Dear Kalesh, Can you please re-post your Cat photos ?
Kishen On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:15 AM, kalesh s <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > i had reared the species on Mappia. > cheers! > > Dr.Kalesh.S > Thiruvananthapuram > Phone: Mob:9447044498; Res: 0471-2444982 > EMAIL: [email protected] > My Blog: http://theskippersofkerala.blogspot.com/ > > --- On *Fri, 11/12/10, hemant ogale <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: hemant ogale <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Lifecycle of Chestnut-streaked Sailer - > Neptis jumbah > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, November 12, 2010, 10:06 AM > > > > Dear Krishnamegh,Dr. Kalesh, Dr Saji, Keith > > I have some images of Chestnut Streaked Sailer's Caterpillar. I have seen > C.S.Sailer laying eggs on Nothopodytes foetida/ Mappia Foetida in Amboli. > > Egg layed on 08.11.09 > butterfly emerged on 02.01.10 > > Regards. > > Hemant Ogale > > --- On *Fri, 12/11/10, Krushnamegh Kunte <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Krushnamegh Kunte <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Lifecycle of Chestnut-streaked Sailer - > Neptis jumbah > To: "Keith Wolfe" <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > Date: Friday, 12 November, 2010, 5:49 AM > > > > 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 classical* Neptis > 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
