Commelina maculata

Commelina maculata

Elevation: 2285 meters. Native range of commelina maculata is Himalaya to Peninsular Malaysia.


Cyanotis arachnoidea

Cyanotis arachnoidea

Elevation: 2430 meters. Native range of cyanotis arachnoidea is West Tropical Africa to Tanzania, India to Taiwan.


Cyanotis arachnoidea

Cyanotis arachnoidea

Elevation: 2459 meters. Native range of cyanotis arachnoidea is West Tropical Africa to Tanzania, India to Taiwan.


Commelina albescens

Commelina albescens

Native range of Commelina albescens is Eritrea to Malawi, Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan to West India Elevation: 641 meters.


Commelina forskalaei

Commelina forskalaei

My first thought when I saw commelina forskalaei was that how did it come all the way here from South America. In Pantanal I found lots of Commelina erecta,…


Thoasa Sister (Adelpha thoasa)

Thoasa Sister (Adelpha thoasa)

Another species in the Adelpha genus! Some are very hard to identify as the patterns look very similar, but this thoasa sister (Adelpha thoasa) is of the easy…


Orsilochus Daggerwing (Marpesia orsilochus)

Orsilochus Daggerwing (Marpesia orsilochus)

This orsilochus daggerwing (Marpesia orsilochus) was seemingly quite territorial, as I found it either on the ground or on the vegetation in the same area…


Commelina erecta

Commelina erecta

Native range of commelina erecta is America, Africa and Arabia.


Commelina erecta

Commelina erecta

Native range commelina erecta is America, Africa and Arabia.


Mesentina Sister (Adelpha mesentina)

Mesentina Sister (Adelpha mesentina)

The diversity of butterflies here is staggering, and only when I got home did I see that what I briefly in the field thought of as the same species of Adelpha…