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Common Tit Watching the small lycaenid butterflies slowly spread their wings in the early morning is one of the joys of butterfly watching |
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The White Imperial- a rarity. There are two spots in Chiang Mai where you can find it but elsewhere in the country it is rare. |
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| One of the Arhopolas but not sure which | Green oakblue- the only picture I got before the memory card was full ! | Pointed Cilliate Blue | Common Imperial |
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| Common Pierrot- very common in grassy area near forests | Common Hedge-blue | Arhopola asopia, I think | |
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| Metallic Cerulean | Nacaduba angusta- don't know the common name | Common Cerulean | |
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| Some of the different appearances of the Purple sapphire | Prosotas species ? one of the tiny ones, anyway | ||
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Fluffy Tit |
Peacock Royal | Rapala pheretima - don't know the common name | |
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| Miletus chinensis | Miletus ancon | Allotinus drumila | |
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| Scarlet Flash | Silverline- brilliant violet, red and blue inside (only got this on video though !) |
Zebra- a deep violet on the upperwings |
not sure which Arhopola |
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| Deudorix epijarbas Cornelian | Discolampa ethion Banded Blue Pierrot |
The Dark Glass Blue, Zizeeria karsandra |
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Orchid tit (Chilaria othona) opening his wings one morning |
Common Tit again | ||
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| Common Ciliate Blue | Chilades pandava | butterfly: Prosotas aluta finger: property of Mr T Ball | haven't worked out what this is yet |
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| Green Oakblue (Arhopola eumolphus) again | Catapaecilma major albicans- a new lycaenid! | Chliaria kina (Blue tit) likes the mountains | |
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| dry season form of The Plains Cupid, Chilades pandava | Syntarucus plinius (Leptotes plinius) Zebra Blue | Loxura atymnus Common Yamfly, rather moth-eaten | Arhopola, I guess, but which |
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| Caleta caleta Angled Pierrot | Tajuria cippus Peacock Royal | Curetis bulis Sunbeam | |
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| Freyeria putli Small Grass Jewel | Forest Quaker (Pithecops corvus) | Chocolate Royal | |
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| Zebra again | Purple sapphire Heliophorus ila | ||
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| Syntarucus plinius | Bindahara phocides Plane | Drina Donina | Drupadia ravindra Common Posy |
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| Everes lacturnus Indian Cupid | Flos asoka Spangled Plushblue | Heliophorus indicus Indian Purple Sapphire | Loxura atymnus Yamfly again |
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| Niphanda tessellata | Forest Quaker again | Rapala iarbus Common Red flash | Tajuria maculata Spotted Royal |
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| Una usta Singleton | Pseudozizeeria maha Pale Grass Blue | The Dark Glass Blue, Zizeeria karsandra | Zizula hylax Tiny Grass Blue |
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| Common silverline (Spindasis vulcanus) | one of the little Prosotas, I think | Zizina otis (photograph by Pisuth Ek-Amnuay) | |
Lycaenidae: Riodininae |
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| Punchinello Zemeros flegyas | Dodona deodata (White punch) | Club Beak Libythea myrrha | Punchinella Zemeros flegyas |
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| Abisara echerius Plum Judy | here it is just taking off | Abisara fylla Dark Judy | Abisara neophron Tailed Judy |
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Lycaenidae: Poritiinae |
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| I'm guessing this could be Simiskina phalia female | The two sides of the Common Gem Poritia hewitsoni | ||