Are they different?

[bluefin]

Finally manage to nail a close shot of the swift elusive yellow. :grin2:
While going through the shots, notice that pic 2 (heavily cropped) is different from pic 1. Are they both yellow flash with difference in markings between male and female?



Rapala domitia domitia (Yellow Flash)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4631658429_b7ba87aaae_o.jpg


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3332/4632258190_52dfd3ba4e_o.jpg

[Commander]

:) That's cos the 2nd shot is not a Yellow Flash but a Suffused Flash. Markings are definitely different. The genus Rapala has quite a few lookalikes, though. So searching thru' the internet for the other species in the group would be advisable. Check out the plates here. (http://www.butterflycircle.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5949)

[bluefin]

Thanks Khew, for the reference. At first I was suspecting it to be Suffuse Flash, but the yellow color
seems so distinctive to the YF as compared to those SF on the checklist.
Thanks for the clarification. :grin2: :cheers:

[Silverstreak]

Nelson,

There is doubt as to whether the "Suffused Flash" you shot there are Suffused Flash or something else....

We will need more pictures and evidence to substantiate the suspicion.


:cheers:

[bluefin]

We will need more pictures and evidence to substantiate the suspicion.


:cheers:

Unfortunately thats the only shot I manage to get before it zipped off into oblivion. :-(