Yashodan, the blue is female Forget-me-not (Catochrysops strabo). The yellow skipper laying an egg is Wax Dart (Cupitha purreea). It’s not a common species in the Western Ghats, and your photographic capture is fantastic! I hope that you will successfully raise it from the egg. The other skipper is Indian Dartlet (Oriens goloides).
We would very much like to have your photographs on the website. Please check out guidelines for contributing photographs at: http://ifoundbutterflies.net/general-information/contributing-media-files-photos-and-videos-to-butterflies-of-india 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] 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 ________________________________ From: Yashodan Heblekar <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 02:23:02 -0500 To: Krushnamegh Kunte <[email protected]>, butterflyindia <[email protected]> Subject: Please ID Will thank you for identifying these. Warm regards Yashodan Heblekar www.bcogoa.org <http://www.bcogoa.org/> P.S. Great work on the IFB website . Would like to contribute photos too -- Enjoy
