Butterflying in Malaysia Part 3 - Bukit Tinggi

Bukit Tinggi is located in the Bentong district of the Pahang State. On 5 June after more than 2-hour drive, we arrived at the Berjaya Hill where the French-theme resort Colmar Tropicale is.  

Surprisingly, the butterfly diversity around this beautify resort is rather  rich. This Dark Posy (Drupadia theda)  always displayed its magnificent uppersides whenever it settled on a new perch under the morning sun.   

It took me quite awhile to snap its undersides shot.

More butterflies came out around noon. There were quite a number of Blue Dandy (Laringa castelnau). 

An inflight upperside shot wasn't intentional.

A solitary Malay Lacewing (Cethosia hypsea) appeared, fluttering around and sunbathing

This Batwing (Parides varuna) was feeding on flowers initially but it never stayed still.  When it rested with a few seconds of sunbathing, we quickly snapped a few shots. 

Not a good shot as the details of the wings were missing.  I have no time to remedy this as it scooted off in the next moment.

I was lucky to capture its taking-off moment.

Different species of butterflies came out different times. I found this Malayan Castor (Ariadne isaeus) shortly after noon.

This Red Lacewing (Cethosia biblis) was resting in a shade. 

The uppersides

There were two specimen of Seargent and one of them is  the Dot-Dash Seargeant (Athyma kanwa) 

It looks rather "haggard"  

Not sure why this lovely little beauty is given the common name, The Witch (Araotes lapithis uruwela).     

Another small fellow that stayed a bit high up is the Spotted Spark (Sinthusa malika). It never came close to me for a better shot.  

Perhaps due to the hill-topping behaviour of the butterflies, it is quite amazing to see the variety of species appearing here.  This is Sumatran Gem (Poritia sumatrae).

At around 1 pm, we drove down to the Japanese Garden and explored a forest trail. Here we spotted some shade-loving butterflies. This is a Purple Bush Brown (Mycalesis orseis).

Another Bush Brown, the Mycalesis maianeas was hopping from perch to perch in a shade.

 We were very lucky to see two Blue Begums (Prothoe franck) feeding on the trail - this is the more pristine specimen.

Though Bukit Tinggi is a bit far from KL. However, from various FB posts, I noticed that this particular location has rich butterfly diversity. I will be visiting this place again in the future.