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Euploea eunice

Euploea eunice

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Habitat:

Fig tree

Reference Links:

Euploea - Information on Euploea, Euploea core, 20120504 Guamの散歩道（2）：マルバネルリマダラの乱舞など : NATURE DIARY

Species ID Suggestions

Magpie Crow larva

Euploea radamanthus

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Comments (18)
EarlyStages
Orange-flash Crow (based upon further research) Euploea leucostictos https://www.facebook.com/groups/2208833392/permalink/10152863645528393/
EarlyStages
I no longer believe this to be the caterpillar of E. radamanthus; please see . . . http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/19269033
EarlyStages
Thanks very much, Ratna and Dyah! FYI on a better larval photo of E. eunice from Guam, where caterpillars of this species tend to be darker . . . http://www.flickr.com/photos/herms671/232209502/sizes/l/ . . . and evenly banded E. eunice from Taiwan that appears to be more typical of Southeast Asia: http://taibnet.sinica.edu.tw/uploads_moved/20091002_347099_Euploea%20eunice%20botelianus_l_900.jpg http://163.20.113.15/cdpsweb/CDPS/butterfly/images/fly4-2/fly4-2-5/%E5%9C%93%E7%BF%85%E7%B4%AB%E6%96%91%E8%9D%B6%E8%9F%B2.jpg http://www.tbg.org.tw/tbgweb/cgi-bin/attachment.cgi?forum=25&topic=5543&postno=3&type=.jpg&name=B6EAAFCDB5B5B4B3_1179909310
RatnaKusumaHalim
yes DyahPitaloca, you're right my caterpillar is a Euploea eunice larva, not a E tulliolus one. Thank you ^_^
DyahPitaloca
it's look similiar with this. http://tyurin.exblog.jp/15837989/
RatnaKusumaHalim
EarlyStages, thank you for your curiosity :) My knowledge about butterflies & their larvas maybe not as good as you, so maybe I give the wrong ID. I'd tried to find the similar caterpillar & butterfly from Google, but I didn't find any. your ID suggestion Magpie Crow Larva looks similar with my caterpillar, do you have any picture of its butterfly? All I know is that I picked 3 small caterpillars about 1 cm , 2 cm and 2.5 cm in length from a fig tree next to my house and kept them home. I fed them with fresh fig leaves until they one by one changed their selves into chrysalis and emerged into butterflies. I took the pictures in every stage.
EarlyStages
Ratna, I know little about adult Euploea butterflies, but have considerable experience with their early stages, so please forgive my continued skepticism. I double-checked my references, which include larval illustrations of E. tulliolus from Singapore (http://www.flickr.com/photos/17487183@N00/5626679148/), Java, Taiwan, Papua New Guinea, and Australia (http://home.comcast.net/~bflyearlystages/Early-stages-of-Euploea-tulliolus.pdf), and all show caterpillars very different from yours – most notably in possessing THREE pairs of dorsal tubercles versus four. What's more, while fig (Ficus) is eaten by many immature Euploea species, E. tulliolus isn't reported to utilize this plant, instead specializing on Malaisia. Thus, your spotting is intriguing to say the least.
RatnaKusumaHalim
EarlyStages, I'll add more photos in this spot http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/18313019 I hope the photos will clear enough for all the caterpillars emerged already, no more left with me
EarlyStages
Interesting. Can you please post individual dorsal and lateral photos of the big caterpillar shown there (http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/18313019)? Thanks much, Ratna!
RatnaKusumaHalim
EarlyStages, it wouldn't be a mixed up picture, because I kept them since they were small larvae. You can see this http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/18313019
EarlyStages
RatnaKusumaHalim, the caterpillar and butterfly appear to be different species. Might there be a mix-up?
Leuba Ridgway
Lovely spotting - both caterpillar and butterfly. Welcome to ProjectNoah RatnaKusumaHalim !

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