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evra · by evra » Wed Sep 11, 2024 3:11 pm

Here are a few of the Saturniids I've caught in the last couple of months that are drying on my boards right now.

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wollastoni · by wollastoni » Wed Sep 11, 2024 9:41 am

As a Delias collector, I love this "bottoms up" topic !

Delias messalina messalina, Bougainville, Solomon islands

About Hypna clytemnestra, I met some in French Guiana. Very impressive black beast in the forest !

Cabintom · by Cabintom » Wed Sep 11, 2024 5:54 am

Thanks for your input Adam. I appreciate it!

Alienor · by Alienor » Wed Sep 11, 2024 2:58 am

I’m in eastern, Midwest us. Had to tear the siding off to get at a yellow jacket nest. With the regular sized workers were MANY very large, 1”, bees, with the same markings as the yellow jackets. They appeared to be sharing the same nest, the comb all looked the same as far as I could tell. Anybody know if these are two different species ? Never seen anything like this before. Thought the first one was the Queen, but they just kept coming, large and small. Thanks!

adamcotton · by adamcotton » Tue Sep 10, 2024 4:48 pm

I think it should be (Hewitson, 1866) as the date of publication was not stated in the part but apparently it was printed on the wrappers. The dates of publication of each part are known, and so the year 1866 is correct. If I understand correctly, the parts were not published in numerical order, which may have produced dating anomalies.

Adam.

Cabintom · by Cabintom » Tue Sep 10, 2024 5:04 am

Thanks Adam. Yeah, I had consulted Funet. I'm wondering how that 1866 date was arrived at. There must be some reasoning why it's that and not some year between 1872 & 1876.
Also wondering if it should be (Hewitson, 1866) or (Hewitson, [1866])?

58chevy · by 58chevy » Tue Sep 10, 2024 1:57 am

Great examples. Thanks!

58chevy · by 58chevy » Tue Sep 10, 2024 12:02 am

Those Anaea are spectacular! Thanks for posting.

daveuk · by daveuk » Mon Sep 09, 2024 10:04 pm

Three undersides of Hypna(Anaea)clytemnestra.
Have always found the underside of this species very attractive.
I think the female from Brazil is subspecies huebneri.

daveuk · by daveuk » Mon Sep 09, 2024 9:13 pm

I agree that undersides can be just as beautiful as uppersides. A male Sephisa Chandra from Taiwan & a female from Vietnam.
A female Kallima inachus alboinachus also from Viet Nam before going into the relaxer.

livingplanet3 · by livingplanet3 » Mon Sep 09, 2024 5:46 pm

Many thanks for posting. Yes - true that the verso side of many Lepidoptera can be just as striking (if not even more so) than the recto. Many such examples come to mind among the Charaxinae especially, such as:

Agatasa calydonia -

https://butterflycircle.blogspot.com/2017/11/

Charaxes andranodorus -

https://www.aureus-butterflies.de/

Charaxes fournierae -

https://www.aureus-butterflies.de/

Polyura dehanii -

https://www.aureus-butterflies.de/

Aljosha · by Aljosha » Mon Sep 09, 2024 4:53 pm

Hello everyone

I just registered and would like to tell a bit more about myself. My name is Aljosha and I have been doing antkeeping for 14 years now. I recently got hired as a specimen collector for a research study on the butterfly Melanitis leda. Doing this project a passion for butterfly collecting arose for me in South africa. However my partner is doing her PhD in nature conservation and we will be moving back to Europe for her to complete her study.

Through having my own collection in Belgium and South africa, and already having a passion for macrophotography, I found myself photographing the specimens I caught and bought in 4-8K high quality resolution + being able to restore damanged butterflies back to 100% again since I am a graphic designer and illustrator by trade (using photoshop). I amassed a following of around 15K people on instagram, and some months millions of views, sharing these pictures. Myself, I don't gain anything money related out of it, more as a passion and a hobby, exposing more people to the beauty of these amazing creatures. On my instagram you can see all these pictres: https://www.instagram.com/aljoshad_/ I uploaded a few to the site yet the 800Kb limit is not doing them well !

I was wondering if anyone would be interested in any professional pictures of butterflies, shipping them to me and having pictures taken of the specimen. These could be for all uses, personal use, websites, products etc. or just having that high quality picture. I am however unable to buy all specimens, hence this post. I am definitly willing to pay for some of them if need be. Would any of you be willing to help this small collector out ?

Kind regards Aljosha

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58chevy · by 58chevy » Mon Sep 09, 2024 3:54 pm

Top to bottom: Utetheisa ornatrix, Papilio palamedes, Papilio cresphontes

58chevy · by 58chevy » Mon Sep 09, 2024 3:50 pm

Top to bottom: Catocala sp, Chlosyne janais, Chlosyne lacinia

58chevy · by 58chevy » Mon Sep 09, 2024 3:45 pm

The undersides of some specimens are just as showy as the upper sides. Show us yours.
Top to bottom: Agraulis vanillae, Adelpha eulalia, Papilio polyxenes

wollastoni · by wollastoni » Mon Sep 09, 2024 1:30 pm

I agree with Manfred (of course !).
"Rio Tapajos" is a very large area but it should be ssp. croesus or ssp. lucianus, and none look like your specimen.
https://agrias-butterflies.com/agrias-c ... -lucianus/

I would also bet on ssp. lugens.

hewi · by hewi » Mon Sep 09, 2024 8:53 am

You are right, it is claudina.
However, the butterfly does not correspond to the ssp. that flies at the Rio Tapajoz. But it corresponds exactly to the ssp. lugens from Peru. I am therefore 100 per cent sure that the locality is wrong.

mothman27 · by mothman27 » Mon Sep 09, 2024 1:50 am

Looking for some opinions on what species/subspecies this is. To me looks like A. claudina... But it doesn't look like the forms I'd expect based on collection data. I'm just going based of info online.

Data: Rio Tapajos, Amazonas state, Brazil
Wingspan 80mm

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bandrow · by bandrow » Mon Sep 09, 2024 1:17 am

Hi Mike,

Your Phymatodes sp. from Baker County, Oregon is an interesting beast. I've never seen this species and the closest I can come to a name might be Phymatodes hardyi. There is just a single image on Bezark's site: http://bezbycids.com/byciddb/wdetails.asp?id=4571&w=n

The antennae on yours seem a bit different in the relative lengths of the antennomeres, but this could be due to your specimen and the one on Bezark being different sexes.

When I first saw this, I thought it could be a Haplidus species, but the locality is way out of range and it doesn't quite match that genus.

Very cool, whatever it is!!
Bandrow

bandrow · by bandrow » Mon Sep 09, 2024 1:02 am

MikeH wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2024 5:02 pm
bandrow wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2024 12:32 am Double-check your Enaphalodes atomarius - I believe this is actually Enaphalodes cortiphagus.
What is the best way to tell cortiphagus and atomarius apart? I had a hard time being certain on these.

Hi Mike,

Sorry for the slow response - I'm rarely on here much due to a workload that's keeping me underwater.

There are differences in the shape of the last abdominal segments for both sexes, but the character I like to use is the nature of the elytral pubescence. In E. atomarius, the elytra are covered with short, erect golden setae in addition to the patches of grayish recumbent setae that create their mottled appearance. In E. cortiphagus, the elytra lack these erect setae, instead having dense recumbent gray setae only.

Hope this helps!
Bandrow

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