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jcweir · by jcweir » Wed Dec 20, 2023 8:58 am

Hi everyone,

I'm interested in planning a collecting trip to French Guiana, particularly looking at moths. I'm especially interested in filling in knowledge gaps about the smaller (and perhaps under-recorded) Lep groups in the area...

I'd appreciate any advice on a couple of points:

1) Suggestions of potential contacts or experts with knowledge of the moths of the region, particularly the smaller ('micro') families
2) Literature refences, particularly reviews/taxonomic works on the microleps in the region
3) Suggestions of key families that are under-recorded or under-studied in the region
4) Good sites/lodges to collect at!

Thanks!

livingplanet3 · by livingplanet3 » Tue Dec 19, 2023 11:12 pm

Below - some nice photos I came across of Trogonoptera brookiana. This species, along with T. trojana, must surely be among the most distinctive looking and magnificent butterflies in the world -

Panacanthus · by Panacanthus » Tue Dec 19, 2023 4:21 pm

Loulou wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 4:22 pm Dear Panancanthus
Wow what a beautiful Insect, the phymatheus grasshopper, Nature in the Insectworld is showing amazing forms and colours. It is near to what I saw, but the orange was different and the pattern had a triangle form with a frame of green around. Can it be that the milkweed grasshopper can have digmfferent patterns and forms of pattern? Because I could only seebthe colour when it was flying.

Their patterns vary somewhat (among different species of Phymateus), and some are definitely orange, but the exact pattern you describe seems unlikely. There are plenty of other grasshoppers and insects which can also be very colorful. Hopefully one day you can get a photo to show us!

Cabintom · by Cabintom » Tue Dec 19, 2023 11:20 am

Thanks Adam! Much appreciated.

anton · by anton » Tue Dec 19, 2023 10:21 am

Having collected Morpho luna and hosting two other Mexican species in my collection, im somewhat interested in this revision.
However, my main interests are with Lucanidae therefore, im unlikely to even download this publication any time soon.
Good to know its here though

wollastoni · by wollastoni » Tue Dec 19, 2023 9:09 am

Wonderful species ! Thanks for sharing !

whatisthis · by whatisthis » Mon Dec 18, 2023 11:20 pm

boghaunter1 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 5:56 pm Try Googling "Red Velvet Mite". Lots of info online.... No danger to humans.

John K.

That's great, thanks John.

Chuck · by Chuck » Mon Dec 18, 2023 7:30 pm

For God's sake, here's the link to download. https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... E-MORPHINI

boghaunter1 · by boghaunter1 » Mon Dec 18, 2023 5:56 pm

Try Googling "Red Velvet Mite". Lots of info online.... No danger to humans.

John K.

daveuk · by daveuk » Mon Dec 18, 2023 5:49 pm

58chevy wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 2:43 pm Very nice! How do you do such a perfect spreading job on small specimens?

Thanks.It wasn't always that way 58chevy!! Had a lot of practice since

Loulou · by Loulou » Mon Dec 18, 2023 4:22 pm

Dear Panancanthus
Wow what a beautiful Insect, the phymatheus grasshopper, Nature in the Insectworld is showing amazing forms and colours. It is near to what I saw, but the orange was different and the pattern had a triangle form with a frame of green around. Can it be that the milkweed grasshopper can have digmfferent patterns and forms of pattern? Because I could only seebthe colour when it was flying.

58chevy · by 58chevy » Mon Dec 18, 2023 2:43 pm

Very nice! How do you do such a perfect spreading job on small specimens?

daveuk · by daveuk » Mon Dec 18, 2023 10:19 am

Recent additions.
Two pairs. First shown upperside & second underside.
China. With data

Panacanthus · by Panacanthus » Sun Dec 17, 2023 9:11 pm

Possibly a species of Phymateus grasshopper. Did you see orange only when it was in flight? With a Phymateus grasshopper, you would see no orange on the wings until it was either flying, or lifting its wings in preparation to fly. It is also possible it may lift its wings if threatened. Regardless, color is only visible when wings are lifted, as the color is on the hind wings which are folded underneath green forewings during rest. Phymateus grasshoppers can have bright red, orange or multicolored hind wings. Their overall body color can be green.

Could possibly have been Phymateus viridipes, the “green milkweed locust”, but I am not certain of their exact range.

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adamcotton · by adamcotton » Sun Dec 17, 2023 6:53 pm

Perhaps it's a species of winged stick insect? Sorry, I have no idea about the potential species in Kenya.

Adam.

Loulou · by Loulou » Sun Dec 17, 2023 5:46 pm

Thanks a lot livingplanet3 for your suggestion. The green is right, but the orange in a triangle pattern at the wing is missing.

whatisthis · by whatisthis » Sun Dec 17, 2023 5:39 pm

Hi All,

Recently found dozens of these little mites in our woodpile (we are in the UK)

I've checked on Google but cant discern whether it's a velvet mite, harvest mite, clover mite or something else?

Can anyone advise?

Also do they bite us humans? I'm very much hoping not

Thanks!

Chuck · by Chuck » Sun Dec 17, 2023 5:00 pm

Thanks John, that's what I'm looking for! I do hate hand editing citations, they're so boring.

livingplanet3 · by livingplanet3 » Sun Dec 17, 2023 3:05 pm

Loulou wrote: ↑Sun Dec 17, 2023 4:22 am I saw Yesterday an insect, I never saw before. I described it to the people and nobody ever saw it. That’s why I ask you as long nsects expert to help me. Thanks a lot
Description:
Place Kenya Southcoast Funzi Keys 30 kilometer from the Tanzanian Border. Near the sea fresh cutted gras. I
Length 10centimeters, legs 6centimeter long, but very fine in neongreen. Triangular wings in bright orange with a neongreen line, like frame around the orange. It looked little bit like a mantis. It flight in a jumpy way out of the gres to the next landing in the gras after circa 3-4 meters. When it flight you could see the orange triangle on the wings very well.
Does anybody know that Insect?

Perhaps a kind of katydid (bush cricket)? Did it look something like this? -

adamcotton · by adamcotton » Sun Dec 17, 2023 2:44 pm

By the way, this is not the newest offering from his team, a paper on American genomics was published a few days ago:
Genomic analysis reveals new species and subspecies of butterflies
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/taxrpt/89

Adam.

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