Can you share any interesting photo concerning butterflies you'd met in nature in your country or during your voyages abroad?
Can you also comment it shortly with a place and date you'd spot it? Also its name. If you are not sure you may ask other participants about the specy name, instead.
E.g.: In May 2019 I'd spend my holidays in Greece, and met there the above Epicallia villica, the cream-spot tiger, a moth of the family Erebidae.
Barbara Motyka you may find some good photos in these links
https://www.instagram.com/butterflies_images/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/insects.of.india/?hl=en
Very hard to meet, huge and wonderful female of Limenitis populi from N. Greece (mountain Rodopi, summer 2019)..!!
We do not consider the species in your photo a butterfly. Different languages draw line between two groups of Lepidoptera differently, eg. butterflies and moths, or day flier and night flier. So, you are not absolutely wrong, depending on the language you use.
Sri Lankan Forester (Lethe dynsate) 2016 - 08 - 07 at Sinharaja World Heritage Site Sri Lanka.
P.S - I have few interesting observations in Sri Lanka regarding Butterflies so I can post them here if you like. Thanks!
Dear Dr. Hideyuki Chiba , The former division into Heterocera (moths) and Rhopalocera (daytime butterflies) is a concept that collapsed due to the lack of monophiletism of one of the groups. See, e.g., Malcolm J. Scoble: The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and Diversity. Oxford University Press, 1995, s. 4–5. ISBN 0-19-854952-0. Why? The answer is: Because it is difficult to clearly identify the differences between daytime butterflies and moths. Such a division, although still used also by some specialists, is not strictly scientific - it is artificial relict and does not reflect the evolutionary history of the order of butterflies (Lepidoptera).
Above and at the previous photo: Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)
Painted Lady Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758) also known as the Thistle Butterfly I've met a lot of them in Katowice, Upper Silesia, Poland, on a beautiful summer day, 19 July, 2019. In Polish: 'Rusałka osetnik' what means 'thistle undine'.
Protesilaus sp. from Joaçaba, Santa Catarina, Brasil. Este livro contém fotos de mais de 400 espécies de borboletas desta cidade. Book Borboletas do Meio-Oeste de Santa Catarina: História Natural...
Greetings,
I know the Lepidoptera phylogeny, of course. My point is that it is unusual to put a photo of Erebidae ("moth") under "Butterfly biodiversity." So, I though that you are using language in which those day flying moths are categorized with butterflies.
Dear authors
Thank you for sharing this good question.
Excellent work .
Good luck.
Dear Janet Lane
, you are right: As it is difficult to clearly identify the differences between daytime butterflies and moths, we can present here both.Moreover, the former division into Heterocera (moths) and Rhopalocera (daytime butterflies) is a concept that collapsed recently due to the lack of monophiletism of one of the groups. See, e.g., Malcolm J. Scoble: The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and Diversity. Oxford University Press, 1995, s. 4–5. ISBN 0-19-854952-0. Such a division, although still used also by many specialists, is not strictly scientific as it does not reflect the evolutionary history of the order of butterflies (Lepidoptera).
Dear Janet Lane
. I am preferring your own photos of course, as there will be no troubles with properties rights, then. Otherwise, there is danger still that whole the discussion may be deleted by RG masters, AIs and gods ;-)
Dear Ozodbek Abduraimov
, I beg your pardon but we are talking here not about tulips but about... burtterflies diversity :-)I am absolutely positive that you've made many photos of interesting butterflies species during your wonderful research expeditions. Please share the results with us, here, instead of plants.
Dear Benito Schöpke
I'd met this one in Bieszczady Mountains, South Poland more than 25 years ago.
Dear Janet Lane
, This beautiful moth Tholera decimalis (Noctuidae) with tree pattern on her wings I'd spotted at the end of August, 2019, in Beskidy Slaskie region, near Zywiec, South Poland. It was approx. 2 cm big.
Aglais io - one of most popular butterflies in Poland. Here on location in Kalnica, Bieszczady Mountains, 1988. Formerly classified as the only member of the genus Inachis. So the name Inachis io is also synonymous, I also prefere, as in Greek mythology Io was the daughter of Inachus.
Argynnis paphia I'd spot near Zloty Potok, POLAND, on a beautiful sunny day of 10th August, 2019.
The below link will take to the best butterfly world
https://www.instagram.com/butterflyrealm/?hl=en
Dear Janet Lane
, As I've written, these great ammount of Argynnis paphia I'd spot in a beautiful hidden valley near Zloty Potok, POLAND, on a beautiful sunny day of 10th August, 2019. And the above presented invalid was particularly patient.Złoty Potok, Silesian Voivodeship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C5%82oty_Potok,_Silesian_Voivodeship
Dear Janet Lane
, this is very restricted thread, and people have placed here not more than few dozens of pictures up to now. Moreover, it presents usually a single dozen of them at once. However, we may await even few thousand in the far future. Despite of that: On contrary! Due to the character of this thread (we do not restrict to diagrams here, and the visual image quality is of cardinal importance for us to make them worth of interest). That is why, I insist on presenting here your own works of dimensions not lesser than 100 KB (jpg or png; please avoid bmp and tiff), and not place here works from internet, especially of much poorer quality, please. (A link to them will be quite enough.) Of course, in your own interest please do not place here your raw images of dimensions greater than 1 MB (printable quality), also due to interests of our kind RG hosts (who need reserve gigabites for each such a thread, otherwise). Please note that I am not the owner of RG, but only a user as most the others. Therefore, the above is only a small request of very restricted significance, and everyone will do as they see fit.
Hi Barbara Motyka, have a look at this blog! http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Forenbenutzung_En
Gabriella
Probably Melitaea didyma (Esper, 1778), in Zvečan, Kosovo and Metohija, Republic of Serbia
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