Samui 2012

[Painted Jezebel]

Apart from the Arhopala agaba posted elsewhere, nothing particularly unusual this week. Nevertheless, to show I have not been completely idle :

1&2) A nice male Hypolycaena erylus teatus (Common Tit)
3&4) A male Surendra quercetorum quercetorum (Common Acacia Blue)
5) Arhopala silhetensis ssp. indet. (Sylhet Oakblue). Not sure about the subspecies here. Possibly a new ssp. but I need to do more work to confirm certain matters.
6) Hidari irava (Coconut Skipper). I have always found this very common species rather boring, but this one seems to have a nice sheen to the wings, which I have not managed to capture before.

[Blue Jay]

The Coconut Skipper and Sylhet shots are beautiful.

[WillFolsom]

Les: How are things in terms of flooding. Understand very bad flooding to the north of you, especially Bankok. You manage to get around easily or with difficulty? William

[Painted Jezebel]

Sorry, William, I seemed to miss your comment. Thailand is a very long country, and, as such, different parts have different monsoon seasons. Up north, it is bad from June to September. However, where I live, on the east of the Peninsular, the rainy season is supposed to be from October to December/January. This years season has not been bad at all, compared to what we usually receive. The western side of the peninsular is different again (May to August).

This week has been very disappointing. Nothing of great interest.

1) Ariadne ariadne ariadne (Angled Castor). Very common at this time of year.
2) Potanthus species. P. ganda?
3) Mycalesis species.
4) I am pretty certain this is Ionolyce helicon merguiana (Pointed lineblue), but the forewing markings look a bit odd, to me.
5) Pelopidas sp. I am clutching at straws here in the hope that it might be P. agna, but I suspect that this is just another P. mathias!
6) This, at least, I know!. Loxura atymnus fuconius (Yamfly)

[Psyche]

2 is P. confucius. Spots all joined together & strongly concaved margins.

3 should be M. intermedia although the white band is not angled in at the top. Spot in space 2 exceptionally large & white shading prominent (differences from mineus.)

4 is correct. The forewing postdiscal band is dislocated into 4 spots.

5 is probably correct. P. agna. P. mathias is greyish ochreous & usually appear dark in photos. P. agna is largely ochreous. This should be male. Compare Monique's female.

TL Seow

[Painted Jezebel]

Thank you, Seow. I had discounted Potanthus confucius as the spots are not as strongly conjoined as in my existing photos, as below.

[Psyche]

Thank you, Seow. I had discounted Potanthus confucius as the spots are not as strongly conjoined as in my existing photos, as below.

I think your post 8 P. confucius is more typical as most pics eg C&P4 & Fleming show that form.

TL Seow

[Psyche]

After the couple of oopsies with Brian's "P. confucius" I thought I better have a 2nd look at some of the other P. confucius.

Your broad-banded confucius is actually a female Taractrocera archias.
The clincher is the crescent spot in the centre of the left hindwing.

TL Seow