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Common Posy
Drupadia ravindra
-7.9749, 112.633
Field Notes
Description:
The Common Posy is a relatively common forest butterfly, usually found individually in localised areas. It can usually be found along jungle paths near sunlit spots. It returns to a same leaf to rest, time and again. The males have bright blue hindwings above whilst the females are greyish white on the hindwings above.
Habitat:
I found it in a forest near the beach in Indonesia
Notes:
The Common Posy may also often be seen resting with its wings closed, as in this specimen photographed, with its tails in motion. It seems probable that the tails and hindwing pattern serves as a decoy to fool predators into mistaking the tails for the antennae.
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedMay 7, 2012
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