Sonni molti bello (probably all wrong), but these are all very beautiful work. I'm glad you can spend a few hours each day capturing the beauty of your island! William
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Sonni molti bello (probably all wrong), but these are all very beautiful work. I'm glad you can spend a few hours each day capturing the beauty of your island! William
Nice ones, Antonio.
Sounds like your cooking is just too good! For me, the trips away always help since I do lots of walking and don't even think much of food. It is an effortless way to drop back to equilibrium.Quote:
I must seriously start to dispose of the many kilos in excess!
Regards,
Yes David, when I travel for butterflies I don't think too much about food, but I don't get out my small island as much as I will.
Anyway, today in a short walk I've found a +1 for Koh Phangan:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8031/7...e7d2fe9c_z.jpg
The Common Red Flash
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8295/7...9c9011f3_z.jpg
Who am I?
When I first looked at the second photo, I thought that it was the head of some sort of insect!:bsmile:
Congrats on the +1, Uncle Antonio:cheers:
This morning a 3 hours walk in a nice track in a secondary forest gave me some good satisfaction, sun, sweat and Lycaenids.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8032/7...feff5838_z.jpg
An Oakblue
Arhopala lurida? atosia malayana? I dunno...
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8454/7...9c5340a6_z.jpg
The Tamil Oakblue
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8181/7...99a0a422_z.jpg
The White-stained Oakblue
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8447/7...71000fa3_z.jpg
The Ciliate Blue, upper view
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8310/7...d4ac2a38_z.jpg
The Common Tit
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8175/7...b666a7c0_z.jpg
The Malayan Sunbeam corrected
And dulcis in fundo, the rare Flos diardi capeta in a good shot "BC style" (soft background)
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8451/7...ef1492f2_c.jpg
The Bifid Plushblue
:omg:
The flos shot is amazing!
It is definitely one of the finest I've seen.
:thumbsup::thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Nice shot of Flos, I am yet to find one over here. Must work harder. :cheers:
Arhopala atosia & lurida can be quite difficult to separate.
A. lurida is darker with better contrasted markings.
Perhaps this feaure is correct after all.
In A. lurida the hindwing postdiscal spots 4 & 5 (just to the outside of the cellend bar) have a wide overlap.
http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...daMUpUnAC1.jpg
In A. atosia postdiscal spot 4 & 5 are staggered & have little overlap.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...aMFUpUnAC1.jpg
This holds true in C&P4 plate 65/ 14 & 15.
It also holds true in Fleming's images of these 2 species.
Les, you did ask about this a long while back but at that time I thought it was a variable feature.
Thus this should be Arhopala lurida.
TL Seow:cheers:
PS. An example of the local race A. atosia malayana showing postdiscal spots 4 & 5 staggered with no overlap.
http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...naMUpUnAC1.jpg
Same here! I can see no reason why it should not be next door to you!Quote:
Originally Posted by Glorious Begum
Thanks again TL Seow for the ID, Jonathan and LC for the nice words.
Les, you could find the Flos in Samui, yesterday I've seen 3/4 different individual.
Ok, 8 o'clock, time to go at the same location, hoping in a good hunting
:cheers: