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Copyright: Narayanan Ganesan (gannu) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 996 W: 4 N: 2570] (11874)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-05-04
Exposure: f/10.0, 1/40 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-05-04 5:24
Viewed: 429
Points: 20
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Mottled Immigrant
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Today morning while I was watering my plants I saw this butterfly sitting. It was enjoying the wetness on the leaf and hence manage to take this picture. Thought I had nearly 20shots but this one I liked because it was sitting on a folded leaves and balancing between the leafs.

Mottled Emigrant
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The Mottled Emigrant is the rarest of the three Catopsilia species in Singapore. Whilst the other two species, the Orange Emigrant (Catopsilia scylla cornelia) and the Lemon Emigrant (Catopsilia pomona pomona) are essentially urban butterflies, the Mottled Emigrant is more often found in the fringes of the nature reserves where its host plant, Seven Golden Candlesticks (Cassia alata) is found. However, where Cassia alata is cultivated, it is likely that the butterfly will make its appearance.
The wings of the Mottled Emigrant are greenish white above and the forewing has a black apical border and a black cell-end spot. The underside is of a darker greenish hue and there are numerous reddish brown transverse stripes which give the species a 'mottled' look, hence its common name.

The Mottled Emigrant , Catopsilia pyranthe is a medium sized butterfly of the Family Pieridae found in South Asia, Southeast Asia and parts of Australia

Male
Upperside: chalky-white, slightly tinted in some specimens with green. Fore wing: with or without a discocellular black spot, that varies in size; costa and termen sometimes without a black margin; occasionally the costa has its apical third narrowly black, broadened slightly at the apex with black spots between the anterior veins; or again, the costa may be narrowly black, the apex very broadly so, and this colour continued down the termen but narrowed posteriorly. Hind wing: sometimes immaculate, but generally with narrow terminal black spots at the apices of the veins, these often reduced to mere dots, or again so broadened as to coalesce into a narrow terminal black margin.

Underside: ground-colour similar, suffused on the anterior half of the fore and over the whole surface of the hind wing with a greenish tint that varies to an ochraceous yellow, and, except in the very palest specimens, is evenly irrorated over the greenish or ochraceous-tinted areas with transverse, short, reddish-brown strigae; both fore and hind wings with generally an obscure discocellular reddish-brown spot or indication thereof.


[edit] Female
Upperside as in the male, but sometimes with a suffusion of pale greenish yellow on the terminal third or fourth only of both fore and hind wings, rarely of that tint throughout. Fore wing: always with a discocellular black spot that varies very much in size; costa sometimes narrowly black with the basal half pinkish, in other specimens narrowly black throughout, the black broadened at the apex and continued along the anterior half of the termen in a series of inwardly-pointed black spots; or again, the costa may be more broadly black, that colour widened considerably at the apex and continued broadly down the termen to vein 3, then suddenly narrowed to a slender line at the tornus; in most specimens there is an anterior postdiscal short black macular baud; in the dark forms this coalesce with the black on apex and termen. Hind wing: sometimes immaculate, sometimes with a series of terminal spots at the apices of the veins, sometimes with a narrow dusky-black terminal band broadest near the apex, narrowed posteriorly to a slender line at the tornus. In the very dark specimens there is in addition an ill-defined, short anterior postdiscal macular black band.

Underside: as in the male, with similar variations, but in addition in most specimens the discocellular spots are well-defined with an outer red ring that encircles a silvery spot; on the hind wing one or two similar spots on each side of the discocellulars; generally also both wings are crossed by a transverse postdiscal line of minute red spots, which on the fore wing is confined to the anterior portion, on the hind wing is nearly complete. In both sexes: antennae reddish, head and thorax anteriorly brown, thorax clothed posteriorly with long white hairs, abdomen white: beneath: the palpi, thorax and abdomen white

Source : Mr.Ram Thakur and Internet
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Tks for looking.

Technical Details
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Cropped
Brightness added
Contrast check done
Edited in picaso
Resize done

Tks for looking at my picture.

Ganesh
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Narayanan

Hi

This is a Mottled Emigrant ...Catopsilia pyranthe.

Rgds Mike.

Mike thinks it is a Mottled Emigrant and not a Cabbage White, Ganesan. There is no harm in having another look. There is, of course, maked resemblance with Cabbage White so far as the pattern of veins on the wings is concerned.

It is a very good capture. The details on the wings are sharp and clear. Maybe the focus is a bit soft, but that is a minor nit.
TFS.

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  • joey Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1880 W: 245 N: 6158] (21922)
  • [2007-05-04 7:15]
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Hi Ganesh,
another beautiful butterfly photo.
Good composition and POV.
Well done,
Joey

Hi Ganesh,
Beautiful butterfly.
Well done,
Biswarup

Hi ganesh,
Good picture, though there is more softness- unsharp? in the picture. Compo and POV is good. I think you have to work in PS.there is dust in your sensor.

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  • Argus Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2757 W: 147 N: 7955] (24769)
  • [2007-05-04 14:30]

Hello Ganesh,
Fine capture of a Mottled migrant with good sharpness and pleasing contrasting BG. This is a good shot, a slight improvement could be to have cropped a little more away from the left side, but that's a small point which does not detract from the quality of this shot.
TFS and best wishes, Ivan

Ganesan,

This looks very good. Nice catch of this rare beauty.

Regards,
Murali Santhanam

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  • Nilson Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 354 W: 0 N: 300] (2268)
  • [2007-05-04 21:36]

Uma bela e encantadora borboleta de qualidade exelente meus parabéns.
Nilson

Hi Ganesan,
This is a very lovely shot. TFS.
Cheers, Uma

buena composición. Foto algo difícil de captar según la luz por el color del insecto.
Saludos.

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  • arfer Gold Star Critiquer [C: 2731 W: 0 N: 0] (0)
  • [2007-05-26 22:37]
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Hello Ganesh

A lovely capture of this butterfly in a classic pose.The sharpness and details are very good.Very good POV and DOF too.The lighting and colours are very nice.TFS

Rob

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