The Copper Flash, Rapala pheretima sequeira (Distant)

The recent flowering en masse of the Siam Weed along many road sides brought out this lycaenid into the open. Surprisingly, they become common at the same time (a few species of Rapala), profiting of the flowering plants to feed on...

Habitat indicator

RSP	WV	PG	VF	FTR	SC	LWDF	LWPF	LMEF	UMN	MN
	x	x	x	x	x	x		x

Frequency observation chart: (S marks the usual occurences, H marks an unusually high occurence, F for first record)

2013		2014
Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct
		S3F	S3	S3

2014

2015

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mac

Apr

May

June

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

SH

S3S6S7

S6

S4

S3S4S6

2016
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
S3S6

2017
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

2018
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
										S	S

2019
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
S											S3

2020
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Above 2 photos 11 Jan 2014 @ 15:25

17 Jan 2014 @ 14:28

Above photo 19 Jan 2014 @ 10:45

28 Dec 2014 @ 11:51

A male: 31 Dec 2014 @ 8:32. They are among the firsts of sun-loving butterflies to descend on flowering shrubs in the morning. Rapalas can be readily observed in tandem with flowering bushes especially Chromolaena odorata otherwise they keep to their lofty perches high on flowering trees.

 9:11

9:14

A male sunning itself on a leaf: 31 Dec 2014. They have a coppery brown upper (compare to a female which has bluish upper below).

 13:58

13:59

Above pictures 26 Jan 2019

Above 2 pictures of a female sunning itself: 01 Jan 2014 @ 9:43

 14:07

14:11
Above photos 05 Dec 2019

Above a male nectaring on Arytera littoralis, 06 April 2022 @10:08