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Yellow Orange tip


Yellow Orange tip
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Copyright: Arjun Haarith (Arjun) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 359 W: 7 N: 1114] (5420)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2009-11-05
Categories: Insects
Camera: Nikon D90, 18-105mm 3.5 - 5.6G ED AF-S VR Nikkor
Exposure: f/6.3, 1/125 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2009-11-07 8:46
Viewed: 155
Points: 26
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Yellow Orange Tip , Ixias pyrene is a small butterfly of the Family Pieridae, that is, the Yellows and Whites, which is found in India.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Ixias
Species: I. pyrene
Binomial name
Ixias pyrene

Dry-season brood. Male upperside: deep sulphur-yellow. Fore wing: base and basal half of costa thickly irrorated with black scales; apical half of the wing black, with an enclosed, large, irregularly triangular, orange-coloured patch, the apex of which is more or less broadly rounded and blunt; the orange colour extends into the apex of the cell bat is interrupted there by a black discocellular spot that spreads diffusely inwards and joins the black oblique bar which forms the base of the orange patch ; veins that traverse this latter, black. Hind wing: uniform with a little black scaling at extreme base; termen with a dusky-black somewhat narrow border (sometimes entirely absent) which decreases in width posteriorly.

Underside: a darker yellow, sparsely irrorated with fusco-ferruginous short strigae and minute spots. Fore wing: base and posterior area broadly, with a whitish pale virescent tint; the strigae and minute spots most numerous towards the apex and along the termen; interspaces 4, 5, 6 and 8 with a curved sub-apical series of small, rounded, dull ferruginous spots and a similar spot on the discocellulars. Hind wing also with a ferruginous spot on the discocellulars, followed by a postdiscal series of similar spots in interspaces 3 to 8, all or most of them centred with white; the spots in interspaces 5, 6 and 8 the largest, those in 5 and 6 often coalescent. Antennae and thorax anteriorly dull ferruginous, thorax posteriorly and abdomen above fuscous black; head, thorax and abdomen beneath yellow.

Female upperside: white faintly tinged with yellow. Fore wing: apical half black, with an enclosed, irregular, broad, oblique patch of the ground-colour that extends into the upper apex of the cell, on the inner side of this the black is reduced to a short oblique bar broadened at the lower apex of the cell, from whence it is continued as a somewhat slender diffuse oblique streak to the tornus, where it broadens again abruptly and meets the black on the termen; the outer margin of the oblique white patch is irregularly crenulate, sometimes trisinuate; the black colour on the apex often forms a right angle on vein 4; on the white patch posteriorly there is a black spot in interspace 2 and another in interspace 3. Hind wing: uniform, a few subobsolete slender, fuscous, transverse strigae posteriorly; the terminal margin sometimes with (more often without) a narrow dusky black edging, broadened anteriorly at the apices of the veins.

Underside: similar to that in the male, with similar markings, the ground-colour a dark dull ochraceous, the fusco-ferruginous strigae more numerous. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in the male.

I shot this picture at Lalbagh .
irishprophet25, marianas, nglen, Luis52, marius-secan, jlinaresp, sranjan, ferranjlloret, uleko, anel has marked this note useful
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Hi Arjun
Lovely photo of this butterfly with great detail and sharpness. I like the composition with the nicely blurred leaf in the background. TFS
Sion

Arjun
Wonderful capture this Yellow Orange Tip !
Great colors and details.
Mariana

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  • nglen Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2924 W: 34 N: 8671] (32310)
  • [2009-11-07 9:49]

Hi Arjun. This is a first class close up of this Yellow orange tip Butterfly. i like your side view so we can see the wing markings and lareg eye. All taken with fine detail and natural colours. all with interesting notes. well taken TFs.
Nick..

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  • Luis52 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1110 W: 5 N: 3457] (12761)
  • [2009-11-07 10:44]

Hola Arjun.
La iluminacion en las alas de la Mariposa es exelente. finos y delicados detalles se aprecian gracias a la calidad logada.
Saludos
Luis52.

hello!
nice composition
details , colors exellent
regards

Hello Arjun,
Lovely composition and sharp details. The colours are very natural.
The blurred dark green background is excellent.
Marius.

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  • batu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1061 W: 290 N: 3962] (13384)
  • [2009-11-07 13:06]

Hello Arjun,
suitable light so that the butterfly stands out clearly against the background.
Details of the wing pattern are nicely presented and shown with excellent sharpness.
Best wishes, Peter

Hi Arjun,

Impressive close-up in foreground, very constrasting dark green back ground. Masterfull composition with a POV some unusual.

Good work,

TFS

Jesús

Hello Arjun,
Very well shot macro photograph with excellent details, sharpness & POV. The Yellow Orange Tip stands out very well sitting on a leaf in the framed background of Lalbagh. Very well done & thanks for sharing.
Best wishes-Subhash

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  • PeterZ Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2411 W: 94 N: 5569] (17712)
  • [2009-11-08 1:39]

Hello Arjun,
Excellent photo in fantastic light and colours. Great sharp details and a very good POV, DOF and composition.
Regards,
Peter

Ciao Arjun, great macro of lovely butterfly, wonderful natural colors, splendid details and excellent sharpness, very well done, have a good Sunday, ciao Silvio

Hi Arjun,
Nice capture and good composition of this pettry butterfly.
TFS. Ferran

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  • uleko Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3002 W: 162 N: 991] (2901)
  • [2009-11-08 11:31]

Hello Arjun,
Another masterpiece from you! A lovely butterfly very nicely captured against a beautiful background. Great sharpness and lovely colours too.
TFS and cheers, Ulla

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  • anel Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1731 W: 0 N: 3942] (15822)
  • [2009-11-09 2:35]

Hello Arjun,
A very pleasing composition, so simple and subtle. Very fine light too, which enhances the beauty of the scene too.The leaf in the front gives to the whole a three-dimensional character. Very well presented picture and note.
Thanks and kind regards
Anne

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