Koh Phangan 2012

[WillFolsom]

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

[moloch]

Nice ones, Antonio.

I must seriously start to dispose of the many kilos in excess!

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.


Regards,

[Angiud]

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:


The Common Red Flash


Who am I?

[Blue Jay]

When I first looked at the second photo, I thought that it was the head of some sort of insect!

Congrats on the +1, Uncle Antonio

[Angiud]

This morning a 3 hours walk in a nice track in a secondary forest gave me some good satisfaction, sun, sweat and Lycaenids.


An Oakblue
Arhopala lurida? atosia malayana? I dunno...


The Tamil Oakblue


The White-stained Oakblue


The Ciliate Blue, upper view


The Common Tit


The Malayan Sunbeam corrected

And dulcis in fundo, the rare Flos diardi capeta in a good shot "BC style" (soft background)


The Bifid Plushblue

[Banded Yeoman]

The flos shot is amazing!
It is definitely one of the finest I've seen.

[Glorious Begum]

Nice shot of Flos, I am yet to find one over here. Must work harder.

[Psyche]

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
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

[Painted Jezebel]

Nice shot of Flos, I am yet to find one over here. Must work harder.

Same here! I can see no reason why it should not be next door to you!

[Angiud]

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