The White Cerulean, Jamides pura pura (Moore)

Habitat indicator

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

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

2013		2014
Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct
				S1

2014

2015

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mac

Apr

May

June

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

S3

S4

S3

2016
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
					S2

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

Invaluable thanks to Dr Seow for helping out with the ID of these photos:

Above 3 photos from 23 March 2014 @ 14:27. This is a member of the celeno sub-group of Jamides. It frequents moist spots in shady forest floors, usually by streams. It is quite a confusing group of butterflies to distinguish from one another but thanks to expert advices, some can be cleared (with the right luck to get the right photos too). This one came puddling where I was photographing a small group of Udara and Celastrina.

Jamides pura can be differentiated from the closely resembling Jamides zebra in that the first has a rather silverish blue tone on the upperside and the latter a much deeper cerulean blue.

A male from mid-elevation: 17 Jan 2015 @ 13:05

 13:08

 13:09

13:11
Above pictures 31 May 2016

 11:25

11:25

11:25
Above a male 05 June 2016

13:52

 13:55

13:55
Above pictures 05 June 2016

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Above photos of a female: 21 Nov 2015 @ 11:16 (S4)

Note: On 27 Dec 2015, a female was seen depositing eggs on the young shoots of Saracca cauliflora. A week later, some caterpillars were seen feeding on the leaves but the the brood was completely decimated by a carnivorous cricket a week later.