Some Butterfly Sighting Records in 2012

Shot at PRP last Saturday (29 Jan)

Quite a few King Crows (Euploea phaenareta castelnaui) feeding on one particular flowering Syzygium tree

The 3rd shot puzzles me, but I think it is more likely to be King crow ?

Some shots taken in the past two weeks.
1. Anthene emolus goberus (Ciliate Blue)
2. Caleta elna elvira (Elbowed Pierrot) & Ionolyce helicon merguiana (Pointed Line Blue) ?
3. Tagiades calligana (The Malayan Snowflat) - No, it should be Tagiades gana gana (Large Snow Flat)
4. Jamides celeno aelianus (Common Caerulean)
5. Symbrenthia but which species ? - pity that I had only one shot
6. Miletus biggsii biggsii (Biggs's Brownie)
7. Hypolimnas anomala anomala (Malayan Eggfly)

Congrates Federick , for adding Symbrenthia to the Singapore Checklist!

It has not been recorded here before (C&P4).

http://www.butterflycircle.com/forum...1&d=1330177181

Looks like Symbrenthia hippoculus selangorana ( The Common Jester )

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Wow, congrats Fed, you did it again!! :redbounce :jumjoy: :gbounce: :redbounce

Well done, Federick :thumbsup:

Thanks guys. It was all due to luck.
Need to have more shots to confirm the id.

Congrats, Federick. :cheers::cheers::cheers:

Great Job Federick:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :cheers:

Do you have an upper of that 'J. celeno ? It looks a bit odd.

TL Seow:cheers:

That Tagiades calligana looks closer to Tagiades gana featured in the photo checklist. :thinking:

Thanks Horace, you are right.

:cheers: Must be another FT wanting to come over to Singapore. :bsmile:

Pity there was no sign of it today. ;P

Congrats Federick!!!

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congrats!

Congratulations on finding the Jester, Fed. What was the habitat like in which you found it?

I'm yet to see any of this Genus up here:thumbsdow , though it is on my list of 'possibles'.

Horace is right about that Tagiades but I am intrigued about that Jamides.
Although C&P4 shows an example of J. pura with perfect alignment of the striae I have wondered if this is always so. Moreover J. pura is not considered a rare species.

As usual the net shows a huge amount of conflicting images. To make matter worst both J. celeno & J. pura are highly variable with regional differences as well.
Here is a correct image of J. pura female from Koh Phangan.
( hindwing space 6 not completely darkened. ) Note striae not perfectly aligned.
http://www.neutron.phys.ethz.ch/Lepi...e/P2060013.JPG

Here is the underside of the same specimen.
http://www.neutron.phys.ethz.ch/Lepi...e/P2060014.JPG
Note the marginal & submarginal spots are dark & the striae rather broad.

Compare with more typical J. celeno female on the right here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/federic...in/photostream

Here is another example of possibly J. pura also by Federick in 2009.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0EK80AsaR7...-Caerulean.jpg

It is possible we have J. pura all along.

TL Seow:cheers:

Federick, congrats on the new find :cheers:

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Originally Posted by Psyche

Great Job Federick:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :cheers:
Do you have an upper of that 'J. celeno ? It looks a bit odd.
TL Seow:cheers:

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Thanks Seow.
Sorry, I don't have a proper upperside shot. But to tell you the feeling when I saw this guy fluttering around - it didn't look liike a typical J. celeno that I am sure of. It took me a while to look at the checklist to come out with the id waiting to be confirm (that;s why I put (TBC) in the filename of the shot).

Attached is another shot taken in a breeze.

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Originally Posted by Painted Jezebel

Congratulations on finding the Jester, Fed. What was the habitat like in which you found it?
I'm yet to see any of this Genus up here:thumbsdow , though it is on my list of 'possibles'.

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Thanks Les.
This guy was seen puddling when I took a shot. The surroundng areas can be considered as forested. I spotted a Choclolate Sailor as well as an orange butterfly glidiing at the canopy level along the fringe of a fenced-up forested area yesterday morning.

I think we need a lot of luck and patience to nail this bugger again.

Just as you said, Federick! Hard work and luck. Just got the latest news from a lil' butt that our top butt hunter has nailed it! :redbounce

So let's look forward to the post of this new discovery by this evening. Thanks to you for spotting it! :cheers:

Congrats Federick! :cheers: for a +1

:)It was nothing happening where Federick shot his. My hunch tells me they must be somewhere in the adjacent forest . Decided to go in there for a hunt instead of the fruitless wait. .....must have covered 3-4 kilometers....the Butterfly Fairy smiled ...and saw this fluttering in the bush.

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...2---2857-3.jpg

Not the best of specimen I must admit, with the right hind wing torn... nevertheless it should be good enough to confirm that we have Symbrenthia hippoclus selangorana on our island. This appears to be a female. Upper and lower wing markings confirm with Pisuth Plate 158 N32 Symbrenthia hippoclus selangorana

The location of this shot was quite far away and deep in the forest from where Federick nailed his. .... There were other specimen around but they were all high and dry and just refused to come down to entertain me.

It is a rather small butterfly about the size of the Lasippa tiga siaka (The Malayan Lascar). It has the same flap-and-glide flight characteristic of the Lascar and it is almost indistinguishable in flight . It is very skittish and a high flyer.

Will bring a director chair and a cool box of beer to wait them out the next round!:bsmile:

Symbrenthia hippoclus selangorana or Symbrenthia lilaea luciana ??

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...012---2919.jpg

Record shot upper forewing marking

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...012---2880.jpg

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What great determination and what a reward, Sunny.:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

It is a female S. hippoclus selangorana alright.

Although the text in C&P4 states that the spot in space 3 on the forewing is wholly pinkish in the female of S. hippoclus, this is nigh impossible to see in a pic on a screen.
I have found an important ID aid ie. on the hindwing the squarish discal spot in space 7 is clear yellow-brown in S. lilaea and partly or wholly shaded in S. hippoclus. Here it is wholly shaded.
The underside hindwing is also more heavily dark-dusted.
The upperside is very variable.

TL Seow:cheers:

Well done, Sunny. :cheers: Can always depend on you to hunt them down. :bsmile:

Next will be to send our cat farming expert, Horace, to nail down the life history. :grin2:

Well done Sunny. The underside shot is great

Wow, great effort, Sunny.:thumbsup::cheers::cheers:
3-4 kms away is definitely well into the no-man land and not a place to wander there during weekdays. :thinking:

Wow wow wow!!! :what: :what: :what:

Congrats to Uncle Fedrick and Uncle Sunny! :cheers:

I never expected to see this here!!

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Originally Posted by horace2264

Wow, great effort, Sunny.:thumbsup::cheers::cheers:
3-4 kms away is definitely well into the no-man land and not a place to wander there during weekdays. :thinking:

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Horace,

Not that far away........ I'd covered 3-4 kms searching, before stumbled on them.

WOW, congrats to you Federick and Sunny ! :cheers: . +1 for our checklist :redbounce

Well done Sunny.

Thanks Fed, for the habitat details, and also Sunny, for the flight style details. I must take more interest in the Lasippa looking butts in the future!!!

Found a third shot of a possible J. pura female by Federick in Seletar Wasteland Dec. 2011.
Note thick white striae on forewing & sharper contrast of markings.
This one had laid an egg.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0EK80AsaR7...ulean%2529.jpg

TL Seow:cheers:

Sunny: Congratulations form across the pond. Nothing i can do but enjoy your postings... one better than the other! William

Congrats on the find Sunny! :cheers:

Blog updated with the article of Federick's and Sunny's find of this new species to Singapore. :)

Congratulation to Fed and Sunny!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Cheers!

A few recent sightings.

1. Catochrysops panormus exiguus (Silver Forget-me-not)
2. Anthene lycaenina miya (Pointed Ciliate Blue)
3. Taxila haquinus haquinus (Harlequin)
4(a). Euthalia merta merta (White Tipped Baron) ?
4(b) Underside shot

Wah... the White Tipped Baron is back after all these years?? At USR again?

This time it appeared at a trail near the UPR entrance.

Shot near UPR two weeks ago.
1. Arhopala major major
2. Arhopala athada athada (Vinous Oakblue)
Am I right ?

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Originally Posted by Peacock Royal

Shot near UPR two weeks ago.
1. Arhopala major major
2. Arhopala athada athada (Vinous Oakblue)
Am I right ?

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Yes. The A. major even have a bit of the upper for confirmation.

TL Seow:cheers:

Thanks Seow
A few shots taken in the forest.
1 and 2 (Same individual) : Ypthima baldus newboldi or Ypthima horsfieldii humei ?

3 and 4 : Athyma pravara helma (Lance Sergeant)
5. Mycalesis mineus macromalayana (Dark Brand Bush Brown) ?