Gentle beauties: A picture from Jamiun’s collection of a Jewelled Nawab, or ‘Charaxes Delphis Concha’ (left) and a Tawny Rajah (‘Charaxes Bernardus Repetitus’). — Bernama
KOTA KINABALU: More than 400 species of preserved butterflies are housed in the Borneensis collection room of the Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation at Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) here.
Senior Curator of Borneensis Gallery Petherine Jimbau said some of the species on display at the gallery included a pair of the national butterflies Rajah Brooke’s birdwing (Trogonoptera brookiana), which are listed in Appendix II of CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora).She said the exhibition section also displayed a poster of the Sabah state butterfly – the Golden Kalibambang, or its scientific name Troides Andromache – after it was chosen as the official butterfly of Sabah on Sept 13 last year.“The Borneensis Gallery welcomes the Golden Kalibambang specimen as a reference for students and researchers in the future.
