wollastoni wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2023 10:47 am
Trehopr1 < the "strange" Agrias you see on the market are not aberrations or man-made aberration. They are man-made hybrids from the Peruvian Agrias farms.
I highly recommend the new book of Philippe Floquet who illustrates all Agrias natural forms and all know Agrias hybrids :
https://marketplace.insectnet.com/item/ ... embre-2023
Interesting. With so many potential crosses, the possibilities are almost endless.
I wonder if it will go the way of freshwater Amazon Anglelfish (
Scalare)- so much crossing and thousands of generations later, the standard fish is a sad comparison to the wild fish; oddball morphs have come and gone, some because the resulting crosses produced fish that had too many problems. Now, the real enthusiasts are after what was imported 50 years ago- wild caught fish. I see this too in
Papilio ulysses and other flashy species that have been bred on farms now for 30 years: generic, look-alike specimens that don't have the size nor variation of the wild butterflies.