that's fabulous! it's a very fresh, beautiful male. the species is very rare in the western ghats and there are only a handful sightings in the past three decades in this area. but the species is not so uncommon in the himalayas and NE india. you are very lucky to see it in coorg. kalesh must be fuming; he loves this species but hasn't seen it yet :).
At 12:42 AM +0530 4/11/09, Rohini Deshpande wrote: >Taken at Coorg (on the way to Tandiyandamol >peak). I saw this butterfly around 5.30pm near a >tiny stream. It was feeding on bird droppings. >Is this the male or female? Also is it common in the south(western ghats)? > >Regards, >Rohini > > > > >Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="IndianAwlking.jpg" >Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="IndianAwlking.jpg" >X-Attachment-Id: f_ftd920d0 > >Attachment converted: Mammoth:IndianAwlking.jpg (JPEG/«IC») (0016DFBB) -- Krushnamegh Kunte Post-doctoral Research Fellow FAS Center for Systems Biology Harvard University 52 Oxford St Northwest Lab Room 458.40-3 Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Ph: (617) 496-0078 Cell: (512) 577-1370 Fax: (617) 495-2196 Email: [email protected] and [email protected] Academic Website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kunte/AcademicsHome.htm General Website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kunte/index.htm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Enjoy -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
