A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Project Noah Nature School
Papilio alcmenor
Feeding on wet ground, by the bank of a river. Warm and humid place with lots of vegetations.
This butterfly has its left wing torn quite badly making my photos uncomfortable. As a result I had to do lots of crawling, kneeling, even turning supine to get a few presentable shots. This photo has its left and right wings just overlapped!
Spotted on Mar 31, 2018
Submitted on Apr 11, 2018
7 Comments
Thanks Daniele. This set of work was during one of those weekend trips to 'remote places' in the world.
You're welcome again :-) Thanks for all your latest contributions! There's another butterfly I need to check, and I guess the moths will keep us busy for a while :-)
Thanks Daniele for the details.
Your welcome! By using Papilio it's not really me you're going with but the taxonomic authorities I referred to on your Red Helen spotting :-)
Princeps is currently not in use. It is what is called reserved, which means it could be used again should the genus Papilio become under revision (taxonomists love revisions).
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/bu...
Thanks Daniele for the correction, and ref. I missed out the 'c'. As regards 'Princeps' I refd. The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya . . . . . (1992) by Meena Haribal, where all the Genus under 'Black-bodied Swallowtails' are classified as 'Princeps' instead of Papilio! Of course, I'll definitely go with you.
A very beautiful butterfly....very beautiful colors....
Beautiful species Dr.! The correct scientific name is Papilio alcmenor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilio_al...
http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp/729/...