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A male orange-bellied trogon near its nest. Taken within the grounds of 100% Aventura, an adventure park, which has several attractions including canopy tours (e.g., zip lines) and cloud forest adventures (e.g., hanging bridges). It's a bumpy ride from the town of Santa Elena, in the Monteverde area.
Finally! Until now, I had only seen goatweed leafwings (Anaea andria) that were smaller than a grain of rice. I was excited to see several that were middle and late instars Sunday. - On croton
Fountainea glycerium (Angled Leafwing). Photographed at La Rompida, Vichada, Colombia on 21 October 2024.
Known from Bamaga (Cape York Peninsula), Font Hills (near Mt Molloy), and Mt. Pinnacle (near Dimbulah), west of the Atherton Tableland, in vine thicket and monsoon rainforest.
This Asystasia sp. is a very attractive plant that spreads into a large clump several metres wide. It can provide ground cover in shaded areas since it spreads by layering as well as by seeds. It dies back in the winter dry season, but is resurrected by the first summer rains. Though it becomes deciduous in long dry periods, it is evergreen if watered during the dry season.
There seems to be some confusion with this name, and the Queensland Herbarium had it listed as A. australasica along with a completely different plant. This other plant is in fact a Rhaphidospora species which has also been listed as Asystasia gangetica subsp. micrantha. The plant currently listed as Asystasia australasica by the CSIRO herbarium is the real one which only occurs in the Torres Strait, so the confusion continues.
Although A. sp. Newcastle Bay looks somewhat similar to the commonly grown exotic Asystasia gangetica, it is rarely used as a host plant by the butterflies that relish the exotic species. There may be two different species, as the one from Cape York is commonly used as a host plant by the Blue-banded Eggfly and Leafwing butterflies, but these butterflies rarely touch the southern form of this plant. I have examined specimens of the Cape York plant and it certainly looks the same as the southern form.
A male orange-bellied trogon near its nest. Taken within the grounds of 100% Aventura, an adventure park, which has several attractions including canopy tours (e.g., zip lines) and cloud forest adventures (e.g., hanging bridges). It's a bumpy ride from the town of Santa Elena, in the Monteverde area.
Angled Leafwing
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