ah! what a butterfly. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Kishen Das <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > Thats neat !!! > Thanks for sharing. > > I remember seeing this fellow near Kargil, but could not take its picture > :-(. Some day ... > > Kishen > > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Krushnamegh Kunte < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> One of the advantages of working in a research museum is that I get to see >> butterfly specimens up close like I will probably never see in the field. >> Here is one such species, the Krishna Peacock (*Papilio krishna*). It >> ranges from E. Himalaya, NE India, N. Myanmar, SW China to N. Thailand, but >> the subspecies shown here (*krishna*) is endemic to E. Himalaya, NE India >> and NW Myanmar. >> >> This image was created from a specimen in Harvard's Museum of Comparative >> Zoology. I hope that someone on this group will some day post an image as >> beautiful as this one, taken in nature. >> >> -- >> >> >> Krushnamegh Kunte, PhD >> >> Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Kronforst Lab) >> 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] >> Other emails: [email protected], [email protected] >> >> Personal website: >> http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kunte/index.htm<http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ekunte/index.htm> >> Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ >> Google profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/krushnamegh >> >> > > -- Gaurav Agavekar. -- Enjoy
