Common Sailor (Neptis hylas)

Common Sailor (Neptis hylas), is a species of brush-footed butterflies (Nymphalidae family) found in the Indian subcontinent and South-East Asia. Another butterfly described by Linnaeus in Systema Naturae.

It has a characteristic stiff gliding flight, short and shallow wingbeats just above the horizontal, which probably earned the common name sailor. There are more than 150 species of this genus Neptis which are all referred as Sailors or typical sailors and are form old world.

Four sub-species seen in India out of which only one in mainland Indian Common Sailer (Neptis hylas varmona) and rest three are in Andaman and Nicobar islands.

• https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/120300
• Neptis hylas (Wikipedia)
• Neptis hylas (I Found Butterflies)

Fulvous Pied Flat (Pseudocoladenia dan)

Fulvous Pied Flat (Pseudocoladenia dan) is distributed in Indomalyan realm. It is a Spread-Winged Skipper (Pyrginae subfamily of Hesperiidae family). 

Originally described by Fabricius in 1787 as Papilio dan. Two subspecies are seen in India first Pseudocoladenia dan dan or Sahyadri Fulvous Pied Flat and Pseudocoladenia dan fabia or Himalayan Fulvous Pied Flat seen in NE India. Another species Pseudocoladenia faith or Western Himalayan Pied Flat was treated as a subspecies earlier.

• https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/120277
• Pseudocoladenia dan (Wikipedia)
• Pseudocoladenia dan (I Found Butterflies)
• Pseudocoladenia fatih (I Found Butterflies)
• Pseudocoladenia (Funet)

Odontolabis Beetles

Odontolabis is a genus of beetles belonging to the Lucanidae family. Members of this genus are usually large, oblong and shiny with males having enlarged head and jaws. In some species the males have different shapes of the jaws (polymorphic). This genus is south east Asian. This particular one I met in Wynad, Kerala, India. 

• https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/117971