Great. Can't wait more!! 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 Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Kunte, Krushnamegh <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Yes, I do, and it will be part of my upcoming A Systematic and > Biogeographic Catalogue of Indian Butterflies. This should be ready soon. > > > > ------------------------------ > *From: *Unni Pulikkal <[email protected]> > *Reply-To: *butterflyindia <[email protected]> > *Date: *Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:15:59 -0400 > > *To: *butterflyindia <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [ButterflyIndia] Singhalese Hedge Blue_Western Ghats > > > > > > > > Have you got an updated checklist of WG butterflies? > 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> > ................................................. > > > 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 <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> > ................................................. > > > > 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] <http://[email protected]> > > *Reply-To: *butterflyindia <[email protected] < > http://[email protected]> > > > *Date: *Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:29:08 -0400 > *To: *butterflyindia <[email protected] < > http://[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> <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> <http://www.bafindia.org> > ................................................. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Enjoy
