Butterfly Sightings
  >>New species sighting : Idea leuconeo clara :  Dwarf Crow : Charaxes solon echo : Zizina maha serica : Autumn Leaf :
  • 29/02/04 - Sighted Grey Pansy ovipositing on a small unidentified plant at NSP (Khew, BJ)
  • 14/02/04 - Found a Euthalia adonia pinwilli (Green Baron) caterpillar about to pupate on Tylophora sp at Alexandra Hospital Butterfly Trail (Gan)
  • 11/01/04 - Someone in Clubsnap photographed Deudorix elioti at AH ! link
  • ??/11/03 - Sighted Malay Lacewing caterpillar at MacRitchie Reservoir (Nick Baker)
  • 30/08/03 - Sighted Deudorix elioti, a new species, at Ubin ! (Simon,Gan,Khew,BJ)
                        Caught a female Tajuria dominus fluttering on Loranthus sp at West Cove condo (Gan, Simon)
  • 26/06/03 - Sighted Cethosia hypsea hypsina  (Malay Lacewing) along Market Street next to the Golden Shoe Hawker Centre (Simon)
  • 16/06/03 - Sighted Everes lacturnus rileyi (Indian Cupid) and its hostplant at Pulau Ubin (BJ, Gan)
  • 15/06/03 - Sighted Tree Yellow ovipositing on a vine at Upper Seletar Reservoir (Khew)
  • 25/05/02- Found 5 empty pupa of the Euripus nyctelius eupleoides (Courtesan) on a plant (Urticaceae) at Upper Pierce (Gan).
  • 12/04/02- Sighted and photographed  Bindahara phocides phocides (new)at Upper Seletar (Ben Jin)
  • 06/04/02- Sighted and photographed Bibasis Sena uniformis (Orange-tail Awl) (new)at Nee Soon Pipeline (Gan)
  • 01/03/02- Sighted Danaus melanippus hegesippus (Black Veined Tiger) at Alexandra Hospital Butterfly Trail (Khew, Simon, Gan)
  • 08/02/03 - Sighted Zizeeria maha serica at Alexandra Hospital Butterfly Trail (Khew, Gan)
  • 04/01/03 - Sighted a female Euploea tulliolus ledederi (Dwarf Crow) at Sime Forest (Simon, Gan)
  • 01/01/03 - Sighted a pair of Idea leuconoe clara at Sime Forest again (Khew, Simon, Gan)
  • 08/12/02 -  Sighted 2 Idea leuconoe clara at Sime Forest ( Khew & Steven).
  • 03/10/02 -  Sighted many Miletus symethus petronius at Mandai Orchid Garden. (Khew & Gan)
  • 24/09/02 -  Sighted Thaumantis noureddin  noureddin (Dark Jungle Glory) at Steven Chong's house at Pavilion Circle (near the Bt Batok Road-Chua Chu Kang LRT/Keat Hong camp).
  • 22 /09/02 - Sighted Flos diardi capeta ovipositing on unidentified host plant at Upper Pierce. (Khew, Simon, Gan)
  • 08/09/02 - Sighted Unkana ambasa batara (Hoary Palmer) and Spindasis lohita senama (Long Banded Silverline) at Kranji. (Khew, Simon, Gan)
  • 11/08/02 - Sighted and photographed Polyura schreiber tisamenus (Blue Nawab) ovipositing on Rambutan leaves and Euploea tulliolus lederi (Dwarf Crow) (new) at Pulau Ubin. (Simon & Gan)
  • 09/08/02 - Sighted Cupha erymanthis lotis (Rustic) ovipositing on Flacourtia rukam at Upper Pierce. (Khew, Simon & Gan)
  • 06/07/02 - Sighted Badamia exclamationis (Brown Awl) and Hasora vitta (>10) on  flowering tree at West Coast Park. (Khew & Gan)
  • 30/06/02 - Sighted many Surendra vivarna (Acacia Blue) on sugar cane and Pandita sinope (> 5) at Kranji Marshes. (Khew & Gan)
  • 22/06/02 - Discovered another new Singapore species - Pelopidas assamensis at Mandai area.  (Khew, Steven, Gan)
  • 26/05/02 - Sighted a Phaedyma columella singa (Short Banded Sailor) caterpillar feeding on Sea Derris at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve. (Gan & Simon)
  • 29/03/02 - Sighted Leptosia nina malayana (Psyche) ovipositing on Purple Cleome (Cleome rutidosperma) at Upper Pierce (Khew, Simon & Gan)
  • 17/03/02 - Found Iraota rochana boswelliana caterpillars on Ficus spp at Telok Blangah Hill Park (Simon and Jing Ling).
  • 16/03/02 - Sighted Chocolate albatross and Pseudocoladenia dan dhyana (new) at BTNR (Steven, Simon) and Bindahara phocides phocides at Upper Pierce (Khew & Gan).
  • 23/02/02 - Discovered a new species, Charaxes solon echo and sighted a female Polyura schreiber tisamenus at Upper Pierce. (Khew, Steven, Simon & Gan)
  • 27/01/02 - Sighted the rare Thaumantis klugius lucipor (Dark Blue Jungle Glory) at Sime Forest. (Simon & Gan)
  • 01/01/02 - Found Polyura schreiber tisamenus (Blue Nawab) caterpillars feeding on Saga (Adenanthera pavonina) leaves along Old Upper Thomson Road. (Khew & Simon)
  • 23/12/01 - Sighted the rare Discophora sondaica despoliata and Iraota rochana boswelliana  at Chestnut Drive (Gan and Khew)
  • 20/12/01 - Photographed the Idea leuconoe chersonesia at Pulau Tekong. (Khew)
  • 20/11/01 - Sighted Pieris canidia (Cabbage White) ovipositing on Purple Cleome (Cleome rutidosperma) at Kallang Riverside Park (Simon)
  • 03/11/01 - Sighted Terinos terpander (Royal Assyrian) at Upper Pierce Reservoir. (Khew & Gan)
  • 20/10/01 - The Phalantha phalantha (Leopards) are back in full force at the Willow tree at Upper Seletar Reservoir.  We sighted 8 Leopard butterflies, 8 empty pupae and 3 un-hatched pupae on the Willow tree.(Khew, Gan)
  • 22/09/01 - Sighted female Hypolimnas bolina jacintha at Upper Pierce Reservoir (Simon and Gan).
  • 19/08/01 - Sighted Thaumantis klugius (Dark Blue Jungle Glory) at Upper Pierce Reservoir (Khew).
  • 22/07/01 - Sighted many Prosotas spp  flying around Rain Trees at many locations in Singapore (Steven, Simon). 
  • 03/07/01 - Sighted many  Danaus chrysippus (Plain Tigers) flying around the Calotropis gigantea plant at the Malayan Railway guard house along Choa Chu Kang Road (Steven).
  • 10/06/01 - Sighted 2 female Zeuxidia amethystus (Saturns) and Royal Assyrian (Terinos terpander) at MacRitchie Reservoir Trail (BIG)
  • 26/5/01 - Bukit Timah Nature Reserve - Sighted the Great Mormon female form distantianus, Abisara geza niya, Grey Pansy and Common Birdwing !
  • 20/5/01 - Kallang Riverside Park walk - Sighted Cabbage Whites and  Hypolimnas bolina jacintha (laying eggs)
  • 13/5/01 - Upper Pierce Reservoir - Sighted many Crows (Magpie, King, Striped Black) on flowering Eugenia Tree, Grand Imperial, Fluffy Tit, Five Bar Swordtails and many Plain/Common Lacewings along the trail.
Idea leuconoe clara
 
  • 08-12-02 at SICC - 2 by Khew & Steven
  • 01-01-03 at SICC - 2 by Khew, Simon & Gan
  • 05-01-03 at SICC - 1 female by Khew
Euploea tulliolus ledederi (Dwarf Crow)
 
  • 11-08-02 - First sighting at Pulau Ubin by Gan & Simon.
  • 24-08-02 at Pulau Ubin - 3 by Khew, Simon & Gan
  • 04-01-03 at Sime Forest - 1 female by Simon & Gan

 
Charaxes solon echo
 
  • 01-01-2002 - First sighting at Upper Pierce by Khew, Steven, Gan, Simon & Ben Jin

 
Zizina maha serica (Pale Grass Blue)
 
  • 04-10-01 -  First sighting at Shell petrol station at Tampines Ave 2 by Steven Neo
  • 25-11-01 -  sightedmanay at Kallang Riverside Park by Gan & Simon.
  • 08-12-01 -  Life history recorded by Steven.
  • Oct 2002 -  Identified by J. N. Eliot as Zizeeria maha serica
  • 2002 - sighted at Kembangan, Bishan and Ang Mo Kio.  No sighting in the eastern and southern part of Singapore
  • 08-02-03 - Sighted at Alexandra Hospital Butterfly Trail (Gan & Khew)
  • 29-03-03 - Sighted at West Cove condo (Gan)

 
Doleschallia bisaltide australis (Autumn Leaf)
 
 This species has established itself in Singapore.  Its preferred host plant in urban areas is Pseuderanthemum reticulatum and in the wild is Asystasia intrusa (Common Asystasia).  Life history for this species has been recorded by BIG
  • 16-10-99 - First sighting at Bukit Timah Nature Reserve by Andrea & Steven