Some Butterfly Sighting Records in 2012

[Peacock Royal]

A few shots from last few outings.

1 and 2 : Euploea crameri bremeri (Spotted Black Crow)
3. Lampides boeticus (Pea Blue) at Ubin
4. Phalanta phalantha phalantha (Leopard) at Ubin
5. Rapala iarbus iarbus (Common Red Flash)

[WillFolsom]

Guessing a couple of those butterflies where looking for salt? Looks like you had an enjoyable outing. William

[Psyche]

5 is Rapala dieneces male (note oval mark on hindwing. This one has broad wings.)
(R. iarbus is lighter & the postdiscal line above the blueish patch is a slanted line.)
R. dieneces & suffusa are very similar. Here is a suffusa pair. Not sure if male is always this yellow.
http://www.butterflycircle.com/forum...5&d=1240904105

TL Seow

[Commander]

Interesting mosquito on the 2nd Spotted Black Crow

[Silverstreak]

Concur with Seow the Rapala is not a Common Red Flash.

looking at the yellow around the tornal spot ... is it possible that this is a Rapala suffusa barthema (Suffused Flash) ?

http://www.butterflycircle.com/check...wbutterfly/207

[Psyche]

Concur with Seow the Rapala is not a Common Red Flash.

looking at the yellow around the tornal spot ... is it possible that this is a Rapala suffusa barthema (Suffused Flash) ?

http://www.butterflycircle.com/check...wbutterfly/207

There is a possibility of course, but the ID of the male is based on the upperside, brownish red in suffusa (all on the hindwing) and bright-red in dieneces (dark basal patch on hindwing).
In the females, the underside of suffusa is yellow & dieneces ,pale buff brown.

Fleming does mentioned in the female suffusa underside' note orange over tornal spot conspicuous'.
This is rather vague. In the typical male & female suffusa (yellow form) this can hardly be seen.

Perhaps members can note the upperside colour of the male when it takes flight.
Yutaka website is of little help as it is low-res. & all details are lost on zooming.

TL Seow
PS. Moore's original description of the type, a male, states the underside as dull sulphur-yellow.
http://www.archive.org/stream/procee...e/834/mode/1up
Distant descibed the underside of female of ssp barthema as yellow.
The male he later noted as allied to domitia in colour minus the black spots.
http://www.archive.org/stream/rhopal...e/280/mode/1up

[Peacock Royal]

This is another shot that reveals a little glimpse of the upperside - I must say that its reddish-orange upperside was rather intense when it was in flight - thinking that it is a Common Red Flash - that's why I didn't take a closer look at its underside, forgetting that the uppersides of the male Scarlet Flash (R. dieneces) is reddish-orange also.
I am not sure how intense the "reddishness" of the male Suffused Flash (R. suffusa barthema ) is.