Wednesday, July 28, 2010

EUCARCHARUS SP "Infanta"

Marinfanta road Km120 > Infanta > Quezon Province > East Luzon
First two pictures showing location in which we found that particular "new" species (and a few others.....), second picture left side Rob Krijns hill climbing :), ahead of him (not in picture) Joachim Bresseel, Tim Bollens and myself, a trimester ago.
Beautiful, large, species we found in a few specimens only, femelle is pretty large all brown color, quite unattractive I must say, male large as well and nicely colored, red, green, dark blue and black. Typical Eucarcharus male behaviour "dancing" fast left/right motion while walking and at the first danger drops immediately on the floor and run.....!
Here in Manila, they immediately accepted Guava as a replacement foodplant.




























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