Even though I went for butterfly-hunting on most of the weekends, I have not been posting butterfly shots here for a while due to rather low butterfly activities in the last few months. Yesterday, for the first time this year I was able to snap more than 50 shots in one outing at Sha Lo Wan, Lantau Island.
99a. Likely to be Aeromachus jhora ? [Note : HK has both A. jhora and A. pygmaeus
99b.
100. Which Pelopidas ? P. agna or P. mathias?
101. Parnara guttata
102. Barbo cinnara
103. Catochrysops panormus exiguus
104 A female Common Hedge Blue (Acytolepis puspa gisca) or something else?
105. Megisba malaya sikkima
Last edited by Peacock Royal; 12-Nov-2017 at 11:52 PM.
Butterfly activities in Hong Kong this year (2018) was rather low in the past 3 - 4 months. However, we have started to see improvement in the last two weeks. I will post some of the shots here in batches.
101: Sinthusa nasaka- not sure if this is a different subspecies from that of SG!
102: Caltoris cahira - Need confirmation!
103: Cyrestis thyodamas chinensis - at last I got a better shot of the underside.
It is probable there are many more unrecorded species of butterflies in HK.
102. The strongly bowed FW, dark antennae suggest Baoris.
This appear to be correct for Baoris penincillata chapmani or sometimes elevated to Baoris chapmani.
There is reduction in FW spots. Here only two subapicals ( spot 6 & 7) are present. Spots 4 & 5 are absent.
The nos. of spots present are very variable. http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/med...779ae1f0-2.jpg
106. This has no spots on the HW & no FW subapical spots.
Although it has some resemblance to P. bevani it is not it. P. bevani have small FW spots , UnH spots & antennae with pale areas. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8468/8...efa00688_h.jpg
Caltoris can sometimes have reduced spotting &the UnH is unspotted.
This matches the description of Caltoris tenuis which Evans described as having greenish yellow hair on the body & similar scales on the UnH.
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