Ok, it might be Blue Peacock (Papilio arcturus arius). I am sure it was not Common Peacock (*Papilio bianor polyctor*) .
Kishen On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Krushnamegh Kunte <[email protected]>wrote: > > > kishen, as far as we know, the species doesn't occur in the western > himalaya. you may have seen the Common Peacock (*Papilio bianor polyctor*) > or the Blue Peacock (*Papilio arcturus arius*). you have to have a close > look to distinguish the peacocks. > > 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 > Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ > Google profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/krushnamegh > > > > > > -- > Gaurav Agavekar. > > > > -- > > > 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
