Have you got an updated checklist of WG butterflies? Happiness to you! unni www.imagery.in ................................................. Dr.Unni Krishnan Pulikkal ARPS Pady P.O., Kodaly, Thrissur Dt., Kerala, India PIN.680699 Cell: 9446508102 Res: +91 480 2740735 ................................................. The Butterfly Art Foundation, India www.bafindia.org .................................................
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Unni Pulikkal <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Krishnamegh for your mail. > The Singhalese HB has always been a question while browsing in the field. > Almost all the WG check-lists, including those by KK, had its mysterious > presence, but never ever a valid record photographically. > > I am only happy to contribute the images. > (I have life-stage records of Nilgiri Tiger and Palmking, already published > by BNHS. If no one else is already working on them for the site, I am only > pleased to contribute them too, as is the adult pictures of more than 240 > other WG species I have photographed. The only limiting factor is time to > process the RAW files and format them all. If you specifically need any > species, please let me know.) > > Happiness to you! > unni > www.imagery.in > ................................................. > Dr.Unni Krishnan Pulikkal ARPS > Pady P.O., Kodaly, Thrissur Dt., > Kerala, India PIN.680699 > Cell: 9446508102 > Res: +91 480 2740735 > ................................................. > The Butterfly Art Foundation, India > www.bafindia.org > ................................................. > > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Kunte, Krushnamegh < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> Unni, these are all Common Hedge Blues (*Acytolepis puspa*). Notice the >> basal spot in space 7 on HW, and orientation of discal spots on FW, among >> other key characters mentioned by Evans. Here are pictures of specimens >> similar to yours for comparison: >> >> http://ifoundbutterflies.org/3-lepidoptera/acytolepis-puspa-dp2 >> >> We can add your pictures to this page if you want to contribute them. >> These pictures will also add spot records. >> >> Sinhalese Hedge Blue (*Udara singalensis*) has been reported from the >> Western Ghats by de Niceville, Bingham and Gaonkar but Eliot and Kawazoe >> (1983) think that the de Niceville-Bingham record was “probably wrong” (they >> could not find any specimens in Natural History Museum, London). I do not >> know where the Gaonkar record comes from. Maybe he collected specimens >> himself or found some missed by Eliot and Kawazoe in NHML or elsewhere. >> Until I see proof for the Western Ghats record, I would treat this species a >> Sri Lankan endemic, as Evans and Wynter-Blyth did. >> >> Krushnamegh. >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From: *Unni Pulikkal <[email protected]> >> *Reply-To: *butterflyindia <[email protected]> >> *Date: *Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:29:08 -0400 >> *To: *butterflyindia <[email protected]> >> *Subject: *[ButterflyIndia] Singhalese Hedge Blue_Western Ghats >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Dear friends, >> I am curious to know about records of Singhalese Hedge Blue from Western >> Ghats and equally curious to see pictures. >> Here are two pics which I doubt are SHB. >> My points are: >> 1. Submarginal lunules and spots >> 2. Basal spot in space 1b on UNH >> 3. UNH discal spot in 6 is very close to bar end-cell >> 4. spots in 4 and 2 UNH are nearly equal in length >> >> I have attached a picture of Common Hedge Blue for comparison. >> Words from KK, IK, Ullasa etc will be of great help. >> >> Happiness to you! >> unni >> www.imagery.in <http://www.imagery.in> >> >> ................................................. >> Dr.Unni Krishnan Pulikkal ARPS >> Pady P.O., Kodaly, Thrissur Dt., >> Kerala, India PIN.680699 >> Cell: 9446508102 >> Res: +91 480 2740735 >> ................................................. >> The Butterfly Art Foundation, India >> www.bafindia.org <http://www.bafindia.org> >> ................................................. >> >> >> >> >> >> > > -- Enjoy
