Image Copyright David Vinot
Last Observed: February 2015
Observed By: David Vinot
The Cotton Stainer is a small insect that comes from the family Pyrrhocoridae. They are charectirised by simple but striking shell markings in a similar fashion to the man-faced shield bug.
Image Copyright Teerasak Thomas Suamcheepmasau
Image Copyright Teerasak Thomas Suamcheepmasau
Image Copyright David Vinot
Image Copyright Tijl Adriaen
Last Observed: November 2015
Observed By: Tijl Adriaen, Dave Hinchliffe
The Oleander Hawk Moth is striking as a caterpillar and has a beautiful adult form as well.
The caterpillar has very large false eye colours to mislead predators.
The moth feeds largely on the highly toxic oleander plant, to which it is immune. When it can’t feed Oleander it thrives on plants from a family called Dogbane, you’d have to assume they were toxic too.
Image Copyright Dave Hinchliffe
Image Copyright Dave Hinchliffe
Image Copyright Dave Hinchliffe
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 Longhorn Beetle has the latin name Batocera Davidis, appropriate enough given its Koh Chang observer.
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 Copyright Julian Cowburn
Last Observed: October 2015, Koh Chang
Observed By: Julian Cowburn
The beautiful man-faced shield bug really does appear to have an image of a man’s face on its back. It is also known as a stink bug and can grow up to 3cm in length.
Catacanthus Incarnatus Encyclopedia of Life
