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Jamides bochus herodicus
Urban garden.
Some butterflies have a colorful dot at the bottom of their wings to look like their head so the predators will attack the dot instead of their head. You will see many butterflies with the bottom of the wings missing or chewed because of this.
Spotted on Apr 18, 2013
Submitted on Apr 18, 2013
20 Comments
Litlle butterfly, I often see it at the garden too
Thanks Gerardo!
Great series !
Thank you william.xuebin and KrantiAzad!
nice series !
So beautiful ,great nature
Jamides bochus herodicus it is! Thanks Agnes and Nuwan for the ID! :-)
We have that Nuwan, Jamides bochus herodicus for Luzon area.
do you have Jamides bochus in Philippines??
Jamides caeruleus looks like your spotting - http://www.butterflycircle.com/checklist.... But this species is not in our Philippine list :(.. so you could be looking for another Jamides sp...
Very nice.
Oh @Mona the Plains Cupid has five black spots on the underside of its hind wings near the thorax...
Thanks Agnes! :-)
Thank you Mona! I'll check on that too :-)
Maybe : Plains Cupid, Chilades pandava
Amongst the 3 spp of Anthenes in the Philippines, Anthene emolus looks the closest, but it does not have tails :(
Nacaduba hermus looks close also, but there's still difference in the forewing underside. :(
I'll look into the anthenes @gerdanooi and see if I can get a match. Thanks!
Yes Argy Bee the upper side is rich teal blue but it has similar underside pattern as the Sky Blue (Jamides caeruleus)... Thank you for your appreciation and comment.
maybe one of the anthenes?
Tough one.. the wings upper side look really rich dark blue.. very nice.