Lovely Lepidoptera
Photos of insects within the Order Lepidoptera. Lepidoptera includes species of butterflies and moths.
Flown Kimmerling created this list 7 years ago
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Bee hawkmoth -
Large Dynamine - Dynamine mylitta -
Himalayan_butterfly -
zygaena fausta -
White witch (Thysania agrippina) -
Veined Labyrinth (Neope pulaha) -
Green Dragontail - Lamproptera meges decius -
![Caterpillar of Euploea boisduvalii I posted pics of this Caterpillars I found in Fiji to another forum for ID help.
Was surprised when told that this was a 'special' observation and he requested for more pics and full resolution pics to have a better look at them and make comparisons. He later posted his analysis/comparisons and mentioned that this is most likely Euploea boisduvalii by eliminating the other known species of Danaids recorded from there.
And if he is correct, then this could possibly be the first published photos of the caterpillar of this species! :)
This person has expertise in immature Butterflies (Caterpillars) and this is his observations :
According to my possibly dated references, the danaids reported for Viti Levu are:
* Danaus plexippus – LOOKS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT
* Euploea boisduvalii – MATCHES TEXTUAL DESCRIPTION
* Euploea leucostictos – LOOKS VERY DIFFERENT
* Euploea lewinii – PATTERNING SAME, BUT NOT COLOR & TUBERCLES, ON RAROTONGA (http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org/showImage.asp... [http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org/species.asp?id=9392])
* Euploea tulliolus – 3 PAIRS OF TUBERCLES
* Tirumala hamata – 2 PAIRS OF TUBERCLES
Thus, all considered, either Euploea boisduvalii (my vote; if correct, these being the first "published" photos) or the Fijian subspecies of E. lewinii. Butterly,Caterpillar,Euploea boisduvali,Euploea boisduvalii,Fiji](https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/2994/69135_small.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=iaDFNk8H7aJ9V%2BNtzElSRiBRUvM%3D)
Caterpillar of Euploea boisduvalii -
Moth - Eupterote asclepiades -
Monkey Moth - Eupterote asclepiades -
Red Waisted Florella Moth -
White-banded Pierrot -
Three-spot grass yellow, Eurema blanda -
Green Comma - upper wings -
Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) - Recently Deceased -
Danaus chrysippus -
Cyclosia papilionaris -
Pontia daplidice -
Geometrid Moth - Scopula sp (?) -
Moth -
Moth - Hydrillodes surata -
Queen of Night | Saribia ochracea -
Eastern Brown Crow - Euploea tulliolus forsteri -
Agriopis aurantiaria - male