North Sulawesi

[Silverstreak]

...... is there a better way to manage this thread to make it easier to follow.....???

As it is , it is very tedious , especially when images are as attachments, as these attachment cannot be quoted during the identification/explaination process, so Seow and Teo have to refer to the post.

Readers then have to shuffle to and fro from the identification post to the pictures which can be on a different page, where the attachment is a composite of a number of species.

Ideally the posted shots should be numbered as a quotable individual item , so that the identification process can be done together with the posted photo individually , this will make it much easier for everyone to follow.

What do you think?

or

Any other suggestion to make this more efficient and easier to follow??

Cheers!

[teotp]

RE: # 91.

Les, I have to ask the following questions before I post my reply for #91.
a. Why the underside of photo 2 so greenish and what is the original colour?
b. Where is Tangkoko region (North Sulawesi?)

Teo T P

[Painted Jezebel]

Re post 91, pic 2 -

I have reduced the green slightly, but it still looks very much as I remember it.

Tangkoko Nature reserve is about 1 1/2 hours drive east of Manado, N. Sulawesi, and it is an Estuarine Forest, on the eastern coast of this N.E. arm of the island, near Bitung.

[Painted Jezebel]

...... is there a better way to manage this thread to make it easier to follow.....???

As it is , it is very tedious , especially when images are as attachments, as these attachment cannot be quoted during the identification/explaination process, so Seow and Teo have to refer to the post.

Readers then have to shuffle to and fro from the identification post to the pictures which can be on a different page, where the attachment is a composite of a number of species.

Ideally the posted shots should be numbered as a quotable individual item , so that the identification process can be done together with the posted photo individually , this will make it much easier for everyone to follow.

What do you think?

or

Any other suggestion to make this more efficient and easier to follow??

Cheers!

Sunny, I understand what you are saying, but there is little that can be done when there are so many different species to be shown by a number of people.

That is why I started the seperate thread for the Hesperiidea, as I knew that they would make it very messy.

It is probably too late now, but we could have done one of two things:
1) Open threads for each location visited (Bogani Nani, Kali, Tangkoko and Minahasa) or
2) Open threads for the individual families.

We have not posted anything from the last named location, so I propose that we open a new thread just for the Highlands. What do you think? Will it help?

We certainly need to bear these two options in mind for future group outings.

[bluefin]

RE # 79

Beautiful shots and correct identification.

Teo T P

Thanks Teo.


On with the Pics,

1. Melanitis phedima linga





2. Cyrestis heracles heracles




3. Cyrestis thyonneus celebensis





4. Euploea hewitsonii hewitsonii.




5. (L): Ideopsis juventa tontoliensis, (C): I. juventa tontoliensis and (R): Euploea algea kirbyi.





6. Jamides fractilinea

[bluefin]

1. Parantica cleona luciplena





2. Idea blanchardii blanchardii





3.Ideopsis vitrea vitrea (male)







4. Graphium eurypylus pamphylus.





Cepora celebensis celebensis





Appias hombroni hombroni





Appias zarinda zarinda

[Painted Jezebel]

Nelson, I, too, noticed the difference in the shades of the two Cyrestis Post #105, (pics 2&3), but I had tentatively placed them both as Cyrestis thyonneus celebensis. I hope I am mistaken!

Here is the underside of the darker specimen.

[teotp]

Re post 91, pic 2 -

I have reduced the green slightly, but it still looks very much as I remember it.

Tangkoko Nature reserve is about 1 1/2 hours drive east of Manado, N. Sulawesi, and it is an Estuarine Forest, on the eastern coast of this N.E. arm of the island, near Bitung.

Thank you Les for the information.

RE 91:
1. & 2. Athyma libnites libnites.
3. & 4. Moduze lymire lymire.
5. & 6. Appias zarinda zarinda (female). Illustrated in: Yata et al, (2010) Systematic Entomology 35: 764-800, Fig. G & H; D'Abrera (1982) figures on page 159 & Yata et al, Butts. of SEA Islands vol 2 page 98, 1985.
7. Another photo of Danaus ismare alba.

Teo T P

Note for Aaron: Well done of the id on 1 to 4.

[Painted Jezebel]

Thank Aaron, Teo.

The female Appias zarinda zarinda was a surprise, I would never have guessed, thinking it was propably a Nymphalid!

I wonder if the females are as elusive as those of A. nero!

[atronox]

The Jamides sp. is interesting.
Can't be certain about the id but based on the configuration of the forewing striae i think it's closest to aratus or one of the related spp.