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| Chilasa epycides The Lesser mime- officially rare but makes its appearance at this waterfall the same time each year | Chilasa epycides epycides puddling | I think this could be Chilasa paradoxica form danisepa or female form aegialus (or t could be a unique form of Euripus nyctelius, female) | Chilasa clytia Common Mime |
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| Chilasa clytia Common Mime brown group | Chilasa slateri | Graphium chironides | Graphium glycerion |
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| Graphium agamemnon agamemnon Tailed jay | Fourbar swordtail Graphium agetes | Graphium nomius Spot swordtail | Fivebar swordtail Graphium antiphates |
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| Common Jay Graphium doson | Common Bluebottle- a great puddler | Graphium macareus | Graphium megarus |
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| Green Dragontail | Lamproptera curius White Dragontail | Common rose Pachliopta aristolochiae goniopeltis | Red Helen |
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| Parides polyeuctes Common Windmill | Parides zaleucus Burmese Batwing- only seen this once | Parides adamsoni | Papilio nephelus Black and White Helen |
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| Papilio paris paris Paris Peacock | Papilio demoleus malayanus Common Lime: one of the commonest butterflies throughout Thailand | Papilio polytes romulus The Common Mormon (female) | |
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| Papilio memnon agenor Great Mormon Troides | Troides aeacus aeacus Golden Birdwing in my garden | The Common Birdwing is also a great puddler | |
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| Papilio alcmenor publilius (Redbreast) | Parides dasarada Great Windmill | Byasa polyeuctes | |
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| Appias libythea Striped albatross | Appias libythea | Artogeia canidia Indian cabbage white | Catopsilia scylla Orange Emigrant |
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| Catopsilia pomona Lemon Emigrant | Common Gull | Cepora nadina Lesser Gull | |
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| Delias belladonna | Delias agoranis Burmese jezebel | Delias agostina Yellow jezebel | Delias descombesi Red spot jezebel |
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| Delias hyparete indica Painted Jezebels | Delias sanaca a pair of Hill Jezebels | Delias sanaca on Doi Inthanon | Delias sanaca coming in to land |
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| Delias pasithoe Red base jezebel | Eurema blanda Common Grass Yellow | Gandaca harina Tree Yellow | Ixias pyrene Yellow Orange tip |
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| Great orange tip | Leptosia nina (Psyche)- one of the more annoying butterflies, always on the move | Pareronia anais The Wanderer | Wanderer (female- less commonly seen than the male) |
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| Pieris brassicae Large cabbage white | Prioneris thestylis | ||
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| Danaus chrysippus Plain Tiger | Danaus genutia Common tiger | Euploea klugii Brown King Crow | |
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| Euploea mulciber Striped blue crow | Euploea core Common indian crow | Parantica sita | Parantica melaneus Chocolate tiger |
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| Parantica aglea Glassy Tiger | Tirumala septentrionis Dark blue tiger | Tirumala limniace Blue glassy tiger | |
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| Elymnias nesaea | Erites medura Eyed Cyclops | Common palmfly Elymnias hypermnestra mimics Danaus genutia | |
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| Common palmfly Elymnias hypermnestra | Banded treebrown Lethe confusa | ||
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| Lethe dura | Lethe vindaya Black Forester | The Bamboo Treebrown | Common Treebrown (found in the ladies lavatory in the Doi Suthep-Pui National Park) |
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| Bamboo forester feeding on fresh dog dirt | Red Branded Forester | Melanitis zitenius Great evening brown | Mycalesis intermedia |
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| Mycalesis malsara White-line bushbrown | Mycalesis francisca Lilacine Bushbrown | Mycalesis mnasicles | Neope armandii |
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| Neope pulahoides | Neope pulahoides taking off | Black-spotted Labyrinth A rather rare forest dweller | Orsotriaena medus (Nigger) |
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| Orinoma damaris | Penthema darlissa Blue Kaiser | Ragadia crisilda Striped ringlet | The common five-ring- a very dull and nondescript butterfly until you look closely |
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| Ypthima lisandra | Ypthima confusa Confusing Three-ring (certainly is- I make that four rings) | Melanitis leda Common evening brown | |
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| Mycalesis mineus Dark-Brand Bushbrown | Mycalesis perseus Common Bushbrown | Elymnias malelas | |
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| the White Dryad- a rare butterfly photographed on Doi Pui summit |
Discophora timora
female, the Great Duffer
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a Common Faun taking off (Faunis canens) | |
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| Stichophthalma louisa Jungle Queen | Jungle king Thauria aliris | ||
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| Enispe intermedia | Common Jungle glory Thaumantis diores | ||
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Tawny coster- one of the butterflies that doesn't like sitting still |
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| Acraea issoria Yellow coster most books consider this as rare but I see it regularly September to December | |||
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| Charaxes aristogiton aristogiton Scarce Tawny Rajah | Charaxes kahruba Variegated Rajah (left), Blue Kaiser (right) and male Cruiser (background) also on some tasty dog dirt | Charaxes solon sulphureus Black Rajah | Charaxes marmax |
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| Charaxes bernardus Tawny Rajah | Polyura arja or possibly jalysus | Polyura eudamippas Great Nawab | |
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| Polyura nepenthes- no prizes for guessing what is occupying their attention | Polyura schreiber | Polyura dolon grandis on Doi inthanon | |
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Thanks to Sutat Subinprasert, Les Day, Peter Smetacek and Jugkrit Nittaramorn