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Hypolimnas misippus
A dark butterfly with six prominent spots on its wings. Thanks for all your help in identifying this butterfly. Sorry if I seemed determined, bloody minded even. But I think we all should be convinced beyond doubt of an ID. Too many mistakes are made which lead to more mistakes.
Grass land, close to urban area. Altitude 900m.
This male is quite an aggressive, territorial butterfly. Fun to watch as it even attacks dragonflies that stray too close. Difficult to approach for photography, requiring utmost stealth. Despite a convincing document of Cramer & Stoll: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... which pointed to bolina. I cannot argue against the final image of this link: http://rejang-lebong.blogspot.in/2009/03... showing a male that matches, mating with a crissipus mimic. This is conclusive in my mind. I have added a third image which shows the male underside.
Yes, this one: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/170... I have a couple of variations of it.
Dave
Now what to do about all my female images, as they all match bolinas!
Dave
Same thing happen to me 20 years ago...when just started about knowing about butterflies...
The male upperside of Danaid and Great Eggflies are always confusing if there's no accompanying underside picture. Here are some similar-looking pictures taken from Indonesia.
H. misippus - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/se....
H. bolina - http://haliaster.web.id/slw/en/kupu/nymp...,
http://www.neutron.phys.ethz.ch/Lepidopt..., see http://www.neutron.phys.ethz.ch/Lepidopt....
Great Eggfly Male... On which small white spots seen which are missing hre.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypolimnas_...
http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/showima...
Ashish - thanks for taking the trouble, but I am not convinced.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
Dave
Spotted on Dec 9, 2011
Submitted on Jan 8, 2013
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