Hainan butterflies, dry season

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Алексей Яковлев, 21.01.2009 23:56

And in the dry season, there are quite a few butterflies in Hainan, despite the fact that most of the native vegetation is reduced to rural farming. It's just a pity that the plants don't really bloom, so the sailboats pass by without landing on anything . But there are interesting winter forms.

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A real paradise for lepidopterists (especially in spring) is the Jianfengling National Park, where 449 mace-whiskers from 609 species of Hainan are described (half of the species in all of China!). The park is huge (450 sq km), there are mountains, valleys and what you want! The forests are tropical, rainy, and cloudy. In the spring, Daphne's Teinopalpus aureus hainanensis also flies here.

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Teinopalpus aureus hainanensis (Bauer & Frankenbach, 1998)

In the park itself, you can comfortably settle on the shore of a mountain lake.

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Living with Sanya is expensive (prices are not lower than Moscow prices) and driving to the park is far and again expensive (4 hours and 700=3500 rubles yuan round trip, respectively). You can eat noodles with sturgeon there (sturgeon is grown right there on the farm). People roam the main tourist routes. It is worth a little deviation – and you are alone in the virgin forest! There is a good serpentine road running through the entire park, so you can get to the right place from the hotel by car. You need to be careful with fishing, because the Chinese are extremely hungry for money and, if they find out,they will extort by any means, or even inform on customs.

Here I posted photos taken mainly on a vacant lot near a hotel in Sanya.

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Pelopidas cf. agna (Moore, [1866])

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Arhopala pseudocentaurus nakula (C. & R. Felder, 1860)

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Ariadne ariadne atternus (Moore)

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Cirrochroa tyche lesseta (Fruhstorfer, 1912)

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Danaus genutia genutia (Cramer, [1779])

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Ixias pyrene hainana (Fruhstorfer)

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Leptosia nina (Fabricius, 1793)

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Junonia hierta (Fabricius, 1798)

This post was edited by Alexey Yakovlev - 01/23/2009 12: 19

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22.01.2009 23:23, Алексей Яковлев

Duc ely-paly! Borbo doesn't have androconia. And there are no specks in the central cell on the front wing. Your instance has all of this. And these are signs of the genus Pelopidas.

How damn nice it is to communicate with knowledgeable people!

But take a look at this simple photo: http://catalog.digitalarchives.tw/dacs5/Sy...jsp?OID=3152483

and there are spots, and androconia. What should I do?

It is also interesting that according to some sources Borbo passes as Pelopidas cinnara (see fig. http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:pY0fQ...lnk&cd=3&gl=ru) ...Probably, the birth was recently separated...

In any case, I think you're right. Hainan is probably home to Pelopidas agna. Their spots are exactly the same

And (in males, it seems) some kind of slash from the largest white spot departs, as in my photo (if you look closely). I don't know how strong a sign it is...
http://www.tesag.jcu.edu.au/staff/psv/bfly.../PagnaMMFpe.JPG
http://linus.socs.uts.edu.au/~don/larvae/hesp/agna.html

This post was edited by Alexey Yakovlev - 01/23/2009 12: 21

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