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Post by xtonix on Apr 3, 2013 10:05:37 GMT -8
please id (butterflies Nias Is Sumatra) thanks Toni Attachments:
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Post by lepidofrance on Apr 4, 2013 2:20:10 GMT -8
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Post by Adam Cotton on Apr 4, 2013 7:28:15 GMT -8
Number 1 looks like a more colourful version of Ceproa nerissa, but I'm no Pierid expert, and don't know the Cepora of Nias at all.
Adam.
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Post by xtonix on Apr 4, 2013 11:14:04 GMT -8
Adam, I'm confused  That I got from Aldo Setiawan .I'm sorry There is nothing professional I do not know what to think Toni Attachments:
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Post by Adam Cotton on Apr 4, 2013 12:38:38 GMT -8
I found out there is a subspecies of C. nerissa in Nias, called niasicola. 1 is probably this, but I wouldn't like to be 100% confident, not being a Pierid collector.
Nias is part of a chain of islands lying off the west coast of the large island of Sumatra. Many of these islands have very different butterfly subspecies to those on Sumatra, and each island (or group of islands) have their own subspecies. These islands have been separated from Sumatra for a very long time, if they were ever actually connected to that island at all. Maybe someone who is more familiar with the ancient geography of the area can add some information here.
Adam.
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Post by xtonix on Apr 5, 2013 0:19:06 GMT -8
Thanks Adam
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Post by lepidofrance on Apr 5, 2013 1:09:40 GMT -8
Nias and other archipelagos, Siberut, Simelue, Batu, Sipora, Mentawai are not far from Sumatra on the geographical point of view. But, as said by Adam, these islands have been separated from Sumatra for a very long time and have a very specific fauna. Even the human realities on the ethnographic level are specific : inhabitants of these islands are very different from those of Sumatra. For example, it's in Mentawai that are found the famous "Flower men." See : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentawai_peopleen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nias |
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Post by wolf on Apr 5, 2013 3:54:02 GMT -8
i agree with the earlier ids
1. C. nerissa
2. C. judith
dont know the ssp. though.
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Post by lepidofrance on Apr 6, 2013 5:29:43 GMT -8
Here Cepora iudith iudith from Bali (male).  Attachments:
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