Image Copyright Tijl Adriaen
Last Observed: November 2015, Koh Chang
Observed By: Tijl Adiaen
The Handmaiden moth is a small but striking insect with two yellow bands on a black body. It is the wings, however that are the moth’s most arresting feature. On afirst glance they apear to be full of holes but this is because the clear wing sections are covered by a hyaline patch.
Last Observed: February 2015, Koh Chang
Observed By: David Vinot
The Great Eggfly as you will notice is actually a butterfly. It is a member of the Nymphalid family of butterflies and in BNew Zealand it goes under the far more alluring name of the Blue Moon Butterfly.
Image Copyright David Vinot
Last Observed: February 2015, Koh Chang
Observed By: David Vinot
The Peacock Pansy is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family.
Its most notable feature is that it exists in two different adult forms with different underside wing markings. There is a wet-season and a dry-season form so it is possible that this evolutionary variant has occured to offer better camouflage in differing climate and flora conditions.
Image David Vinot
Last Observed: February 2015, Koh Chang
Observed By: David Vinot
The Blue Pansy is known in Australia as the far more assertive sounding Blue Argus.
It is a butterfly of the Nymphalid family.
Last Observed: February 2015, Koh Chang
Observed By: David Vinot
The splendidly named Commander is a brush-footed butterfly native to Asia.
Who or what The Commander commands, or how it got its name, is unclear. It would be great to have that naming power though wouldn’t it? “I’ll call this toad The Governor, just because I can”.
Image Copyright David Vinot
Image Copyright David Vinot
Image Copyright David Vinot
Image: Perry Stevens
Image Copyright Paweena Khamsap
Last Observed: December 2015, Koh Chang
Observed By: Paweena Khamsap, Perry Stevens
The brightly coloured Yellow Leopard Moth is often mistaken for a butterfly firstly because it flies during the day and secondly due to its uncharacteristically bright colouration. But it isn’t. It’s a moth. A moth with delusions of grandeur maybe, but still a moth.
Image Copyright Perry Stevens
Last Observed: 2015, Koh Chang
Observed By: Perry Stevens
This super-hairy caterpillar eventually develops into the Tussock Moth.
Image Copyright Tijl Adriaen
Last Observed: November 2015, Koh Chang
Observed By: Tijl Adriaen, Hans-Henrik Hansen
The Tropical Swallowtail Moth is a large member of the moth family uraniidae with a wingspan of up to 16cm.
Tropical Swallowtail Moth Wikipedia
Image Copyright Hans-Henrik Hansen
Last Observed: 2008ish, Koh Chang
Observed By: Dave Hinchliffe
This stunningly-coloured moth looks like a bee or a wasp on first observation. It is also known as the Tiger Moth, but doesn’t look all that much like a tiger – must be the colour?
It is found in India, southeast Asia and parts of Australia.
Image Copyright David Newman
Last Observed: November 2015, Koh Chang
Observed By: David Newman
The Rusty Palmking is a large butterfly that is a member of the jungle-dwelling Amathusia family of butterflies and is one of over 1,100 species of butterfly found in Thailand.
