Whilst birdwatching the bottom valley of
the Raydah Escarpment in the Asir Mountains of southwest Saudi Arabia, I came
across and photographed a Scarlet Tip Colotis danae. The white, base of wings
generally speckled to a varying extent, with black scales. This speckling can
be absent in many specimens. Forewing: with or without a minute black spot. The
apex is broadly carmine, edged internally and externally with black, this black
border varies in width. The hindwing is uniform, except for a series of black
terminal spots, which in some specimens are comparatively large and connected
together by an anticiliary slender black line, in others minute, more or less
obsolescent, unconnected dots.
No comments:
Post a Comment