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jusni Kodiang, Malaysia Feb 16, 2008

Hello everyone,

I am new here and love browsing through the threads of this group. I have just captured this butterfly close to the river. It is dry season now just in case it is a dry-form color. Please help me with the ID of this butterfly.

Regards,
Jusni

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fly_girl The Woodlands, TX(Zone 8b) Feb 16, 2008

Jusni, what a beaut! It's a Peacock Pansy, Junonia almana. The eyespots on the wings are supposed to be like Peacok feathers.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junonia_almana






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jusni Kodiang, Malaysia Feb 16, 2008

Thanks fly-girl, that was really fast. Appreciated!!
This is another look on the underside.

Regards.

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fly_girl The Woodlands, TX(Zone 8b) Feb 16, 2008

That's a nice pic of him too. You should enter him in the Butterfly Files, under Family Nymphalidae, the Brushfoots. I didn't see an entry at all for that species.

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Feb 16, 2008

jusni, those are great photos of a lovely butterfly.

I have created an entry for Junonia almana in BugFiles here: http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/go/5007/

We would be very pleased to have your images added to this page,

Kennedy

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jusni Kodiang, Malaysia Feb 17, 2008

Hello Kennedy,

Thanks for the link. I have added 4 images there and hope I did it the right way.

Regards,
Jusni

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