North Sulawesi

[atronox]

post #106
#1 Parantica cleona
#2 Idea blanchardii
#3 and #4 Ideopsis vitrea

[Psyche]

Post 64
4 is Orsotriaena jopas jopas. Note absent of tornal ocelli.

TL Seow

[teotp]

Thanks Teo.


On with the Pics,

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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.

Teo T P

[teotp]

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Cepora celebensis celebensis





Appias hombroni hombroni





Appias zarinda zarinda

1. Parantica cleona luciplena.
2. Idea blanchardii blanchardii.
3. Un. & Upp. Ideopsis vitrea vitrea (male).
4. Graphium eurypylus pamphylus.
The remaining: Well done Nelson.

Teo T P

(Note for Aaron: You are on the right track now, well done too.

[teotp]

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.

RE: # 107
Cyrestis thyonneus celebensis.

Teo T P

[teotp]

Post 64
4 is Orsotriaena jopas jopas. Note absent of tornal ocelli.

TL Seow

RE: #64, 4.
Underside forewing has another ocellus in space 3 as well as underside hindwing with 4 ocelli. Orsotriaerna sp. has a prominent clear white stripe but the white stripe in photo with diffused outer margin. What do you think?

Teo T P

[Psyche]

RE: #64, 4.
Underside forewing has another ocellus in space 3 as well as underside hindwing with 4 ocelli. Orsotriaerna sp. has a prominent clear white stripe but the white stripe in photo with diffused outer margin. What do you think?

Teo T P

All the Mycalesis spp. have the tornal ocelli in space 1b.

The female of O. jopas have a diffuse band.
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/butterflies...nae/jopasF.jpg

O. medus have the usual big spots.
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/butterflies...nae/medusM.jpg

TL Seow
PS. How do you differentiate between J. aratus & fractilinea? I find the undersides practically identical.

[Painted Jezebel]

Re post 113 - So the two Cyrestis specimens are different, Hooray!!! Thank you.

I think that, apart from my notorious post #64 Satyrid, we are up to date with IDs, so I can start posting again!

1&2) Pareronia tritaea tritaea (male)
3&4) Pareronia tritaea tritaea (female)
5&6) Papilio ascalaphus ascalaphus - Typical feeding Papilio, never still!
7&8) Vindula erota banta - though there is some talk of upgrading the Sulawesi specimens to a distict species which would be Vindula boetonensis banta!

[teotp]

All the Mycalesis spp. have the tornal ocelli in space 1b.

The female of O. jopas have a diffuse band.
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/butterflies...nae/jopasF.jpg

O. medus have the usual big spots.
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/butterflies...nae/medusM.jpg

TL Seow
PS. How do you differentiate between J. aratus & fractilinea? I find the undersides practically identical.

I cann't see the images of O. jopas and O. medus posted.

J. fractilinea has a bluish tinge (underside), larger and is from Sulawesi but J. aratus without any bluish, smaller as illustrated by D''Abrera and distributions are Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Borneo and Palawan (but 'DÁbrera have not indicated it is from Sulawesi). The forewing uppersides of males (the forewing marginal black stripe extended to the apex for J. fractilinea and without a submarginal faint black stripe) and females have more different features.

Teo T P

[Painted Jezebel]

I cann't see the images of O. jopas and O. medus posted.

J. fractilinea has a bluish tinge (underside), larger and is from Sulawesi but J. aratus without any bluish, smaller as illustrated by D''Abrera and distributions are Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Borneo and Palawan (but 'DÁbrera have not indicated it is from Sulawesi). The forewing uppersides of males (the marginal black stripe extended to the apex) and females have more different features.

Teo T P

I can't see them either.

VW&dJ gives J. aratus lunata from Sulawesi.