Dingy bushbrown (Mycalesis perseus)

Dingy bushbrown (Mycalesis perseus) is an animal species in the Nymphalidae, a solitary butterfly and rarely in large flocks, dark brown color, ornate circles on the wing margins, lives in primary forest, secondary forest and agricultural land.

M. perseus has brown eyes, brown palps with white laterals. Antenna is brown. Thorax brown. Abdomen brown.

The wingspan is 4.2-4.5x2-2.2 cm. Dorsal: forewing and hindwing dark brown to pale, along hindwing tornus with termen to apex and white stripe. Ventral: forewing and hindwing have the same color as the dorsal.

Dingy bushbrown has at least seven subspecies. Lives in primary forest habitats, open forests, plantation and agricultural savanna with undergrowth and shrubs in the lowlands up to an elevation of 1000 meters.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Satyrinae
Tribe: Satyrini
Subtribe: Mycalesina
Genus: Mycalesis
Species: Mycalesis perseus
Subspecies: Mycalesis perseus ssp. blasius, Mycalesis perseus ssp. caesonia, Mycalesis perseus ssp. cepheus, Mycalesis perseus ssp. lalassis, Mycalesis perseus ssp. tabitha, Mycalesis perseus ssp. typhlus, Mycalesis perseus ssp. zia

Pong pong (Cerbera odollam)

Bintaro or pong pong ( Cerbera odollam ) is a plant species in Apocynaceae, a medium-sized tree with circular branches around the trunk, non-woody, gummy white, highly poisonous and the leaves are used for bioinsecticide, seeds are used as biodiesel material and often used for ornamental plants. C. odollam is less than 17 meters tall, grows upright, has low and sideways branches to form an umbrella canopy, the bark is thin and dark brown, lots of white sap, the whole stem has traces of circular petioles. Leaves have large stalks with thick strands, inverted or elongated ovoid, 4.5-7 cm wide, 15-30 cm long, blunt base, sharp tip, a large bone in the middle with sideways veins, dark green and shiny upper surface, the lower surface is lighter. The white flower is located at the end of the stem and long stalk. Trumpet-shaped crown with five tongues, tube 1.5-2 cm long, white with yellow tunnels and a few yellow hairs. The fruit is round, green in color with a green fibrous shell enclosi...

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Thomas Sutikna lives with Homo floresiensis

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