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Common Snow Flat

vids — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 03:59:11 +0000

Tagiades japetus, commonly known as the pied flat or the common snow flat, is a species of spread-winged skipper butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is widely distributed, being found from India, the Himalayas, Southeast Asia, to Australia. It contains several recognized subspecies. Wikipedia

Life History by Butterflies of Singapore

Location: Lornie Corridor – Jan 2024

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Large Snow Flat

vids — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 04:01:15 +0000

Tagiades gana gana is one of the commonest representatives of this genus in Singapore. The wings above are dark brown with darker spots along the discal area of the wings. The tornal area of the hindwings is whitened and has diffuse black spots along the edge. ButterflyCircle

Tagiades gana, the immaculate snow flat, large snow flat or suffused snow flat, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae

Location: Lornie Corridor – April 2023

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Hyllus Diardi – Heavy Jumping spider

vids — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 14:44:58 +0000

Hyllus diardi is commonly known as heavy jumper. It is recognized as one of the largest jumping spiders in the world.

Hyllus is a genus of the spider family Salticidae. Most species occur in Africa and Madagascar, with many in Australasia and north to India. H. insularis is found in Greece and Iran, but it is considered misplaced in this genus, and is now Evarcha insularis. Wikipedia

Location: Lornie Road – February 2023

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Tasta sp

vids — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 12:05:57 +0000

The geometer moths are moths belonging to the family Geometridae of the insect order Lepidoptera, the moths and butterflies. Wikipedia

Location: Lornie Road – June 2022

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