Latin Etymology: Tanaecia ("praise worthy"?) iapis ("healer"?)
Adult female Horsfield's Baron (subspecies T. a. puseda) at Lower Pierce Reservoir, Singapore - February 2019
Featured Subspecies: Tanaecia iapis puseda
Weight: ? / Length: ? / Wingspan: 6.5cm
NO UK STATUS / IUCN Red List: Not Yet Evaluated
A very highly sexually dimorphic species - the male is broadly two single blocks of colour - black and pale blue, while the female as seen in the picutre above is a subdued mottled arrangement of browns, oranged and creams somewhat resembling the colours of dead leaves. The species is named for Thomas Horsfield, an American Naturalist who was friends with Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, noted founder of colonial Singapore.
Related Species:
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Tanaecia
SUBSPECIES: T. i. puseda, presumably more?
- Sighting Locations -
SINGAPORE - A fairly common resident
Further Notes: BirdForum Opus, IUCN Red List, RSPB, Wikipedia, Xeno-canto
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