So, is this a male specimen ? Congratulations.
Kishen On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Animish Mandrekar <[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, > -- > Animish Mandrekar > Address: 304, Dattatray Bhavan, > Eksar Road, Borivli (West), > Mumbai-400 103 > Tel.: (022) 28914101 > Email: [email protected] > > > -- Enjoy
