dear isaac and others, what's in a name? everything! it helps to use specific, correct english names and scientific names, when the latter are known to those who are helping out others with identifications. "Tufted Royal" does not refer to a species, Evans gave that name to genus Pratapa because male Pratapa have very prominent tufts of special scales on the upper side of the wings. amol's butterfly would be accurately called White Tufted Royal (Pratapa deva). i had communicated that to amol before.
by the way, isaac, note that the picture of the White Tufted Royal in your book seems to be a misidentification. in that species the discal bar in space 7 on underside hind-wing is shifted out, as you correctly mentioned in the text. the illustrated specimen does not have the bar in 7 shifted out. i am unable to say what that specimen is because the other main key characters for that species-group are not visible in the picture. on a general note, i have started seeing a lot of misidentifications on the group once again. it was not so bad some time back. i had written a mail about it last year or year before that. it would be extremely good if people are more careful with their identifications, and cautious when helping out beginners with their unidentified pictures. please confirm your identifications from reliable books before writing on the group. that will keep the group just as lively, but more helpful and reliable. At 9:11 PM +0530 8/23/08, Isaac Kehimkar wrote: >Dear Amol, >Lovely shot! And your ID is correct. >Cheers! >Isaac > >--- On Wed, 20/8/08, amol patwardhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From: amol patwardhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [ButterflyIndia] tufted royal ? >To: "butterflyindia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wednesday, 20 August, 2008, 11:47 PM > > >clicked at nagla, sgnp, thane on 25 feb 2007. it was just emerged >from chrysalis. when we saw it was hanging on its empty pupal coat. >the chrysalis was on the bark of Terminalia tomentosa at 2 feet from >ground. >pls confirm the id. >Regards, >Amol Patwardhan > > > >Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. ><http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_mail_2/*http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/>Get > >it now > > -- Krushnamegh Kunte ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Doctoral Student (Gilbert and Juenger Labs) Postal Address: 2401 W. 24th St (and Speedway) Patterson Laboratories, Room 442 Section of Integrative Biology University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-1095, USA Office: (512) 471-8240 Cell: (512) 577-1370 Fax: (512) 471-3878 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Academic Website: http://www.bio.utexas.edu/grad/krushnamegh/Moorings/AcademicsHome.htm General Website: http://www.bio.utexas.edu/grad/krushnamegh/Moorings/index.htm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Enjoy -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
