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FIVE-BAR SWORDTAIL


FIVE-BAR SWORDTAIL
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Copyright: Sumon Sinha (Mana) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1899 W: 36 N: 5578] (18516)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-07-04
Categories: Insects
Camera: Sony Cybershot DSC-H2
Exposure: f/3.7, 1/125 seconds
Details: (Fill) Flash: Yes
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2009-01-14 8:04
Viewed: 851
Points: 72
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Today I present this most beautiful butterfly - the Five-bar Swordtail. Though this was taken long time back I did not post it because I was not happy with the quality. I could not resist the temptation today and I think this is the first time that this species is featuring on TN. This picture was taken inside Chandaka WLS, hand-held and in fading light, hence the use of flash lighting. Hope everyone like it.

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Five-bar Swordtail, Graphium antiphates, is a species of papilionid butterfly found in South Asia.

Upperside of males and females white. Fore wing: cell crossed by five short black bands, of which the basal extends to the dorsum, the sub-basal into interspace 1, the medial and pre-apical up to the median vein, and the apical or fifth along the discocellulars; this last extends broadly on both sides of the veinlets and terminates at the lower apex of the cell; beyond these are broad postdiscal and terminal black transverse bands from costa to tornal angle; the two bands coalesce below vein 4 and terminate in a point at the tornus; the white portions of the cell anteriorly overlaid with pale green; short macular hyaline green bands between the black cellular apical band and the discal band and anteriorly between the latter and the terminal band. Hind wing: basal three-fourths uniform white, with black markings on the underside that show through by transparency; terminal fourth dark grey traversed by a curved irregular subterminal series of black lunules that ends in a black tornal spot and a terminal black band that follows the indentations of the wing; the emargination below the black tornal spot edged with ochraceous; the tail blackish-grey, edged and tipped with white.

Underside; fore wing similar with similar markings, but the green shading over the white portions in the basal half of the cell more decided; the discal and terminal transverse black bands separate, not joined posteriorly, the former edged posteriorly on both sides by dark grey due to the black on the upperside that shows through by transparency. Hind wing: basal half green, outer half white; a large black tornal spot; a black line along the dorsum that curves above the tornal spot outwards to vein 2; a straight subbasal black band from costa across cell that terminates on vein 2, where it joins the dorsal black line; a broader black band from costa across apex of cell extended into base of interspace 3; an irregular discal series of black markings curved inwards posteriorly towards the tornal spot; a subterminal series of very small slender black lunules in pairs, the ground-colour on the inner side of these darkened to rich ochreous-yellow; lastly, a series of short terminal black bars in the interspaces so arranged as to follow indentations of the termen; tail dusky black edged with white. Antenna black; head and thorax anteriorly with a broad black medial band, rest of thorax bluish; abdomen white, marked beneath on each side by a black stripe.

Scientific classification -
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Subfamily: Papilioninae
Genus: Graphium
Species: G. antiphates
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wonderful capture , perfect light and fine details , very beautiful colours and sharp , good DOF ,
septimiu

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  • PeterZ Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2345 W: 92 N: 5348] (17102)
  • [2009-01-14 8:18]

Hello neighbour Sumon,
Much more colored than my photo. Very beautiful butterfly. Great saturated colours, sharpness and details. Excellent composition and DOF.
Regards,
Peter

HI Sumon,
wow - I've never seen such a long tail at a butterfly. Also pretty colours and a beautiful design on the wings. Thanks and greetings
Sabine - wishnugaruda

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  • batu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1056 W: 289 N: 3914] (13202)
  • [2009-01-14 9:10]

Hello Sumon,
thank you for posting this nice picture of the beautiful Graphium antiphates which I could observe
on Sumatra couple of years ago without an Olympus E-1. You focused precisely on the butterfly and
reproduced the colours in an excellent way.
Best wishes, Peter

It is true Mana'esque style Sumon. It is good technically but nature decided that an odd colour combination be the one for this...in India where all colours are glorified and enjoyed, you have perhaps a different way of looking at hings...same is true in music...We use the chromatic scale...while other countries use different..same as in language...but music is much easier to translate..and your eye is attuned from birth...Lovely shot..
Bob

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  • siggi Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1336 W: 56 N: 4502] (15508)
  • [2009-01-14 10:51]

Hello Sumon,
Magnificent Swordtail close up. POV,sharpness,crisp clear details,blurred BG,framing and composition are wonderful.Excellent work!
Best regards Siggi

hello Sumon
beautiful picture
great colours and sharpness
greeting lou

Hi Sumon, fantastic butterfly with splendid colors, fine details and wonderful sharpness, superb macro, very well done, ciao Silvio

hello Sumon
what a beautfiul butterfly and its great close-up. Swordtail is somewhat similar to Swallowtails here. Of course both of them are from same family:) I like very much this colorful species. You captured it with a great focus, POV, composition and colors. Nicely framed and noted. thanks for sharing
best wishes
Ahmet

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  • Argus Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3748 W: 186 N: 11161] (34473)
  • [2009-01-14 12:08]

Hello Sumon,
A fine capture of this Graphium species of swallowtail, the POV being fine but making total sharpness difficult. However most of it is sharp and shown in great lighting with the fine use of flash.
A nice image of a spectacular butterfly and thanks for sharing it,
Ivan

Hi Sumon, what a beauty.? i did not see this Five-bar Swordtail butterfly before. Great macro capture my friend.
TFS and cheers,
Bayram

Hi Sumon
Excellent shot of this Five-bar Swordtail .
Perfect details,lighting and POV .Welldone.

Regards
Fartash

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  • Nilson Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 442 W: 0 N: 427] (3110)
  • [2009-01-14 14:35]

Hello Sumon
Excellent shot with good elements, the picture look like a painting. The composition is very natural and clear. Beautiful picture
Congratulations
Nilson

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  • jaycee Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2493 W: 11 N: 6885] (21912)
  • [2009-01-14 15:12]

Hi Sumon,

This Five-bar Swordtail certainly is a most beautiful butterfly. The colors are stunning - seems to me I have only seen green in a butterfly once before. Fantastic details showing off the head, body, magnificent wing markings and the tail. I love the pose following the contour of the leaf. Perfect setting, background and composition.

Jane

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  • Luis52 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1109 W: 5 N: 3453] (12751)
  • [2009-01-14 17:48]

Hola Sr. Sumon.
The colors of butterfly matches well with the rest of the photo. Great work My friend, never seen this before.
Luis52

I agree with you, Sumon. I think this is the very first picture of this species on TN. Congratulations!
The picture is very good, contrary to your assumption. The details are perfect and the colours are pretty good, though flash light sometimes does subdue the brilliance.
Well done and TFS.
Ram

hello sumon,
i have never seen this species, its so beautiful, you did a correct thing by posting it here, the pov is good and the wing pattern is clearly visible, liked the composition too,
tfs & regards
pankaj

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  • Alex99 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3551 W: 143 N: 5621] (18399)
  • [2009-01-14 21:07]

Hi Sumon.
May be quality is not the high end in selected aspects but this is nature photography and subject is really has one value. First of all this is rare and very beautiful species and specimen of butterfly. It is really wonderful as well as the pictures scene at whole. Selected POV is great and composition of the image is blameless. You have use flash excellently. Colours and illumination of the entire scene are perfect too. What is not very good at the shot? I think nothing is. My kind regards, TFS and all the best.
Alexei.

Ciao Sumon,
bellissima immagine di questo Papilionide catturato con ottima definizione e con un eccellente POV in una bella posa che esalta i magnifici colori e disegni delle ali, mi piace molto anche la composizione con la prospettiva diagonale.
TFS.
Maurizio

Sumon merhaba,bulunduğu ortamın renklerini taşıyan bu kelebek harika görünüyor.Ellerine sağlık :)

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  • eng55 Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1074 W: 30 N: 1046] (3270)
  • [2009-01-15 2:38]

Hi Sumon,
Lovely capture.POV,colors,lighting and details are excellent.
Thanks for posting.

Hi sumon,

This splendid shot of beautiful butterfly,you have executed it very well,nice colours too. Again wish there was little more space, well I think you like it that way.TFS.

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  • fiyo Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 986 W: 5 N: 2715] (10472)
  • [2009-01-15 7:31]

Hello Sumon,
Very nice capture.I liked vivid colors,POV,framing and composition a lot.TFS

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  • Jamesp Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1351 W: 0 N: 5494] (16520)
  • [2009-01-15 23:38]

Hello Sumon

A lovely pose with very good colours and nice detail. Well seen and captured.

James

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  • Heaven Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 777 W: 105 N: 1668] (5838)
  • [2009-01-15 23:54]

Hi Sumon!

I believe you have made the right choice when you decided to post this picture. Sometimes the general interest overrides the questions of quality. I mean the fact that this butterfly never has been posted on TN before is very important. I would like to congratulate you for this. As far as the quality is concerned, it's fairly good considering the difficult conditions you experienced. It seems to me that I can recognize the traces of some postprocessing, but here's nothing really bad. It's a fine and highly valuable posting.

Kind regards

Markus

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  • anel Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1689 W: 0 N: 3811] (15342)
  • [2009-01-16 6:02]

Hello Sumon,
This is indeed a lovely butterfly, which is such a pleasure to look at. A rare view and what a shape and colors. Must be one of the most beautiful butterflies which exists. I just hope that in the future we will see other pictures of this shy beauty.
Thanks a lot for this unique posting
Anne

Hi Sumon Da,
A nice capture of this beautiful fivebar swordtail. Very well composed with good details. Thanks a lot for sharing.

Hi Sumon,
I don't think I've seen this spectacular species before.
What amazing colours and patterns!
I wish we had butterflies like this here.
Wonderful capture of this beauty.
TFS and Cheers,
Steve

Sumon: vaya maravillas que tenéis por la India !!!

Una Papilionidae muy bien captada, cuya especie no habita en nuestras latitudes.

Excelente trabajo.

Un abrazo: Josep Ignasi

hello Sumon !
Wow, what a splendid buttefly ! He looks a bit like ou Swallowtails, but with more beautiful colors and a slendid long tail. You managed to capture him with excellent details, and I also like the composition, the POV and the vivid colors. You also made excellet use of your flash, without over-exposing the butterfly. Very well done !
Valerie.

Hi Sumon,

I would love to have swordtails in my collection. This capture is envious with such beautiful colors and sharp details. Nice perch and very good silenced background.

TFS and best regards,
Jusni

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  • joey Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2001 W: 226 N: 6845] (24727)
  • [2009-01-18 13:26]

What a stunningly coloured butterfly!
Excellent sharpness.
Very well composed.
Great DOF.

Very good work, Sumon!

Joe

Hello Sumon

A beautiful butterfly with excellent pose captured.
Well placed in the frame with a nice diagonal look.
Very good colours and well illuminated.
Excellent POV and DOF.
TFS

Wolf

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  • iris Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 469 W: 60 N: 947] (3016)
  • [2009-01-19 0:31]

Hi Sumon,
Good decision to finally show it to the world.The details on the wings of this butterfly i have never seen is quite exquisite.THe sharpness and overal qulality of the image is still good.
Thanks much for sharing this wonderful species.
Cheers
Silpa

Hello Sumon,
Wow, it´s a wonderfuly nice butterfly, with an amazing body shape and marvelous colours pattern. You´ve done a nice pic of it.
Regards
Hernán

harmonious colors of subject & BG
very nice
jc

amazing colours, TFS Ori

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