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- Tue Feb 20, 2024 1:25 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Gyno or Just Variation?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 519
Re: Gyno or Just Variation?
Looks like an aberration to me.
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 12:16 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Charaxes fournierae
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1041
Re: Charaxes fournierae
Ok. Glad you found the info.
LepSoc Africa has kept a fairly up to date encyclopaedia which is my first stop for taxonomic questions regarding African species: https://metamorphosis.org.za/?p=articles&s=List&pt=166
LepSoc Africa has kept a fairly up to date encyclopaedia which is my first stop for taxonomic questions regarding African species: https://metamorphosis.org.za/?p=articles&s=List&pt=166
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:04 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Charaxes fournierae
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1041
Re: Charaxes fournierae
What do you mean "the latest"? Are you looking for taxonomic info? Availability? ...?
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 1:28 am
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: More Uganda niceties....
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1328
Re: More Uganda niceties....
Also, a hearty thank you goes out to Cabintom for his expertise in African butterflies and in any corrections which he may see fit to make. :) A note on Appias sylvia ugandensis from the Afrotropical Butterflies Encyclopaedia : Populations of Appias sylvia occurring in western Kenya, Uganda and nor...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 3:00 am
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: More Uganda niceties....
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1328
Re: More Uganda niceties....
Was wondering, if the varungas mountain range runs through Uganda (where the mountain gorillas live); then wouldn't this be a case of endemism where one would find some specific endemic species unique to only that country ? Virunga National Park is in DRC and has the western slopes of the Rwenzori ...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 1:08 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: More Uganda niceties....
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1328
Re: More Uganda niceties....
Each and every species seems so diffrent from the next (or previous one) that I have to say that Uganda surely offers ONE of the MOST diverse fauna in all of Africa. Uganda is decent for butterfly diversity. It features a good variety of different biotopes but lacks zones of endemism which can be f...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 1:03 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: More Uganda niceties....
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1328
Re: More Uganda niceties....
Your unidentified specimen is Belenois solilucis. Flip it over, the base of the HWs should have very little to no orange, which would confirm it as ssp. loveni.
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 3:23 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Moths from Bas-Uele
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7452
Re: Moths from Bas-Uele
Here's another one that came off the boards last month:
Heraclia aemulatrix (I believe)
Heraclia aemulatrix (I believe)
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 2:44 am
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: White-M Hairstreak (Parrhasius m-album)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12269
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:17 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Unknown Uganda Euphaedra sp.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10002
Re: Unknown Uganda Euphaedra sp.
definitely E. harpalyce spatiosa
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 1:51 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Unknown Uganda Euphaedra sp.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10002
Re: Unknown Uganda Euphaedra sp.
Sources added below the images. Hmm... I should have recognized the female harpalyce as my own! The male from the Field Museum is almost certainly misidentified. It's a typical E. harpalyce spatiosa male. In losinga , the ventral HW features a better developed/more contrasted and narrower white dis...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 1:14 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Morpho cypris female form cyanites
- Replies: 27
- Views: 30169
Re: Morpho cypris female form cyanites
I think Chuck's point is that this is not "science" (e.g. It would be misleading if someone were to dissect the specimen believing the abdomen was original).
It's aesthetically nicer for a personal collection though.
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 8:11 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Unknown Uganda Acraeid
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3498
Re: Unknown Uganda Acraeid
You have had a measure of good fortune landing so many different ones ! Well, they're fairly common where found... and somewhat frustrating. They're such good mimics (flight patterns and everything) that it's often the case I think I've got a "new-to-me" Bematistes in the net, only to fin...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 8:06 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Unknown Uganda Euphaedra sp.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10002
Re: Unknown Uganda Euphaedra sp.
Trehopr, can you post the ventral surface of your specimen?
livingplanet, what's the source of your images? (Do you have the data for the specimens?) Quite possible I'm wrong, but my gut says your top image is a male harpalyce, while the bottom is definitely a female harpalyce.
livingplanet, what's the source of your images? (Do you have the data for the specimens?) Quite possible I'm wrong, but my gut says your top image is a male harpalyce, while the bottom is definitely a female harpalyce.
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 1:01 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Unknown Uganda Acraeid
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3498
Re: Unknown Uganda Acraeid
In my experience, this is the most common form of P. eurytus (mimicking the Bematistes epaea complex). Other forms (each mimicking a different Bematistes species) include: https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/341729773/original.jpg https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/phot...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 12:50 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Unknown Uganda Euphaedra sp.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10002
Re: Unknown Uganda Euphaedra sp.
Looks like E. harpalyce to me... the FW subapical band comes much nearer to the margin in E. losinga (furthermore, it doesn't seem that losinga has been recorded from Uganda).
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 9:17 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Unknown African Nymphalid i.d.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2424
Re: Unknown African Nymphalid i.d.
subspecies grandis
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 11:20 am
- Forum: Books, Publications and Media Reviews
- Topic: New Zhang et al. genomic paper
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2200
Re: New Zhang et al. genomic paper
Thanks Adam! Much appreciated.
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 9:59 am
- Forum: Books, Publications and Media Reviews
- Topic: New Zhang et al. genomic paper
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2200
New Zhang et al. genomic paper
Here's a new paper from the Zhang/Grishin group which creates a lot of sub-tribes/sub-genera: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/taxrpt/88/
Am I correct in understanding that, per the code (article 36), Grishin is incorrect in assuming authorship for many of these sub-tribes?
Am I correct in understanding that, per the code (article 36), Grishin is incorrect in assuming authorship for many of these sub-tribes?
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 2:40 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Unknown Spilomelinae from Durban, South Africa
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3722
Re: Unknown Spilomelinae from Durban, South Africa
Hi Steve! (sorry, I'm absolutely no help with South African moths)