Lentang - KL

[Glorious Begum]

A few boring shots from Lentang. Didn't see the Leaf Butterfly & Jewel Nawab :-(

Hasora schoenherr chuza

http://www.pbase.com/lcgoh/image/130066945.jpg

Cirrochroa orissa orisa

http://www.pbase.com/lcgoh/image/130066947.jpg

Charaxes bernardus crepax

http://www.pbase.com/lcgoh/image/130066948.jpg


Cyrestis cocles earli -f. formosa

http://www.pbase.com/lcgoh/image/130066949.jpg


Corrected, it is Curetis tagalica jopa, not Curetis saronis sumatrana as posted earlier.

http://www.pbase.com/lcgoh/image/130066950.jpg

[Glorious Begum]

Euploea radamanthus radamanthus (Magpie Crow)

http://www.pbase.com/lcgoh/image/130066951.jpg

Cupha erymanthis lotis (Rustic)

http://www.pbase.com/lcgoh/image/130066953.jpg


Catopsilia pomona pomona -f. pomona

http://www.pbase.com/lcgoh/image/130066954.jpg

Notocrypta clavata clavata

http://www.pbase.com/lcgoh/image/130067012.jpg

[moloch]

Great photos, LC. They are certainly not boring to me!

[Glorious Begum]

Thanks David. I guess I need to go further to find new butterfly.


Great photos, LC. They are certainly not boring to me!

[bluefin]

LC, Beautiful series, its not easy to get a shot of Catopsilia pomona pomona -f. pomona. :cheers:

Let's go for BB & Ritra :grin2:

[Glorious Begum]

haha... Both are rare butts. Just come up to KL one weekend. I can take you there. Not hard to find Ritra and if you're lucky, it may come down for you to take a few shots. :bsmile:

Blue Begum is harder, need to walk all the way up hill, and chances of seeing them is 20%. :sweat:

Not sure when I can find this Glorious Begum

http://www.pbase.com/lcgoh/image/82617840.jpg


LC, Beautiful series, its not easy to get a shot of Catopsilia pomona pomona -f. pomona. :cheers:

Let's go for BB & Ritra :grin2:

[bluefin]

OOooo, looks like its time to cross the border again.:bsmile:

The GB is definitely Gloriously Colorful. Hopefully can meet one someday. :grin2:

[butterfly_effect]

Glorious Begum... the name is sooo fitting... what a glorious butterfly!

[Peacock Royal]

LC, these beautiful shots are certainly not boring to me.

[WillFolsom]

LC: I'd sure love to see what you consider exciting! Pretty fabulous work, if you ask me!

William

PS: What's in the air over Singapore? Two Quantas planes in two days! Khew sent me a link to your local news which I enjoyed reading.

[Glorious Begum]

OOooo, looks like its time to cross the border again.:bsmile:

The GB is definitely Gloriously Colorful. Hopefully can meet one someday. :grin2:

haha.. most of the weekend you come here. :bsmile:


Glorious Begum... the name is sooo fitting... what a glorious butterfly!

Indeed, lovely butterfly. I heard someone see it in Endau Rompin. Not sure shall we go there again. :bsmile:


LC, these beautiful shots are certainly not boring to me.

Thanks


LC: I'd sure love to see what you consider exciting! Pretty fabulous work, if you ask me!

William

PS: What's in the air over Singapore? Two Quantas planes in two days! Khew sent me a link to your local news which I enjoyed reading.


Thanks William. :cheers:

[Psyche]

I am intriqued by the Curetis and have been puzzling over it for a couple of days. Notice the forewing striae are in a straight line from space 2 to 5, with the lowermost in space 1 shifted inwards. This is consistent with C. saronis. In C. tagalica the striae in space 4 & 5 are shifted outward, while that in space 1 to 3 are more or less in line. Put in another way, in C. saronis , the striae in sp 2&3 are shifted outwards falling in line with those in sp4&5 and out of line with the stria in space 1, while in C. tagalica, the striae in space 2& 3 are shifted inwards falling in line with that in space 1, and causing the striae in space 4 & 5 to stick out like a couple of buckteeth.
Thus ignoring the leg colour I would have confidently ID this as C. saronis.
Pictures of C. saronis on the websites including many from Singapore show legs that are banded black, brown, redbrown and reddish in various combination. Based on the markings, the Singaporean examples are all correctly IDed.
Have anyone checked the valves ( claspers ) of the males with black-banded legs and those with reddish brown bands. I suppose it is not too difficult to press open the valves and take a macro shot. Perhaps a couple of worn males can be sacrficed in the interest of science to settle this puzzle once and for all. If so ,then leg colour and stria shading are irrelevant
TL Seow

[Glorious Begum]

Seow,

I thought too it was C. saronis until I noticed the black banded legs.
I will send the upperside short to you once I had it pin. ;P


I am intriqued by the Curetis and have been puzzling over it for a couple of days. Notice the forewing striae are in a straight line from space 2 to 5, with the lowermost in space 1 shifted inwards. This is consistent with C. saronis. In C. tagalica the striae in space 4 & 5 are shifted outward, while that in space 1 to 3 are more or less in line. Put in another way, in C. saronis , the striae in sp 2&3 are shifted outwards falling in line with those in sp4&5 and out of line with the stria in space 1, while in C. tagalica, the striae in space 2& 3 are shifted inwards falling in line with that in space 1, and causing the striae in space 4 & 5 to stick out like a couple of buckteeth.
Thus ignoring the leg colour I would have confidently ID this as C. saronis.
Pictures of C. saronis on the websites including many from Singapore show legs that are banded black, brown, redbrown and reddish in various combination. Based on the markings, the Singaporean examples are all correctly IDed.
Have anyone checked the valves ( claspers ) of the males with black-banded legs and those with reddish brown bands. I suppose it is not too difficult to press open the valves and take a macro shot. Perhaps a couple of worn males can be sacrficed in the interest of science to settle this puzzle once and for all. If so ,then leg colour and stria shading are irrelevant
TL Seow