Moths & Butterflies
INDO-MALAYAN Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forest
The beautiful moths and butterflies of the tropical Asian jungles...
Order Lepidoptera
(Thailand)Butterflies and moths feed on various things. Usually they take nectar from flowers, however, some species may also drink juice from fruit (as pictured above)...
(Sepilok)...or even liquid from animal faeces (as pictured above, Sepilok Borneo).
Family Sphingidae: Hawk Moths
Pergesa acteus, 'Green Pergesa Hawk Moth', (Samarn Bird Camp, Thailand)
Superfamily Noctuoidea: including 'Owlet Moths', 'Fruit Piercers'
(sub) Family Erebidae
Erebus hieroglyphica, 'Owl Moth' (Samarn Bird Camp, Thailand).
Eudocima phalonia, 'Common Fruit-piercing Moth' (Thailand).
Family Papilionidae 'Swallowtails'
(Jigme Dorji National Park, Bhutan)Papilio bianor, 'Chinese Peacock'.
(Palau-U Waterfall, Thailand)Papilio paris, 'Paris Peacock Butterfly'. Widespread acrosss tropical Asia, from India to Java.
(Jigme Dorji, Bhutan)Papilio rumanzovia, 'Scarlet Mormon', 'Red Mormon'.
Lamproptera meges, (Subic Bay, Philippines).
Family Nymphalidae
Ideopsis vulgaris, 'Blue Glassy Tiger' (Kaeng Krachan National Park, Thailand).
Vindula dejone, 'Malay Cruiser'. (Kaeng Krachan National Park, Thailand). Found throughout south-east Asia.
Moths to identify...
(Kinabalu, Borneo, Malaysia)'Dead Leaf Moth'. But what is species?
Butterflies to identify...
(Kelani Kalani Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka)
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