Colotis sp. Butterflies

Thanks for your opinion Telse :) I will keep the spotting as it is, and I have created specific spottings for most of the individual butterflies in this series!
Tina

My humble opinion...I have to say, I agree with Malcom's advice. These photos are special and show how the different species interact with each other. Looking forward to your other postings too, if you have more photos.
( Sending again...sorry, I dislike my typos)

So, today I went back to the place for the spotting. I am convinced that the yellow tip on the second photo is a third species since they were more of them, and they were all a bit smaller than the yellow tipped in the first picture. You were right from the start there Injica and Malcolm :)
Very nice and interesting Links Jopy, Injica and Malcolm! Thank you all for for all the commitment and nice comments! I will now make separate uploads for all three species ...

Tiz, I would leave this spotting as it is, as it has great educational value. You can now make separate spottings for each of the 3 species using your other pictures and/or crops from these pictures.

Wow! What a kewl photo. Just Gorgeous!

The yellow in #1 is Colotis evenina, Common Orange Tip, female.
Take #12 and #20/21 from the link:
http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Tax...
Consider as well, that you often have sexual dismorphism and differing wet/dry season forms in Pieridae.
http://foter.com/Colotis-evenina/

I apologize, but injica is right, there is a third species, the yellow one in #1 might be another species than the yellow one in #2. I suggest that you make separate spottings. For example, 1 for the Colotis evagore antigone only, 1 for the nice Colotis danae in #2 and 1 for the Colotis sp. (yellow, left) in #1. I have put my focus only on #2 and it was already late...
I will take a look at #3 later.

Bayucca solved the mystery again, OK, so there are just 2 species bayucca? despite the orange/yellow-(no darker line between that and the white part) and dark spots on the other wings under (photo2) and yellow/orange with dark borderline and than white on the photo1 ? and the size of the both on the photo 1 is similar while the other 2 on the photo 2 differ in sizes?

Lovely spotting !

If you have a lot of pictures of several specimens of several species it is not a problem to have more than one spotting either, so you could have one for each species and one showing them together also. That way you can show close-ups of each species as well as showing how they interact. I even split males, females and juveniles into separate spottings if I have enough pictures.
What we don't want is one spotting with each picture showing a different species on its own.

I did not know that is was allowed to have many species in the same photo :) Your suggestion makes things a bit easier, Thank you Karen!

Great spot Tiz! As you have 2 arthropods here, why don't you add both species common & scientific names to the relevant boxes now that bayucca has identified them both for you.

Red one is the Scarlet Tip, Colotis danae, the orange one is Colotis evagore antigone, Small Orange Tip.

I think you got the doubledayi mixed up with something else unless this is wrong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colotis_dou...
The orange-tipped specimen in the first pic is not the same as the one in the second pic, there is no black between the orange and white, but more black on the trailing edge of the hind wings on the second one. It is possible you have 3 different species here!

omg...on the sec photo the yellow looks like Colotis doubledayi

agree with Faredin (maybe for the 1st time :D ha) check this http://rcdening.co.uk/rcdening_collectn/... red one is definitely Colotis danae but the yellow one is pretty tricky...omg...no black marks on the white wings..same genus but probably not the same species...

That's definitely not an orange tip butterfly. But those two butterflies look perfect in the same photo :)

Hmm, Malcolm. It was quite a lot of them, and I did not see any with "pale red to pinkish tips". Regarding "Yours has more orange on the left" That one were more dark pink coloured, but no photos came out that way. The other one "greenish orange on the right" is very similar in the photo as in RL. I will try to upload an other butterfly with a very bring yellow colour. The orange tipped one (greenish orange) sits in the background. On that spotting it is possible to compare the shades.

Thanks for the support guys! I will look into this tomorrow, since the internet at the lodge I stay at is very slow. I look forward to look at those links :)

As Jopy says the red tipped one is a male Scarlet Tip (Colotis danae, subspecies annae). The female has pale red to pinkish tips. Yours has more orange on the left but greenish orange on the right, an effect of the light perhaps, do your other pictures suggest it might be pinkish, which would make sense if it is a pair. Orange Tip does not have a black line between white and orange so can probably be ruled out.

I think these are different species, I found this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/neb31/33569...
take a look and decide :D

The African ones are different, I'm still looking, will let you know later. Check the Botswana stamps here http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=anthoch...

Hi, is this your butterfly with red pattern: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C...
I searched just a little, but will find are this one the same species...

So I have travelled to the other side of the world, just to find something I could find back home :P That is just my luck, haha! Thank you Malcolm... Perhaps I dare to do two different uploads then, even if the spotting was in Africa.

My Europe book has "Orange Tip" white with orange tips and "Southern Orange Tip" yellow with reddish tips, but neither are mentioned as found outside Europe, but Genus is Anthocharis for the European ones.