really no way of knowing the sex from these pictures.
At 12:20 PM -0500 8/14/10, Kishen Das wrote:
So, is this a male specimen ?
Congratulations.
Kishen
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Animish
Mandrekar
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi Group,
Indeed this is good news for all of us.
My trip 2008 Trip to Arunachal Pradesh was very
eventful. We (Myself and Shasank Dalvi) were
stuck at Nameri Eco Camp for more than a week
due to heavy cloudburst in Arunachal. The road
from Bhalunkpong to Tenga was jammed due to
heavy landslides which was finally removed by
military. On our way to Eaglenest we could count
more than 50 Landslides in a stretch of 86 Kms.
The Insect and Bird activity was very low as
compare to my earlier trip to this place in
2007. We reasoned it to be the torrential rains
which had swept the entire forest floor. Heavy
rains are not new to this place but this was
real bad. In our trip we noticed forest activity
was good in low altitude as compared to the
mountains.
On our way back, one sunny afternoon of 12th Nov
2008, I saw a brown coloured butterfly mud
puddling at Lama Camp with unusual twisting at
it rear wings. I could manage to take few shot
before it disappeared.
Thank to KK for taking time out of his busy
schedule and identifying it. Below are his
comment:
the name of your species is Arhopala curiosa,
for which i have coined the english name, Curio
Oakblue. i just made its entry in my Catalog of
Indian Butterflies:
"E. Himalaya. Previously known only from a
single female (type specimen), which was
collected from Dokyong La, Bhutan, at 3,000m asl
on 1927/03/25 by F. M. Bailey (Evans 1957).
Recently, a specimen was photographed
mud-puddling at the Lama Camp (27º08.48'N &
92º27.23'E; 2,350m asl) in Eaglenest Wildlife
Sanctuary in W. ArunachalPradesh, adjacent to
Bhutan, in the second week of Nov. 2008, by
Animish Mandrekar. This seems to be the only
other record known of the species. This species
has an unusual wing shape for an Arhopala and
d'Abrera (1986) has remarked that it looks
rather similar to members of Mahathala."
Happy Butterflying,
--
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Enjoy
