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Harlequin is Paralaxita damajanti. (note difference in submarginal spots)
1st darkie is probably Allotinus horsfieldi (hindwing postdiscal spot 6 below spot 7.)
2nd is A. strigatus (Pied marginal spots; hindwing postdiscal spot 6(crescent between torn portions) midway between spot 5 & spot 7(torn off))
Chersonesia rahria is right (hindwing inner 2 bands narrower than outer one; no dark mark at tornus)
Faunis kirata , due credit to Aaron. (dark patch; broaden dark zigzag line.)
Faunis gracilis appeared right. (no other left, unusual.)
Tanaecia aruna. credit to Aaron. (probably ssp. subochrea rather than triratna.)
Simiskina pheretia, both sexes (Note differences in wingshape & torn portions.)
Terinos terpander terpander is right. ( rounded wing contour; defined ocelli; prominent midcostal spot (not always white.)
It seems the Malayan race is unique in having the 2 white spots.
Curetis santana (thankfully C. bulis is absent from Borneo.)
Manto hypoleuca is correct. Credit to Aaron.
TL Seow:cheers:
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Thanks very much, everyone, for the feedback and identifications.
Aaron, it would be nice to see the little Streaked Blue Brilliant (Simiskina pheretia) in life. I wonder if they are a canopy butterfly? I saw Lc's recent photo of this one but did not recognize the wing as belonging to this species.
Thanks again, Seow, for your continuous help with these butterflies ... I am almost finished with Malaysian species for the year. I've only seen the peninsular T. terpander before and did not realize that only those had the white spots on the lower, uppersurface.
Regards,
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The Faunis gracilis is very unusual. I have not seen any with such markings before.
As far as I am aware, there are no subspecies of the species. If this form was accounted again on Borneo, we may need to think again about that!
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Xanthotaenia busiris? I have seen a number of butterflies of this species but never have I encountered one that acted like this. This butterfly would always land with wings open beneath a leaf. It did this repeatedly. All of the the others that I have seen landed as in the second photo below which was taken at Permai Beach Resort in Sarawak. The spotting on the outer wings also looks strange and is different to the Permai butterfly.
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...satyrinae1.jpg
"Normal" behaviour and appearance of a Xanthotaenia busiris from Permai:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...satyrinaea.jpg
This moth was really quite stricking. I found it while on a night walk and relocated it later when it was feeding from a cauliforous fig.
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...1000b/moth.jpg
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...0b/fig_500.jpghttp://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3.../moth2_500.jpg
I thought both of these moths were beautiful.
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3.../moth3_500.jpghttp://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3.../moth4_500.jpg
Here are a few of the moths that flew to the light of our chalet:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...b/collage2.jpg
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Thanks for posting the last of the 3 I was concerned about, i.e. the Xanthotania busiris look-alike.
The forewing underside certainly suggests that species, however, the hindwing underside is so different from those I so regularly come across that I find it difficult to believe that it coud be the Bornean ssp. X. b. burra.
I'll come back tomorrow with the moths, there are some I recognise.
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The female Amnosia decora has a yellow band and is a X. busiris double.
( Band can be yellow, white or pale blue in the female.)
TL Seow:cheers:
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Thanks, Les and Seow.
Here is a collage of the Amnosia decora from Poring (2,3,4) and the one from Kubah (1). The Poring butterfly had the pale blue wing band. Also, the undersurface was not as richly coloured as the female from Kubah.
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...0b/unknown.jpg
Regards,
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Sorry, but there are only 3 of the moths I recognise.
The first two show a male Eudocima dividens (Catocalinae).
The fourth, with the green 'windows' is a male Carriola ecnomoda (Lymantiinae).
The last moth is Plutodes cyclaria (Geometridae - Ennominae).
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I didn't check earlier, but surprisingly the Myanmese/Northern Thai ssp. of Drupadia ravindra also have an orange band. So ID is confirmed.
https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/D...dra_boisduvali
TL Seow:cheers:
