Butterfly Sightings 2014

[Bluebottle]

Beautiful series, Cher Hern
Did you drive up?

[Blue Nawab]

Thanks Dr Seow!

13. Female Jamides bochus nabonassar. Note striae sharp-pointed barb at HW inner margin indicating Jamides.

15. Female Laringa castelnaui castelnaui.

TL Seow:Cheers.

Thanks Loke. I flew to IPOH and took a taxi up to Cameron Highlands.

Beautiful series, Cher Hern
Did you drive up?

[Blue Nawab]

Club Silverline (Spindasis syama terana)


Long Banded Silverline (Spindasis lohita senama)



Bush Hopper (Ampittia dioscorides camertes)

[Banded Yeoman]

Beautiful silverline shots!!!!

Especially the upperside.
Were they at the usual place?

[Blue Nawab]

Thanks Jon! The place has changed a lot, all the plants are fully grown.

Beautiful silverline shots!!!!

Especially the upperside.
Were they at the usual place?

[Blue Nawab]

Small Branded Swift (Pelopidas mathias mathias)

[Blue Nawab]

Dark Blue Jungle Glory (Thaumantis klugius lucipor)

[Blue Nawab]

White Banded Awl(Hasora taminatus malayana)(Dr Seow, is this correct? Thanks!)

[Psyche]

Post 58.
I think it is fair to leave it as you have labelled it.
Yutaka have shown that two taxa bhavara & malayana overlaps in a large area in Inddochina.
However, it is not as simple as that.
The difference between the two appeared to be very slight.
Taxon bhavara have a duller weaker blue-green sheen & the white band tends to have streaky outer margin.
Taxon malayana have deeper blue sheen & a thin white band.
There are individual variations & it can be difficult to be sure which is what.

http://yutaka.it-n.jp/hes/90220020.html
http://yutaka.it-n.jp/hes/90220010.html
http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/med...akar_ap099.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8388/8...d3bb075b_z.jpg

There is no consensus at the moment & many authors do not accept malayana as a full species.
Eg. as stated in Yutaka H. malayana is found in HK (ie. no taminatus there) but the the Hasora there is called H. taminatus.
http://www.biosch.hku.hk/ecology/por...rt-skipper.htm

TL Seow

[Blue Nawab]

Thanks Dr Seow!

Post 58.
I think it is fair to leave it as you have labelled it.
Yutaka have shown that two taxa bhavara & malayana overlaps in a large area in Inddochina.
However, it is not as simple as that.
The difference between the two appeared to be very slight.
Taxon bhavara have a duller weaker blue-green sheen & the white band tends to have streaky outer margin.
Taxon malayana have deeper blue sheen & a thin white band.
There are individual variations & it can be difficult to be sure which is what.

http://yutaka.it-n.jp/hes/90220020.html
http://yutaka.it-n.jp/hes/90220010.html
http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/med...akar_ap099.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8388/8...d3bb075b_z.jpg

There is no consensus at the moment & many authors do not accept malayana as a full species.
Eg. as stated in Yutaka H. malayana is found in HK (ie. no taminatus there) but the the Hasora there is called H. taminatus.
http://www.biosch.hku.hk/ecology/por...rt-skipper.htm

TL Seow