Dear Vivek, You have an interesting catch. By all means the butterfly fits into the ID of Common Banded Peacock (P. crino) because of its narrow discal band on UPF, but its known range is upto West Bengal and Bangladesh from its south Indian range. There are more chances of the Burmese Banded Peacock (Papilio palinurus) occurring there, but does not exactly fit into its ID because of its discal band on UPF not broad enough. To me it appears to be a range extension of Common Banded Peacock, if so check out with more references and submit a note to BNHS for its publication in the Journal. Such small, but important observations add up in the information pool. Please note that you need not be a biologist to publish your observations in the BNHS Journal. BW do you have some more images of its upperside. Cheers! Isaac
--- On Tue, 21/4/09, apollo hell frost <[email protected]> wrote: From: apollo hell frost <[email protected]> Subject: [ButterflyIndia] Peacock from MM Hills To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, 21 April, 2009, 11:55 AM This peacock was photographed in MM Hills on April 18th. I got this near a farmhouse!!! When I took out my camera, the kids around me were so happy as they think that I m going to shoot them. Well….. I took few shots of them and then gave maximum attention to observe butterflies. There were several individuals of peacock butterflies taking nectar from lantana bushes. Other visitors were lime butterfly, sword tails, Common Mormon and roses. But the peacocks were so fearless and I enjoyed the photo shoot. I observed them half an hour and after that we moved on. Regards, Vivek. Cricket on your mind? Visit the ultimate cricket website. Enter now! Bollywood news, movie reviews, film trailers and more! Go to http://in.movies.yahoo.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Enjoy -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
