Maliau Basin - Butterfly

[bluefin]

The Last (R) One.....



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[moloch]

Lovely shots, everyone. The trip was excellent and it was fun to meet up with other BC members. I learned much about how to attract butterflies and also better photo techniques. Hopefully, my photos will improve.

[Painted Jezebel]

It was great meeting you, too, David. I do so hope that I did not give you my cold! Are you back in Australia yet?

Our current total is 123 species! Hopefully Rose will be pleased.

I know of at least 4 more species which were photographed, but not yet identified. They are:
1) A Danaid, possibly of Ideopsis genus. (No idea whose)
2) A long tailed Lycaenid, with red/orange hindwings that could be a Drupadia sp. (No idea whose)
3) A Morphinae sp, poss. Zeuxidia sp. (David, yours I think)
4) A Satyrid, either Mycalesis or Ypthima, I can't remember which, with large spots on the hindwing. (David, another of yours I think)

[Glorious Begum]

Congrats to you. it is a very rare butt.

The Last (R) One.....

Graphium empedovana

[Glorious Begum]

Time & Sun also important.

Lovely shots, everyone. The trip was excellent and it was fun to meet up with other BC members. I learned much about how to attract butterflies and also better photo techniques. Hopefully, my photos will improve.

[Glorious Begum]

I won't be sending you any poops for sure. Others can be arranged.

I was beginning to suspect that you were sorcerers or went to school with Harry Potter and knew the secrets to attracting butterflies. So, now I know you have "Secret Formulas" A - F. Finding forumla CS is difficult here too.

Any chance of buying a small, plastic bottle of your favorite formula? I'd be interested in giving it a try here.

William

[moloch]

Les,
I stayed healthy and did not catch the cold. I hope that you have recovered from yours. Coughing and broken ribs are not a good combination!

My wife and I returned to KL this morning after a week at Fraser's Hill. It always is a top place for a visit. I will start a thread soon of the butterflies that I observed. I saw over a 100 species and photographed about 85 or so including a few that I think are uncommon or rare.

Here are a few more shots from Maliau. Please correct me if my identifications are not correct.

#1. Athyma pravara




#2. Neptis ilira (thanks Seow)



#3. Is this Athyma reta



#4. Another shot of the gorgeous Silver Royal (Ancema blanka).



#5. Ideopsis vulgaris (thanks, Les)



#6. Ypthima fasciata (thanks, Seow)



#7. Cirrochroa satellita



#8. Puddling butterflies that include the lovely Ixias pyrene undatus (thanks, Seow)

[moloch]

#9. I know that this is a common species but I like its colours. Orange Emigrant (Catopsilia scylla).



#10. A flat that stopped briefly at the bait one day. Odontoptilum Pygela Pygela (The Banded Angle) (thanks, LC)



... that is all from me.

[Painted Jezebel]

David, thanks for this. You have added two species that I was not aware of as well as providing two of the photos I was hoping to see. Did I get it wrong with the Morphinae underside photo?

It is Ideopsis vulgaris, but the ID of the Ypthima species still elludes me. Can anyone help?

Your Athyma species is actualy a Neptis sp. It looks very much like Neptis harita, but I am having trouble finding any records of it having been found on Borneo! Similar species, N. ilira and N. ormeroda are found in Borneo, but it does not look like them, to me. Maybe I have the wrong sources!

PS. Great I did not infect you, I was quite worried.

[moloch]

Did I get it wrong with the Morphinae underside photo?

No, not me.

Here is another photo that I forgot to post. The butterfly, unfortunately, was tattered and I cannot recognize it.
Neorina lowii (thanks, Seow)