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Junonia iphita
spotted in my garden in Tamil Nadu, India
A butterfly of the same species with wings open, can be seen at http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/864...
Hi Pamsai! As the photo you took today is almost certainly a different butterfly (same species but different individual!) you can create a separate spotting if you wish but if you do I would add a link to this spotting in the notes (& vice versa) so that other users can see both views of the beautiful butterfly.
Lovely spotting by the way! You have a very nice collection!
Hi Martini,
Numerous trip to the garden with my camera, paid off! I got a shot of this butterfly with open wings. It seems to be the Chocolate pansy. Shall I post it to this spotting, or enter a new spotting?
Couldn't get a shot of it with the wings closed as the camera battery ran out just then! But it looked the same. Must be better prepared!
mmm, could be, but there was almost no black on the upper wing that I could see, and very light markings. It was quite light brown. One of these days I'll catch the wings open when I have my camera, then I'll post it.
thanks for hanging in there with this one...
Try the chocolate pansy for a dark brown wing. Junonia iphita http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C...
I believe that the flicker link that I gave you yesterday is J iphita and not J almana (J almana is very light underwing and this image is mis-named).
Martini, the same one was there this morning, so I uploaded a couple more photos. Saw it with the wings open while flying, and it was nearly all the same colour brown. No colour... It shut it's wings as soon as it landed.
wow, that one looks pretty good. Definitely looks the same. I'll keep checking on and off and see if I can catch one with it's wings open. Thanks for the help...
Martini, went out to check if it is still there, but no luck. Didn't see the inside wing. I got distracted by something else, and when I looked back it was gone.
So.o many butterflies in the garden at the moment, all different sorts. Sometimes I spend 15/20 mins stalking one without it settling, and the garden is big, so I do a lot of stalking! Really hard ti get good close up pictures with my little point and shoot!
This has a couple of differences from the usual but very variable D. bisaltide so I am not confident to suggest this species. The wing tip profile is more angular and the usual eyespots on the hind underwing is very reduced in your spotting.
Spotted on Jan 21, 2012
Submitted on Jan 21, 2012
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