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LOOK: Pinoy biologists discover new butterfly subspecies in Panay

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Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/tvpatrol/12/12/butterfly_01.jpg"/><figcaption>The Ptychandra negrosensis angelalcalai, named after national scientist Dr. Angel Alcala, has narrower, shiny white band on the margin of its wings. <em>Photo from Jade Badon and Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo.</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA — Two Filipino biologists have discovered a new butterfly subspecies in Panay — the Ptychandra negrosensis angelalcalai. </p><p>In an interview with ABS-CBN News, Jade Badon, a biologist and instructor at Silliman University in Dumaguete City, said he and butterfly taxonomist Justin Nuyda discovered the subspecies upon reviewing the latter’s butterfly collection. </p><p>“We checked his collections and then found out that the specimens from Panay are different from the ones in Negros Island,” Badon said on Saturday. </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">LOOK: Filipino biologists have discovered a new subspecies of a butterfly in Panay — the Ptychandra negrosensis angelalcalai. Photo from Jade Badon and Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo. <a href="https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABSCBNNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/WaIm8MwZsA">pic.twitter.com/WaIm8MwZsA</a></p>— Job Manahan (@jobmanahan) <a href="https://twitter.com/jobmanahan/status/1337715283889332225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2020</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Nuyda collected the specimen on Mount Madja-as some time during the 1980s, he added.</p><p>The biologist pointed out that the discovery proved that each island in the country could have unique species or subspecies.</p><p>“The subspecies in Panay has narrower shiny white band sa margin ng wings, while mas malapad and diagonal ang sa Negros Island.” </p><p>The new subspecies was named after Dr. Angel C. Alcala, a national scientist. </p><p>The discovery was <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346960845_A_new_subspecies_of_Ptychandra_negrosensis_Banks_Holloway_Barlow_1976_Lepidoptera_Nymphalidae_Satyrinae_from_Panay_Island_Philippines/link/5fd3fd8092851c13fe7be78c/download">published</a> On Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo (NEVA), an entomological journal, for the month of December.</p><p>In June, Badon also discovered new butterfly subspecies Appias phoebe nuydai on a volcano in Negros Oriental. </p><p>He said the Appias subspecies, named after Nuyda, is the sixth of its kind found in the country. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/06/18/20/filipino-biologist-discovers-new-butterfly-subspecies-in-negros-peak">READ: Filipino biologist discovers new butterfly subspecies in Negros peak</a></li></ul><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO: </strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IP42E5XvnBo?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>Two Filipino biologists have discovered the new butterfly subspecies in Panay — the Ptychandra negrosensis angelalcalai. </p>

Two Filipino biologists have discovered the new butterfly subspecies in Panay — the Ptychandra negrosensis angelalcalai.

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LOOK: Pinoy biologists discover new butterfly subspecies in Panay

Job Manahan,

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Published December 12, 2020 07:40 PM PHT

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