Shyam, that’s another Spot Judy! :). We would love to have your image on the website, would you please contribute it? Write to me at <[email protected]> with exact locality name and date if you want to contribute this.
Anyway, given all these recent records, the species seems to be uncommon at best. Maybe the British had not collected it enough in the right spots, so the British Museum probably did not have enough specimens in Evans’ time. Maybe that’s why Evans thought that it was very rare. I will look through their collection for this species the next time I visit to check whether this was the case. I am very busy all of this week and perhaps next week as well, but maybe I will put together something this weekend or the next that will clearly show the distinctive features of the two species and then put it on these two species pages. That may help you people. BTW, can someone now post pictures of a real Tailed Judy? ;). Krushnamegh. ________________________________ From: SHYAM GHATE <[email protected]> Reply-To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:31:30 -0400 To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Two Judies (Abisara) from Sikkim Would u identify which one is this and why. The site is not helpful on that - yet. -ghate --- On Tue, 7/26/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Two Judies (Abisara) from Sikkim To: "Butterfly India" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 7:54 PM Dear Krushnamegh, I have an image of the Spot Judy from Namdapha taken in the month of May. Initially had id'd it as Tailed Judy but after Gaurav's post on FB checked it again. So I guess it is not as rare as considered earlier. Regards, Parag Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone from !DEA ________________________________ From: "Kunte, Krushnamegh" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:47:33 -0400 To: butterflyindia<[email protected]> ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: [ButterflyIndia] Two Judies (Abisara) from Sikkim Hi all, Here are two very similar species of Judies (Abisara): the Tailed Judy (Abisara neophron): http://ifoundbutterflies.org/187-abisara/abisara-neophron And the Spot Judy (Abisara chela): http://ifoundbutterflies.org/187-abisara/abisara-chela Evans (1932) says the Spot Judy is very rare, Gaurav and I saw three in one day. I guess we were in the right place in the right season. Animish Mandrekar has recently photographed it at Eaglenest, his picture is also posted on the above page. 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 -- Enjoy
