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Sunday, January 31, 2016
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Monday, January 25, 2016
Atlas Moth (Attacus taprobanis)
A large moth lives in Southern India and Sri Lanka. Adult moths do not take foods and survive on fat they have stored from the larval period. The females sitting most calm and emit pheromones, that the active males can notice from a distance. As per Moore at that time Attacus taprobanis was a common insect in the Colombo. Probably due to readily availability of its host plant Cinnamon in the cultivation.
Location - Ambagaspitiya, Gampaha district.
Wing expanse - 17 - 23 cm
Reference - The Lepidoptera of Ceylon - F. Moore, F.Z.S. Vol 2 Page 124-125.
External links - http://www.inaturalist.org/listed_taxa/3412320Larval host plants - "Feeds on Cinnomon and others trees (Thwaites)" - Moore, F.Z.S., 1882-3
Elaeocarpus serratus (වෙරළු/Wild Olive) - (Rohana Gunawardana Personal communication )
Sunday, January 24, 2016
Saturday, January 23, 2016
Friday, January 22, 2016
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Monday, January 18, 2016
සැළලිහිණියා [Salalihiniya]/Sri Lanka Hill Myna [Ceylon Grackle/Ceylon Hill Myna] (Gracula ptilogenys)
Rather uncommon endemic bird occurs locally in forests and near by well wooded home gardens, plantations, etc. from wet lowlands to the mid hills. It feeds on fruits, high in the canopy level of the forest, as pairs or as small groups. The breeding season lasts from February to May and probably again from August to September. The nest is a cavity in a tree hole.
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Saturday, January 16, 2016
Friday, January 15, 2016
Kris plant (Alocasia sanderiana)
Globally critically endangered plant naturally found only in two locations, namely Bukidnon and Misamis Occidental (Mindanao Island ) of the Philippine. Widely cultivated as an ornamental pot plant in gardens. Not naturalized.
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Monday, January 11, 2016
Indian Dart/Pallid Dart (Potanthus pallida)
Very rare butterfly. W. Ormiston first collected it in Sri Lanka at Haldumulla, and noted in his monograph of Sri Lankan butterflies "The Butterflies of Ceylon" as either a distinct race or a seasonal form of Common Dart (Potanthus pseudomaesa) (Ormiston W., 1924). Since then no authentic published records or collected specimens or photographs were available of it until Tharaka S Priyadarshana, Chamitha De Alwis and Ishara Harshajith Wijewardhane rediscovered it from Paraviyangala mountain of Badulla district on 14th October 2012 and again at Bambarakanda mountain road of Ratnapura district on 7th July 2014. Both locations are situated proximity of Haldummulla, the original locality where Ormiston collected it on or before year 1924. Above female Indian Dart was also photographed at Bambarakanda mountain road on 4th February 2015. No data available on its early stage of the life cycle or the larval host plant in Sri Lanka.
Note: - Two recently published butterfly guides for Sri Lanka have images of Indian Dart. "A Pocket Guide to the Butterflies of Sri Lanka, Second Edition Himesh Dilruwan Jayasinghe, Sarath Sanjeewa Rajapakshe, Chamitha De Alwis, 2015 and A Naturalist's Guide to the Butterflies & Dragonflies of Sri Lanka by Gehan De Silva Wijeyeratne,2015. However the image in the later one is not resembles the Indian dart and probably an incorrect identification of a male Tropic Dart (Potanthus Confucius satra)
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References:
Note: - Two recently published butterfly guides for Sri Lanka have images of Indian Dart. "A Pocket Guide to the Butterflies of Sri Lanka, Second Edition Himesh Dilruwan Jayasinghe, Sarath Sanjeewa Rajapakshe, Chamitha De Alwis, 2015 and A Naturalist's Guide to the Butterflies & Dragonflies of Sri Lanka by Gehan De Silva Wijeyeratne,2015. However the image in the later one is not resembles the Indian dart and probably an incorrect identification of a male Tropic Dart (Potanthus Confucius satra)
.
References:
- Ormiston, W., 1924. The Butterflies of Ceylon.
- T.M.T.S. Priyadarshana, C. de Alwis & G.V.I.H. Wijewardana, 2015, Rediscovery of two Darts (Lepidoptera) in Sri Lanka after 90 years, Taprobanica, January, 2015. Vol. 07, No. 01: pp. 43–44.
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Saturday, January 9, 2016
Friday, January 8, 2016
Thursday, January 7, 2016
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Curoba sangarida
Location - Kotte
External Links - http://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/367969-Curoba-sangarida
Reference - The Lepidoptera of Ceylon - F. Moore, F.Z.S. Vol 2 Page 49 & Plate
Expanse - 4 cm
Larval food plant - Firecracker flower (Crossandra infundibuliformis) (Sujeeva Gunasena Personal communication)
External Links - http://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/367969-Curoba-sangarida
Reference - The Lepidoptera of Ceylon - F. Moore, F.Z.S. Vol 2 Page 49 & Plate
Expanse - 4 cm
Larval food plant - Firecracker flower (Crossandra infundibuliformis) (Sujeeva Gunasena Personal communication)
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Sunday, January 3, 2016
Saturday, January 2, 2016
Friday, January 1, 2016
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