Maliau Basin - Butterfly

[bluefin]

1st lycaenid looks like a Sinthusa privata.

Thanks Aaron for assisting in the ID.


Tks everyone, the Silver Royal is indeed a spectacular one.

[bluefin]

Three Jays portrait, a sunbeam and a commander.


Graphium doson (Common Jay)




Graphium evemon (Blue Jay)




Graphium bathycles (Veined Jay)

[Psyche]

Last lycaenid could be a very worn out Drupadia cinderella or even a D. cindi. I'm not so confident about this one.

Seow, this is just a suggestion for you to consider. Do you think the last lycaenid in LC's set, post 29, might be Drupadia cindi? I ask because it seems to have the hindwing markings as stated in C&P4, and apparently, it was small ( I have no experience with this species). If not, I am completely at a loss for this one.

Les , you are probably right. I dont have a pic of D. cindi.
Here is one of cinderella
http://imgp-a.dena.ne.jp/exp3/201104...54864775_2.JPG
The markings are bigger. Both are Bornean endemics.

TL Seow
BTW, it is Paralaxita. Typo error.

[Painted Jezebel]

Thanks so much for the D.cindarella photo. It seems I will have to rethink the one I thought may have been that species (also one I took at Danum Valley!). The photo does, however, make me feel more confident about the ID of D. cindi.

[Glorious Begum]

More unknown

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#3 Dacalana vidura ?

[Glorious Begum]

Are these the same Prioneris thestylis ?

[Glorious Begum]

Thaumantis odana




Kalima limborgii





Coelites epiminthia





Paralaxita orphna





Erites argentina

[Glorious Begum]

Spot the difference.

[Painted Jezebel]

Are these the same Prioneris thestylis ?

According to C&P4, P. thestylis is confined to the mainland. I think these should be P. cornelia.

[Painted Jezebel]

#3 Dacalana vidura ?

I don't think it can be D. vidura. According to funet.fi, there are two species of Dacalana on Borneo, both endemic. D. lowii of the vidura group, and D. sannio of the cotys group.

The difference between the two groups is that the vidura group males have a brand on the forewings, and those of the cotys group do not.

This is likely to remain a 'Dacalana sp. indet'. I do not think anyone of us managed an upperside shot of it.