I discovered on the Internet that it is Achelura sp. (Chalcosiinae, Zygaenidae). But have Achelura here - I didn't find it.......
The author can be contacted via the MICEX: https://www.facebook.com/ColinHuttonPhotography/?fref=ts Usually, if the model is sitting still, photographers do a bunch of shots, then choose the best.
Generally - Lake Pang Ung - mining. There is much cooler than in the plain, in the morning - fog. On the shore, even pines. Altitude and have not found, Google did not help ........
Igor that picture something so small ??? Just wanted to admire the handsome beetle, not a bit of it ....
Anomala grandis - so they can be there to collect buckets .... called banana beetle .... near banana plantations were ....
This beetle was in the same place and at the same time as # 43021 But its color is much lighter, it does not effect anything was (like flash or post-processing).
Beetle flew at night on the porch, knocked on the burning lamp, plopped down on her food. Remains of food - on his head, sorry, that's what we have turned so dirty ....
Who would argue !!! Besides - zinger - it is healthy: it was extremely difficult to take such a moving nasekominu. :)
God be with you ... a squad? .... I beetles do not know what their squad, not that grasshoppers ... I'm just a photographer, sorry ...
But this - not Arhopala centaurus there too? She is also the top of the wings was as the blue-violet splash.
Fumbling in the source code, I found another such angle: http://lepidoptera.ru/gallery/40069 On the other side - there is a photo ...
... long thought: as butterfly wings wrenched so ... and now dawned that it is, I simply photographed behind ???? and the wings as expected, are normal ???
:) Black background is often used to not bother with shadows from the flash. Usually it takes a piece of black velvet, it extinguishes all the shadows, very comfortable. " I think so, too, is not bad. " is not just "not bad" and absolutely wonderful!
Ufffff ..... And I sat there, puffing, not already know how to respond to such barbarity ..... Dear Comrades, let us in the publication of such ambiguous (at a glance) shots to give comments, huh?
... otsmatrivaya material ... At this butterfly look - on a dark background (one half of the wing, which is closer to his chest) have clusters of light scales scattered rarely rest of the surface of the wings (look like tiny light bars). So: where they are perceived as eye congestion tiny droplets of liquid mercury or shiny metal.What was my surprise that this effect in the pictures I found ....
Andrew, do you have such high-quality photos, but viewed fingers - somehow not comme il faut .... be stuck in something pin something .... I also have have a few photos with butterflies on her hand, but they're alive, is another story .............
Yes, on a dark background can be seen better. Still, it seems to me that such instances should be light backgrounds try a less contrasting shades of dark gray, for example. And very overexposed for my taste ...