the band is totally dislocated on the hindwing.
2. is Curetis bulis stigmata.
The band continues from the forewing apex through the hindwing cellend mark to the tornus.
The black border at the upper part of the hindwing is broader than in santana and it broadens much more downwards.
Interestingly the legs are banded brown whereas that of santana are banded red. If constant, would be a useful ID feature.
TL Seow:cheers:
Nice to see the 'premium team' members in action! Wished I could have joined you. Did some reading about Fraser's Hill on Google. Sound cool and inviting.
William
Sharing a video:
Trying to isolate one of these skittish Chocolate Albatross will make you go mad. Worse still, they keep disturbing other puddling butterflies. May be you can hear Sunny *&%$% at the background :bsmile:
This is probably one of the most majestic butterflies I have ever shoot. There were a least 5 or 6 of them on that day. After a few round of shootings, there was no more photographer queuing up to shoot them and I am able to take my time to shoot a short video of this beauty.
Jewel Nawab
Les, there is no C. nadina nadina in C&P4. Could it be Cepora nadina andersoni ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Painted Jezebel
I guess I got this last one to post.
Ixias pyrene alticola (Yellow Orange Tip) - female
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Eliot had actually elevated alticola to full species status as Ixias alticola.Quote:
Originally Posted by Glorious Begum
TL Seow:cheers:
Apologies, I had thought we had the same ssp. It appears that the Malay ssp. does not reach the Thai border, nor does the Thai ssp. reach Malaysia. C. nadina andersoni it is. Damnation, never bothered to photo it!!:thumbsdowQuote:
Originally Posted by Glorious Begum
Is this now fully accepted? I knew that there was great debate about this, but was not aware it had been resolved. C&P4 mentions this and intimates that it could be a separate sp. but retained it as a ssp. of I. pyrene.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psyche
Some record shots from me : :cheers:
e) Dwarf Crow (Euploea tullioulus ledereri)
f) Jamides talingad
g) Yellow Orange-Tip (Ixias pyrene) - Pic was heavily cropped
h) Poritia phama rajata
i) Five Bar Swordtail (Pathysa antiphates itamputi)
j) Orange Albatross
k) White Dragontails
l) Green (not blue) Dragontails
m) Pithauris marsena
n) Jewel Nawab
o) Prosotas pia pia
p) Red Spot Sawtooth (Prioneris philonome themana)
q) Straight Pierrot
r) Red-spot Jezebel (Delias decombersi eranthos)
s) Charaxes harmodius martinus
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Chng ,
Beautiful shots!:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
:cheers:
Ooooo BLUE Dragontail! :bsmile:
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
In Malayan Nature Journal vol 58 Oct. 2006.Quote:
Originally Posted by Painted Jezebel
Eliot's explanation is that there are no intermediates, given some altitudinal overlap is inevitable, and there are no other known subspecies of I. pyrene in which the male is white.
Taxon alticola is endemic to peninsular Malaysia.
TL Seow:cheers:
Post 66. f.
Jamides talinga.
Forewing elpis group, postdiscal band broken at vein 6; hindwing sub-basal band broken.
The ID mark is the 2 white dashes/dots above the forewing cellend bar.
Post 67/m Pithauris marsena.
Post 67/o Prosotas pia pia. Note submarginal spots much faded.
Post 68. The colour is wrong for C. bernardus which is a steely greyish-brown.(as in the other pix.)
The colour is that of Charaxes harmodius martinus, which is a deep purple brown. They are almost identical on the underside except that the upper submarginal white spots in space 6 & 7 on the hindwing tend to be more prominent in this species.
TL Seow:cheers:
PS. Since your Green Dragontail & Jewel Nawab are also overly blue, the excessive blue tone may have cause the Rajah to be purplish, in which case it is still the Tawny Rajah.
Thanks Les and Dr Seow for your ID help.... :mad2: means I missed the Tawny Rajah as I thought I had it already after shooting the Charaxes harmodius martinus on the 2nd day :-(
Still think the name Blue Dragontail is more appropriate :bsmile:Quote:
Originally Posted by Commander
Thanks Sunny ! :cheers:Quote:
Originally Posted by Silverstreak
I did some checking on this and it should be C. harmodius martinus after all.
Even if there is excessive blue tone, & if this removed it would not show the steely grey tone of C. bernardus.
Here are examples of C. harmodius this probably from Thailand.
In particular, note the shape of the hindwing submarginal markings.
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Here is one from Java. You can see the hindwing upper white spots are variable. & smaller here.
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Your shot matches these well especially the submarginal markings in pic 1.
TL Seow:cheers:
Last batch of photos...
Lily bud flower
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Sunrise
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Ant
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Morning dew
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Thanks again for checking, Dr Seow. And also for letting me know my shots has got a blue tint. I checked all my shots taken in this trip and indeed some of them has already got the blue tint in camera raw format, eg the Red Spot Jezebel I posted below. I wonder why :thinking: :hmmm:
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Originally Posted by Psyche
Interesting. I was not aware that C. harmodius was found in Thailand. Ek-Amnuay does not mention it in his 1st edition, nor is it on the list of species to be in the 2nd as yet unpublished edition. However, I see that Yutaka does show a specimen from Ranong labelled C. harmodius ssp.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psyche
Ranong is not that far from me, so I had better pay more attention to the specimens of C. bernadus crepax I see!
That submarginal whitish thin band on the forewing underside appears to be different in Chng's shot compared to those that Sunny and I shot of the Tawny Rajah.
I've taken the liberty of posting Lemon's shot for comparison as well - also shot elsewhere on Fraser's Hill over the same period.
here's another shot of that same tawny rajah with different settings, without flash. was quite curious as to why this one had that black band marked so strongly on the hindwing..as well as the white edge on the forewing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Commander
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just curious, how come some tawny rajah's are steely grey while some are more orangey-brown. are all these also just variations?
Here is another Tawny Rajah ( Charaxes bernardus crepax ) taken at same location as Chng's in Feb 2011
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