Monday, December 22, 2014

The Peacock Royal, Tajuria cippus maxentius (Fruhstorfer)

Commoner in urban parks and villages with orchards where its foodplant Dendropthoe and Loranthus thrive as parasites on fruit and roadside trees.

Habitat indicator
RSP
WV
PG
VF
FTR
SC
LWDF
LWPF
LMEF
UMN
MN


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 x

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x





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

2014
2015
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mac
Apr
May
June
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

 S7





S6







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











 S20

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















Above pictures of a female: 22 Dec 2014 @ 14:57

a newly eclosed male in my own garden: 28 June 2015 @ 13:29

This male came to nectar on Chromolaena odorata @ 230m : 24 Dec 2016 @ 14:30


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