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A 3 hours walk in Koh Phangan
Today, in my almost daily walk for health and pictures, I've found some (for me) good species on picture:
The Plain Tiger
The Painted Lady - Upperside
The Painted Lady - Underside
The Glistening Caerulean
The Indian Cupid
The Club Silverline
Plus some more still to post on Flickr. I hope to ID everything right, if not I trust in the huge benevolence of the this forum
Last edited by Angiud; 09-Oct-2011 at 01:51 PM.
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Same location, a few days before:
A Dart eating
The Long Banded Silverline
The Common Sailor
The Common Tit
The Tawny Coster
Les, you are welcome to a day trip to this location, just 45' from Bangrak (Samui) by Haad Rin Queen boat
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Nice collection of shots.
It is great to be able to combine the two activities.Today, in my almost daily walk for health and pictures, I've found some (for me) good species on picture:
Where in Italy was your home? I am amazed at how much walking the Italians do. All of the trails seem to be straight up or down mountains. Today, my wife and I walked from Amalfi to Ravello and one section of the trail alone had over 400 steps. It was almost depressing to look up and see an "endless" stairway up the hill.
Looks like the weather is good in Thailand. No rain yet?
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Congrats on the Painted Lady. This only passes us, in tiny numbers, on migration, and I am slightly surprised as to you finding it now. My only specimen was found in March, after the rains, not before. I am sure someone must have written a paper about the migration of this amazing species, but I have not been able to find it.
Your Jamides species in not the Common Cerulean (Jamides celeno), belongs to the elpis subgroup. To my mind, this is Jamides alecto agelidas (Metallic Cerulean).
I can not help re the Dart. I NEVER get these right however hard I try, and am embarrassed to admit that I now have to rely on others to help.
I had a quick look at your flickr page and noticed one error. Your two photos of the Jacintha eggfly are incorrect. They are the male Danaid Eggfly (Hypolimnas misippus misippus). This is the 9th species you have now on KP that I have been unable to locate on KS yet! STOP IT!!!!!!!!!
David, yes we are having rain here, but it is very localised. Very often KS and KP have completely different conditions, it was not great here on KS yesterday, but I could see blue sky over KP.
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To Les
The Painted Lady:
Is the first time I see this butterfly. It was on the side of a dirty small road with the ubiquitous small flower like an Asteracea (the same on the pic with the Dart), not so confident, but enough to take a few shots. It was alone, in the same area with many Tigers and some Crow.
Jamides
Thanks for the correction!
Danaid Eggfly
Thanks for the correction and sorry to find so many new species here in Koh Phangan
To David
I'm lucky, being in a small island, the weather change rapidly, but the monsoon still not changed and not so hard like in the North and middle of Thailand, with big flooding now.
I'm from Rome and I'm amazed to know that Italians walk a lot, maybe something is changed in the 10 years I'm out of my country
The "Costiera Amalfitana" and the "Penisola Sorrentina" are beautiful and you were smart to choose these locations for your holiday (not to forget the "Cinque Terre"!). And you are lucky too because this is one of the most sunny and warm September in the last 50 years.
And great food and wine all around there!
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It is about 10 days I go checking this new area (close to one of my business so easy to find a couple of free hours in the morning
The Danaid Eggfly - underside
The Danaid Eggfly
The Common Line Blue
The Malayan
Last edited by Angiud; 04-Oct-2011 at 12:24 PM.
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The Jamides is more likely to be J. elpis since the white striae of the discal band (the band that continue downwards from the cell-end bar) are not broaden.
The Dart with the upper end of the hindwing band connected serially to 2 other spots in space 6 & 7, plus the black blotches is one of three, namely P. trachala, confucius & pava. )
Best guess is probably P. confucius.
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More nice shots. I like that Danaid Eggfly.
Very true, Antonio. The locals are all commenting on how warm it is. Most days are in the mid 20s.The "Costiera Amalfitana" and the "Penisola Sorrentina" are beautiful and you were smart to choose these locations for your holiday (not to forget the "Cinque Terre"!). And you are lucky too because this is one of the most sunny and warm September in the last 50 years.
And great food and wine all around there!
This trip was my wifes 60th birthday present. She has set the itinerary and decided on the visits to Cinque Terre and the Amalfi Coast. Both are so beautiful. I will have more shots to add to my post but right now, my computer wont recharge so I have to use an internet cafe and cannot do any photoprocessing.
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Oh dear, I hoped you would not say that! Now I'm up to 10 species to find here.Originally Posted by Psyche
The Jamides is more likely to be J. elpis since the white striae of the discal band (the band that continue downwards from the cell-end bar) are not broaden.
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As always, when there is a correction to one of my suggestions, I check my own photos.
Below is, firstly one that I have as J. alecto, the second is Antonio's J. elpis.
As far as I can see, the only difference of any significance is that the underside hindwing basal band is broken from the cell to space 7 in J. alecto, whereas it is continuous in J. elpis. Is this normal, or is it a red herring?
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