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by Cabintom
Tue Feb 20, 2024 1:25 pm
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: Gyno or Just Variation?
Replies: 2
Views: 303

Re: Gyno or Just Variation?

Looks like an aberration to me.
by Cabintom
Mon Feb 12, 2024 12:16 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Charaxes fournierae
Replies: 5
Views: 672

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
by Cabintom
Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:04 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Charaxes fournierae
Replies: 5
Views: 672

Re: Charaxes fournierae

What do you mean "the latest"? Are you looking for taxonomic info? Availability? ...?
by Cabintom
Thu Feb 01, 2024 1:28 am
Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
Topic: More Uganda niceties....
Replies: 8
Views: 1038

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...
by Cabintom
Mon Jan 29, 2024 3:00 am
Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
Topic: More Uganda niceties....
Replies: 8
Views: 1038

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 ...
by Cabintom
Sun Jan 28, 2024 1:08 pm
Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
Topic: More Uganda niceties....
Replies: 8
Views: 1038

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...
by Cabintom
Sun Jan 28, 2024 1:03 pm
Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
Topic: More Uganda niceties....
Replies: 8
Views: 1038

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.
by Cabintom
Wed Jan 17, 2024 3:23 pm
Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
Topic: Moths from Bas-Uele
Replies: 3
Views: 6901

Re: Moths from Bas-Uele

Here's another one that came off the boards last month:

Heraclia aemulatrix
(I believe)
Image
by Cabintom
Sun Jan 14, 2024 2:44 am
Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
Topic: White-M Hairstreak (Parrhasius m-album)
Replies: 14
Views: 11212

Re: White-M Hairstreak (Parrhasius m-album)

mothman55 wrote: Sat Jan 13, 2024 6:24 pm I believe the program was called "EntomoLabels"
(Sorry, off-topic: This is the program I use to make my labels. Fairly simple to use & the creator has been steadily improving it.)
by Cabintom
Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:17 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Unknown Uganda Euphaedra sp.
Replies: 10
Views: 9085

Re: Unknown Uganda Euphaedra sp.

definitely E. harpalyce spatiosa
by Cabintom
Thu Jan 11, 2024 1:51 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Unknown Uganda Euphaedra sp.
Replies: 10
Views: 9085

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...
by Cabintom
Thu Jan 11, 2024 1:14 pm
Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
Topic: Morpho cypris female form cyanites
Replies: 27
Views: 27736

Re: Morpho cypris female form cyanites

Annarobertson1947 wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 2:33 am who happily donated her body to science
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.
by Cabintom
Wed Jan 10, 2024 8:11 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Unknown Uganda Acraeid
Replies: 5
Views: 3092

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...
by Cabintom
Wed Jan 10, 2024 8:06 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Unknown Uganda Euphaedra sp.
Replies: 10
Views: 9085

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.
by Cabintom
Wed Jan 10, 2024 1:01 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Unknown Uganda Acraeid
Replies: 5
Views: 3092

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...
by Cabintom
Wed Jan 10, 2024 12:50 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Unknown Uganda Euphaedra sp.
Replies: 10
Views: 9085

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).
by Cabintom
Sun Jan 07, 2024 9:17 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Unknown African Nymphalid i.d.
Replies: 4
Views: 2098

Re: Unknown African Nymphalid i.d.

subspecies grandis
by Cabintom
Tue Dec 19, 2023 11:20 am
Forum: Books, Publications and Media Reviews
Topic: New Zhang et al. genomic paper
Replies: 3
Views: 1911

Re: New Zhang et al. genomic paper

Thanks Adam! Much appreciated.
by Cabintom
Sun Dec 17, 2023 9:59 am
Forum: Books, Publications and Media Reviews
Topic: New Zhang et al. genomic paper
Replies: 3
Views: 1911

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?
by Cabintom
Fri Dec 08, 2023 2:40 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Unknown Spilomelinae from Durban, South Africa
Replies: 2
Views: 3511

Re: Unknown Spilomelinae from Durban, South Africa

Hi Steve! (sorry, I'm absolutely no help with South African moths)