Kaeng Krachan National Park 2nd part

[Psyche]

PS. Oops, sorry, Seow, but are 16 & 19 the same species? They look different, No. 19 has a cleaner ground colour and the marginal spots are larger, the other spots are darker.

Yes. They are the same. The size of the marginal spots varies. LD16 is very worn.
C. lavendularis is a common species so there are lots of images on the net.
Correction: The 2 spots on the HW dorsum only discount some of the Udara not all.
Here is one from India which matches LD 16 well.(ssp limbata differs on the topside with broad borders.)
http://67.222.45.13/ifoundbutterflie...kale_al949.jpg

TL Seow

[Glorious Begum]

I am not sure how you can shoot like that



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2ymqNmF63I

[Bluebottle]

I am not sure how you can shoot like that

In flight shot? Sure kena one

[bluefin]

In flight shot? Sure kena one

Butterflies in Flight.

[Great Mormon]

Thats one big cloud of butterflies!

[Painted Jezebel]

Sorry, I lied, 4 Arhopala!

1) I think thisis A. cleander.
2) ?
3) ?
4) ?

[bluefin]

Les, I believed this is one of your big +1.
You can extract the file from dropbox.

[Angiud]

A47 2 + 1 = 2


A48 The Marbled Map - Cyrestis cocles cocles


A49 The Evans's White Flat - Seseria strigata


A50 The Great Orange Tip - Hebomoia glaucippe glaucippe


A51 The Red-spot Sawtooth - Prioneris philonome clemathe


A52 The Quaker - Neopithecops zalmora zalmora


A53 The Cardinal - Thamala marciana

[Painted Jezebel]

Les, I believed this is one of your big +1.
You can extract the file from dropbox.

Thank you, I will.

For those who are wondering who the gentleman is, he is Dr. Ian Redmond, a well known British conservationist and regularly appears on TV. He, with a number of other conservationists were taking a week-end off from the CITES convention which was going on in Bangkok at the time we were in KK.

He asked me to do a talk-over of a film he was making of the puddling butts decribing what was happening. Needless to say I made a right mess of it!

[Psyche]

Sorry, I lied, 4 Arhopala!

1) I think thisis A. cleander.
2) ?
3) ?
4) ?

1 should be A. silhetensis. There are examples with broader spot 6 & 7. (see C&P4 plate 67.)
All examples of A. cleander have the inner margins of HW spot 6 & 7 in line.
In A. silhetensis, spot 7 is angled inwards forming a sinuous curve of both margins of 6 & 7.

2 is likely A. eumolphus ( A. horsfieldi cannot be discounted).
HW spot 6 very broad with outer notch; spot 7 on top; postdiscal band partially dislocated at V2; FW spot 4 shifted out; costal spot 10.

3 is likely A. atosia. HW spot 5, 6 & 7 in echelon;
FW spot 4 shifted outwards; HW spot 4 & 5 staggered, not in line.

4. is also A. atosia. Same reasons.

TL Seow