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Forest Quaker ♀
Pithecops corvus corax
14.15, 121.23
Field Notes
Description:
A small, frisky lycaenid. A female Forest Quaker, Pithecops corvus corax Fruhstorfer 1919 (Lycaenidae; Lycaeninae; Polyommatini), ovipositing on a Desmodium sp. (Fabaceae = Leguminosae) plant. P. c. corax is the occurring ssp. across the Philippine islands. Photos 5 and 6 show the flowers, pods and leaves of the hostplant.
Habitat:
Makiling Botanic Gardens, a 300-hectare protected forest park, situated at the lower elevations of the Mount Makiling Forest Reserve's Molawin-Dampalit watershed in Los Baños, Laguna.
Notes:
Reference: A synonymic list of Lycaenidae from the Philippines by Takanami - http://www004.upp.so-net.ne.jp/jamides/LycPhil/philframe.html
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedNovember 5, 2017
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