Painted Jezebel
27-Feb-2011, 11:02 AM
Todays trip was very frustrating. I saw quite a few butts that I could not identify, but they were very uncooperative, staying up in the trees. The terrain also did not help, being so hilly that it was well nigh impossible to get close to and side on.
1) The sun played a trick on me with this. The burnished coppery colour fooled me into thinking it was something new. However, it turned out to be Psolos fuligo fuligo.
2) This is an Arhopala of the Alitaeus group. However, the hindwing markings do not appear consistent with anything I have come across before, particularly the position of the postdiscal spot in 6 in relation to the end cell bar and the postdiscal spot in 5). Any ideas somebody!
3) A sixline blue, but I appear to have a mental block on these. Is it Nacaduba kurava? (Very heavily cropped and badly positioned to the sun!)
4) This one I am sure about, Tirumala septentrionis septentrionis.
1) The sun played a trick on me with this. The burnished coppery colour fooled me into thinking it was something new. However, it turned out to be Psolos fuligo fuligo.
2) This is an Arhopala of the Alitaeus group. However, the hindwing markings do not appear consistent with anything I have come across before, particularly the position of the postdiscal spot in 6 in relation to the end cell bar and the postdiscal spot in 5). Any ideas somebody!
3) A sixline blue, but I appear to have a mental block on these. Is it Nacaduba kurava? (Very heavily cropped and badly positioned to the sun!)
4) This one I am sure about, Tirumala septentrionis septentrionis.