Dear Krushnamegh I have no doubt about the cat pic posted. I had two similar cats at that time but one was very small. It is yet to pupate. It is slightly different in colour and has only two green spots at the tail end.
Lifecycle series of Short banded sailer at the Singapore butterfly site ( My photos cannot be compared to it - there photos are of very high quality ! ) presents a similar cat but with only two green spots at the tail end. That was the reason for the confusion in ID with the emerged butterfly for me. Regards Saji ________________________________ From: Krushnamegh Kunte <[email protected]> To: Keith Wolfe <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Fri, 12 November, 2010 5:49:11 AM Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Lifecycle of Chestnut-streaked Sailer - Neptis jumbah i am the one who identified the adults in both cases so i should take responsibility for these identifications. i have looked at the pictures sent by kalesh and saji once again and both the adults have a classicalNeptis jumbah phenotype (kalesh and saji may perhaps want to post pictures of the adults for comparison). but i do see that the two larval phenotypes are strikingly different. kalesh and saji, are you sure that your cats did not get mixed up at some point? i know you rear a lot of cats at one time. if there was no confusion about the cats, the whole thing is very intriguing and we should follow this up. we may find something interesting here. At 11:31 PM +0000 11/11/10, Keith Wolfe wrote: Please forgive me for asking, Saji, but are you sure that the caterpillar in your photos produced a Chestnut-streaked Sailer adult? In a May 7, 2008, post, Kalesh showed us the larva of Neptis jumbah, however, your cat differs significantly in coloration, armature, and head shape -- too much so to be attributable to normal larval variation. Conversely, Kalesh, are you (and Krushnamegh) confident or your earlier ID? Thanks very much for clarifying. > >Best wishes, > >Keith > >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:54:52 -0000 (UTC) >Subject: [ButterflyIndia] Lifecycle of Chestnut-streaked Sailer - Neptis jumbah > >Dear Friends > >My latest life cycle upload > >Lifecycle of Chestnut-streaked Sailer - Neptis jumbah > >Saji -- 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 Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ Google profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/krushnamegh -- Enjoy
