“I have never taken this personally, though, when fishing at Ambawella(6000ft) a small Amblypodia, settled close to me, which was either this or a new species. It is not very rare in the Hills above Ratnapura, and has been taken in Colombo Ceylon
“It has not been captured for many years now, but Ormiston(1924) records…….” – Woodhouse L.G.O. The Butterfly fauna of Ceylon
“This is a very rare butterfly, the only specimens I have seen being in the British Museum Ceylon
Its only known larval food plant in Sri Lanka is Vateria copallifera
*Above picture was taken at one of the remaining wet lowland forest patch of Gampaha district. It is highlighting the necessity of immediate actions to conserve these places with high biodiversity.
Hi,
ReplyDeletewe have rared it on Vateria copallifera in 2007. see this link http://www.slbutterflies.lk/Butterfly.php?cid=114
unfortunately we didn't have a good camera, those days.
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himesh
Congrats!
ReplyDeleteI photographed it in April, 2010 in Sinharaja.
Himesh - Thanks for the link and valuable information on its food plant(I couldn't find any information on its food plant from any of available literature on Sri lankan butterfly fauna.).
ReplyDeleteAmila - Yes I came across that picture in your blog while googling for this butterfly:) btw Have you got any observation of this butterfly in Horton plains?
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ReplyDeleteI have only found it once and that was when I photographed it.
ReplyDeleteThanks Amila.
ReplyDeleteI asked that because I read somewhere in jetwing eco web site probably written by its former CEO Mr Gehan de Silva wijerathna, that this butterfly can be seen in Horton plains with varies others. However I couldn't find name of Aberrant bushblue in any published literature on HPNP. Meanwhile IUCN research team has recently found it in a private owned estate of Kelani valley area(http://www.kvpl.com/download/Halgolla%20Estate%20Report.pdf?inline)