These are wet season forms. Note the differences in wing shape and darkness of the wings between pictures posted by Blaise and Dr. Soares.
________________________________ From: Blaise Pareira <[email protected]> Reply-To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 12:08:43 -0500 To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Chocolate Pansy (Junonia iphita) mating Hi All, A couple pics of Chocolate Pansy mating... Blaise ----- Original Message ----- From: Neil Soares <mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 10:30 PM Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Chocolate Pansy (Junonia iphita) mating Hi Dr. Kunte, My photograph of a mating pair of Chocolate Pansys taken at my farm at Shahapur [north of Bombay]. With regards, Neil Soares. --- On Sun, 1/9/11, Kunte, Krushnamegh <[email protected]> wrote: From: Kunte, Krushnamegh <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Chocolate Pansy (Junonia iphita) mating To: "butterflyindia" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, January 9, 2011, 9:45 PM No, Arjan, there is a lot of seasonal variation. There is also some regional variation, but it is small compared to the seasonal variation. ________________________________ From: Arjan Basu Roy <[email protected]> Reply-To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 01:13:27 -0500 To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Chocolate Pansy (Junonia iphita) mating do this coloration of male found in all part of India, in all seasons? regards Arjan On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 1:03 AM, Kunte, Krushnamegh <[email protected]> wrote: A mating pair of Chocolate Pansy (Junonia iphita) from Aralam WLS in Kerala. The male is on the left. With best wishes, Krushnamegh. ------------------------------------------------- Krushnamegh Kunte, PhD 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] <http://[email protected] <http://[email protected]/> > Other emails: [email protected] <http://[email protected] <http://[email protected]/> > , [email protected] <http://[email protected] <http://[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 ------------------------------------------------- -- Arjan Basu Roy 6/7 Bijoygarh, Kolkata - 700 032 West Bengal, India Be natures' mate! -- Enjoy
