Wow!! You got a Drina maneia! This is an very rare species in Thailand. Incidentally, it is called the Blue Yam. (Brown Yam is Drina donina, which is very different)
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Wow!! You got a Drina maneia! This is an very rare species in Thailand. Incidentally, it is called the Blue Yam. (Brown Yam is Drina donina, which is very different)
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From the more scalloped lower termen of the forewing, I gathered the Helen is a male Papilio nephelus chaon.
From the Yutaka map, ssp annulus (Which may have the forewing unmarked) falls short of your area.
TL Seow
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Another short visit to this beautiful hard to visit National Park (close to my wife's family) and I got a few shots. It looks like on the west side of Thailand, after the end of the raining season, is not the best time for butterflies.
This what I got:
The Chocolate Demon - นิลกายธรรมดา
The Blue Count - เคาท์ขอบฟ้า
The Great Marquis - มาควิสใหญ่ bad shot but a not so common species
The Fulvous Pied Flat - ลายต่างตาลแดง
The Knight - สะพายขาวปีกโค้ง
The Columbine - น้อยขาวดำ just the chance to get one shot!
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The Tufted Jungleking - เจ้าป่
The Blue Yam - หนอนกลอยสีฟ้า another (bad) shot of this very rare Yam
The Lesser Bushbrown
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Not the best time!?
That is a spectacular collection!
The pattern on the columbine is really interesting, and congrats on the blue yam!
cheers
Jonathan
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You really must talk a walk up to Hin Lad Waterfall, I'll show you about a hundred of these in 1/2 hour! You need to walk in deeper forest on KP I think!Originally Posted by Angiud
I reckon it is the commonest forest butterfly on Samui, together with Cyrestis themire.
But congratulations on the Stiboges upperside. Most unusual, as we only normally get to see the underside, and you got the Drina again.
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One more short trip, with Les and after Langkawi. The park is not so crowded yet, but we manage in one and half day to get something interesting:
Not a common encounter
2 Pallid Faun mating - Melanocyma faunula faunula
A first for me
The Common Gem - Poritia hewitsoni regia
After along hunting, a close-up shot of the rare Drina maneia
The Blue Yam - Drina maneia
A couple of nice Lantern Bugs:
The Dark-horned Lanternfly - Pyrops spinolae
Lanternbug - Pyrops karenia and not, as before ID,Pyrops candelaria
A moth
Callidula sp.
And a beautiful Peacock
The Green Peafowl
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All beautiful!
Great shots for sure! Must have been so much fun... plus, you just whistle and they fly and land on your hand... or wherever you want them for a great photo.
William
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Excellent shots of some rarities, Antonio!
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