North Sulawesi

[teotp]

Hi, Mr Teo, i double checked with the funet website and d' abrera, the only Anthene on Sulawesi are licates, philo and villosa

Les answered on behalf, Aaron. (See # 149.)

Teo T P

[teotp]

Unfortunately there are no upperside shots. This one is very skittish and those are already highly cropped pictures.

Thanks Teo.

Id of 3. and 4. posted (see edited #138).

Teo T P

[teotp]

Re Post #132 and reply #141.

Thanks very much for the IDs. And I was so sure of the Abisara sp. (pics 1&2)! Duly corrected.

Sorry, no upperside of the Udara sp.

Thank you Les for answering Aaron's question for me.

Apprently you missed one of the striae between the large postdiscal white band and the termen.

Is all right. The undersides of the Udara photo is enough for me to id it as J. N. Eliot and A. Kawazoe gave detailed seperation keys in their book for this species with both upperside and underside illustrations. Is me wanted to see the upperside.

Teo T P

[Glorious Begum]

I find hard to trace the corect ID as there were a few correction here and there.

Appreciate if you could go back to your picture and update with correct name. Thanks to all.

[Glorious Begum]

It is a highlight of the trip to sight the below 2 Graphium.
Hopefully I get the ID right for both.

Graphium rhesus is of similar size to the Five Bar Swordtail and it only stops intermittently, it simply does not pay attention to our Formula B. Graphium androcles is huge and it will definitely make its presence felt when in flight. it also does not give a hoot to the Formula B.

Hopefully we will be able to get a picture of Graphium dorcus butungensis and also have better shots of the below 2 when we visit Sulawesi again. (Most Probably South Sulawesi)



Graphium rhesus rhesus






Graphium androcles androcles

Very nice Nelson, I missed both also.

[bluefin]

Very nice Nelson, I missed both also.

Thanks LC. No problem lah, we go back and nail these two.

[bluefin]

Thanks again to Teo, Seow, Aaron, Sunny and Les for spending your invaluable time and knowledge in IDing the butties.

[Painted Jezebel]

My last 3 for this particular thread.

1) An Allotinus species - I do not expect an ID, this is just to confirm we saw one!
2) Cethosia sp. - Normally, on Samui, I find this Genus to be excellent models. This one was different, refusing to come down to a decent height.
3) A beautiful butterfly, Papilio peranthus insulicola, or it would be if pristine. This was the only one we saw who posed. It was not uncommon, but every one we saw was flying fast, so we have had to make do with this very worn specimen!

[atronox]

Lacewing is Cethosia myrina myrina

[atronox]

There are four species on Sulawesi. A. licates, A. philo, A. villosa and A. lycaenina. (Vane-Wright and de Jong 2003).

Oops, sry about that; wasn't aware that lycaenina was recorded recently from Sulawesi.