Thursday, December 18, 2008

MNESILOCHUS CAPREOLUS [?]

Nice, medium size species I found on the west coast of Luzon several months ago. They belong to the Lonchodiinae family. Nice attitudes, often still in very pretty/extraordinary positions. Here in Quezon City I feed them with leaves of an African Tulip tree (imported) / Spathodea campanullata (Bignonaceae) with good results.






While the above male are all looking pretty much the same, the females they, come in several forms - have 4 pictured here > the plain brown, the plain (nearly) black, the mosaic and the striped. Beautiful .....!




















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