Sumball's butterflies 2011

[Common Mime]

Hi Loke, yes, the open wing of the Common Pierrot.

Kinta Valley is the place where you and me grow up at. :P

[Common Mime]

USR

[Bluebottle]

Er, why 2D1N at Cameron?

[Psyche]

You have an interesting skipper from Cameron Highland which is very similar to Sunny's Zela storeyi pics.
The prominent diffuse cell-end bars/spots & a faint upper cellspot indicatees it is Zela zeus optimus.

TL Seow

[Peacock Royal]

You have an interesting skipper from Cameron Highland which is very similar to Sunny's Zela storeyi pics.
The prominent diffuse cell-end bars/spots & a faint upper cellspot indicatees it is Zela zeus optimus.
TL Seow

Seow, I think the label was wrong. Chee Ming shot that particular species at Upper Seletar Reservoir Park (USR) this morning.

[Psyche]

Seow, I think the label was wrong. Chee Ming shot that particular species at Upper Seletar Reservoir Park (USR) this morning.

I thought so too, which was why I came back to make a query.

It is probably also Zela storeyi.

There are just 2 things wrong with it.
1. The spot is too big.
2. The diffuse cel-end bars on both wings are prominent which is not the case with Z. storeyi.

TL Seow
PS. I did a rechecking by comparing Sunny's, Khew's, the paper by Dr. Kirton/Eliot and this pic.

1. The faint cellspot is probably an artefact.
2. The white spot is larger than in all the others, but probably possible.
3. The diffuse cell-end bars (the one on the forewing is just above the white spot) are harder to explain away.
It is not present in Sunny's pic & hardly in Khew's pic. In the revised paper, the bar is faint on the hindwing and absent on the forewing.
Only 2 species have the hindwing bar prominent Z. zeus & xenon.
So there is some definite doubt this is Z. storeyi.

[Painted Jezebel]

I must agree with Seow in that there is a definite doubt as to this being Z. storeyi. I attach a photo of Z. zeus optima and, to my mind, the end cell markings match this far more closely. I have no photo of Z. xenon, so I can not express any opinion on that species.

[Psyche]

I must agree with Seow in that there is a definite doubt as to this being Z. storeyi. I attach a photo of Z. zeus optima and, to my mind, the end cell markings match this far more closely. I have no photo of Z. xenon, so I can not express any opinion on that species.

Great, you have a nice shot of Z. zeus optima.
The small spot in space 6 may be missing or very faint (as seen in your pic).
Althugh ssp optima is found mainly in north Malaya, there is no reason it can not be found farther south.
This could also be a variation of ssp zeus.

I don't think this can be Z. zenon(spelling error in my previous post) as the large spot is quite quadrate in shape. In zenon this is suposed to be more rectangular.
Z. zenon is so rare in Malaya that only one specimen is known, caught by Fleming perhaps half a century ago.

TL Seow

[Common Mime]

Sorry for the misleading title on the individual photo. Correction made.

Thanks Seow and les for the discussion on the skipper. I did not know what I shot and asked Federick what this is when I bump into him. It did not give me a second chance to photography it.

Below are the rest of the shots on Saturday at USR.

[Common Mime]