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daveuk · by daveuk » Sun Mar 26, 2023 7:29 pm

livingplanet3 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 26, 2023 5:56 pm Very nice! I have only a single specimen of Moduza in my collection - M. lymire, from Sulawesi -

Great photo. I have lymire too. It's a beautiful species.

KKarns · by KKarns » Sun Mar 26, 2023 6:37 pm

Nice video. What a collection! Thanks for posting.

livingplanet3 · by livingplanet3 » Sun Mar 26, 2023 5:56 pm

Very nice! I have only a single specimen of Moduza in my collection - M. lymire, from Sulawesi -

daveuk · by daveuk » Sun Mar 26, 2023 5:21 pm

adamcotton wrote: ↑Sun Mar 26, 2023 3:08 pm Is this an aberrant ssp. gordion from the Philippines?

Adam.

Sadly no data Adam. From an old collection.

adamcotton · by adamcotton » Sun Mar 26, 2023 3:26 pm

Lovely specimens, but Papilio dehaanii is a separate species to P. bianor. Your specimens from Honshu, Japan are ssp. dehaanii. True P. bianor only occurs in Yaeyama Islands (Ishigaki etc) in southernmost Japan. There is a third species, P. ryukyuensis on Okinawa (ssp. ryukyuensis) and Amami (ssp. amamiensis), whereas the population on Tokara Island (ssp. tokaraensis) belongs to P. dehaanii.

This has been confirmed in a very important paper on genus Papilio (s.l.) that has just been published in pre-proof form. We are not very happy that the publishing company is selling copies of the pre-proof version, which will be different in some small ways to the final official version. This policy will result in more than one version in circulation. Luckily in this case there will not be any scientific differences between the versions. Once the final online version is published I will tell everyone here about it and the many changes to Papilio taxonomy resulting from this paper. In the case of the three species above we only confirmed previous findings, nothing really new.

Adam.

adamcotton · by adamcotton » Sun Mar 26, 2023 3:08 pm

Is this an aberrant ssp. gordion from the Philippines?

Adam.

daveuk · by daveuk » Sun Mar 26, 2023 2:03 pm

Two males. One shown upper & underside. All with data. Think this is subspecies sadona from Laos

ColoradEO · by ColoradEO » Sun Mar 26, 2023 1:51 pm

Hi SEAZ experts, I was thinking about trying out a SEAZ monsoon moth trip again this year, but looking at the lunar calendar, it looks like the moon is full smack dab when I assumed the monsoon aligned? What are y’all’s thoughts? Is there a window? Will the moon be too much competition? When would you go if you believe it’s worth the trip?

Eric

daveuk · by daveuk » Sun Mar 26, 2023 1:44 pm

Pair shown upper & underside. Leyte, Philippines.

daveuk · by daveuk » Sun Mar 26, 2023 1:38 pm

Pair of summer form & female of spring form with data. I don't have a male of the spring form.

daveuk · by daveuk » Sun Mar 26, 2023 8:45 am

Upper & underside Graphium eurypylus in my collection. This needs re-setting.

boghaunter1 · by boghaunter1 » Sun Mar 26, 2023 4:36 am

Thanks so much daveuk for your compassion.

Hopefully I'll be back to near normal by year's end & ready... for next year! I really enjoy finding interesting videos & unusual/rare "bug" photos to share with the like minded crowd here on the Insectnet site. I have to also Thank you daveuk, again, in return, for all your posts of your immaculately curated & beautiful specimens... they are a delight to see!

John K.

boghaunter1 · by boghaunter1 » Sun Mar 26, 2023 4:18 am

Have you got half an hour to spare? Check out this fabulous video. It is in German (I think?!... someone please correct me if I'm wrong..), but the language of "bugs" is universal. Does anyone know this collector & can tell us more. Is he still with us? What is the current status of his massive collection? The amazing thing about this collection is that he only shows us a few drawers out of each huge cabinet (even has the Alexandra Birdwing!) & every drawer viewed is spectacular!.... what else is there in the dozens of unseen drawers?... we can only imagine!

Lindenfels Schmetterlingssammlung - Hansjorg Morckel... 29 minutes:

John K. ENJOY!

livingplanet3 · by livingplanet3 » Sun Mar 26, 2023 4:11 am

hewi wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 1:48 pm Papilio daedalus & Papilio pericles...

Those are amazing variants!

daveuk · by daveuk » Sun Mar 26, 2023 1:24 am

boghaunter1 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 11:08 pm Hi Trehopr1,

I will try sometime, but not now, as I am still recovering from my left hip joint replacement & am still in considerable pain as I am still awaiting word on when I can get my other right hip done as well! Right now I am still hobbling around with the aid of two walking canes & cannot carry about glass cases or anything heavy, especially my precious insects!... in fear of dropping them... I think you can understand. My life has come to a near complete standstill since a very bad fall I had in Jan, 2021 & I hope to be better by this fall... provided I have my 2nd surgery this year sometime from spring to fall. All I can really do right now is upload 15 year old photos to this site & spend a lot of time on the internet looking at "bug" videos... & recommending some for you here!

John K.

Hope you are in much better shape come the autumn John. Meanwhile thanks for all your posts. Much appreciated.

daveuk · by daveuk » Sun Mar 26, 2023 1:15 am

58chevy wrote: ↑Sun Mar 26, 2023 12:35 am I'm surprised that the abdomens are still attached. Were they removed and re-attached, or is there now a method of preventing greasing that I don't know about?

They were attached when I got them as papered. I took a risk & set them with abdomens on.
Have some closely related species where the abdomens were removed. These are subspecies of Morpho deidamia. M d electra from Bolivia & M d deidamia from French Guyana

58chevy · by 58chevy » Sun Mar 26, 2023 12:35 am

I'm surprised that the abdomens are still attached. Were they removed and re-attached, or is there now a method of preventing greasing that I don't know about?

boghaunter1 · by boghaunter1 » Sat Mar 25, 2023 11:08 pm

Hi Trehopr1,

I will try sometime, but not now, as I am still recovering from my left hip joint replacement & am still in considerable pain as I am still awaiting word on when I can get my other right hip done as well! Right now I am still hobbling around with the aid of two walking canes & cannot carry about glass cases or anything heavy, especially my precious insects!... in fear of dropping them... I think you can understand. My life has come to a near complete standstill since a very bad fall I had in Jan, 2021 & I hope to be better by this fall... provided I have my 2nd surgery this year sometime from spring to fall. All I can really do right now is upload 15 year old photos to this site & spend a lot of time on the internet looking at "bug" videos... & recommending some for you here!

John K.

boghaunter1 · by boghaunter1 » Sat Mar 25, 2023 10:47 pm

Many years ago while out collecting dragonflies on a favorite stretch of backroad, (the same road where I also collected those ab. Mourning Cloaks shown in one of the Lepidoptera threads)... I came across a beautiful & unique looking (in flight) spectacle I had never seen before (or have since!)

. It was a startingly colorful little cranefly (for a cranefly that is!) commonly called a Phantom Crane Fly - Bittacomorpha clavipes. In doing a little research I found that it is quite widespread in eastern N. Am. right up to the eastern edge of the Rocky mountains. Even though it is quite widespread in it's distribution it is uncommon/rare in the central, drier prairie regions of N. Am.. It likes cool, damp, shady woods along nearby water sources. As mentioned before, it was the only specimen I have ever seen up here in central NE Sask., CANADA. It's long wispy, thread-like legs (flattened & elongated at the ends) are marked with alternating & very contrasting rings of black & white & are held spread wide to the sides as it "floats or hovers" about in the air. The delicate body, fluttering wings & inner parts of the legs completely disappear in flight giving it it's distinctive "phantom" name. I was absolutely stumped when I first came upon it floating about... I didn't have a clue as to what I was looking at! Luckily I managed to net it just before it veered off the shady road where it would have, no doubt, tried to get away, & would have quickly completely blended in & disappeared among the underbrush. Upon gingerly taking it out of the net I immediately recognized it as a crane fly... WOW... what a little beauty... looked like something that should be flying around in the tropics!

Due to its delicate & fragile build I ended up just preserving it in a vial of alcohol. Below are a few clear closeup YouTube videos I found of it sitting/walking about on foliage & a second of it's unique appearance in flight (0:40 to 2:20). Anyone else familiar with this species?

John K.

Trehopr1 · by Trehopr1 » Sat Mar 25, 2023 10:29 pm

Hi John,

Can we see some of your finished dragonflies that look so nice?

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