A very nice comparison photo of the two dave. 👏🎉 I was very fortunate to land a pair of C. hercules back in the early 1990s. Since that time I have never again seen the species offered here. The female that I have (spread like yours) has a wing expanse of 216 mm. That is a far shy (short) of the 29...

Very nice Dave ! 🎉👍 The larger of the two is very impressive. I've not yet been able to land a good example. Over here, if people have them they may only have 1or 2 so, they generally won't part with them. I'm bound to get a good one but, I'm certain I'll have to pay substantially more now that the...

Here are my only two specimens of T agrippina
Both males (I presume) from Brazil 1985.
Shame about the broken antennae. They were in this condition when I got them.

Here are my largest C hercules & T agrippina together for comparison. Both specimens from the mid 1980s
PNG & Brazil respectively.

Euthalia anosa balina
A female & two males from Bali Indonesia

Don't have many moths in my collection but for this beautiful genus I make room.
A couple of unidentified specimens from Nepal.
Got them at an entomological show in 2011.

Two things which strike me here. The first is sadly how mounted specimens never quite fully retain the incredible beauty & vibrance of living butterflies. This lovely photograph is testament to that The second in how unobtainable this species was to collectors in general & certainly for myse...

Check out a British 60s horror film "The Blood Beast Terror"
It has a preposterous lepidoptera related plot & Peter Cushing. An enjoyable romp !!

Thanks for that Adam. Always good to have someone "in situ" to clarify the data.

Top picture from left to right: S howqua formosama pair (Taiwan) S howqua suffusa pair (Sichuan, China) Male S neumogeni(China) & male S sparta evansii(Burma) Middle picture S cambodia. All specimens from Kanchanaburi Thailand Bottom picture Top row S louisa louisa Kanchanaburi, Thailand. Bottom...

That's a very impressive series of Stichophthalma specimens, daveuk - many thanks for posting! I have only a single specimen of this genus in my collection, in storage and still papered, collected about 40 years ago. It's a Stichophthalma howqua (probably ssp. formosana). Thanks livingplanet. Have ...

I was in the locality that some of this batch were from back in 2008. Did not venture out at dusk & was only in Viet Nam for a short time so have still not seen a single Stichophthalma on the wing (did not know these species even existed back in 2008). Unsurprised hearing they do the on off disa...

Dave I'm loving the morphological variation! Keep them coming, this is an amazing thread. Here you go Chuck. More of my Vietnamese specimens with data. If my assumptions are right the last four are Stichophthalma devyatkini. As with all the other Vietnamese material it is pretty much guesswork thou...

Sticophthalma godfreyi pinratanai
Ranong,Thailand.
A pair & the underside of the female. The female of this subspecies is the largest Stichophthalma in my collection.
Data for the female is Ranong March 2001

Stichiphthalma godfreyi godfreyi
Kanchanburi, Thailand
Took these pictures in 2019.
Two females & a male. Same data for all

A great specimen. Glad you acquired it.
Better that a specimen like this be preserved for science I think.

Lovely Chris. The top picture is actually two males. The top specimen is a male C mars dohertyi from Sulawesi & the bottom specimen is a male C mars madensis from Buru. The females of both subspecies have white banded forewings. The female C mars dohertyi also has an outer chestnut band on the f...

livingplanet3 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 24, 2023 7:41 pm

Outstanding specimens! Is this a pair?
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Yes. Male top photo. Female bottom photo.

A lovely Swallowtail Chuck. Nice to see some Mexican specimens.I managed to get some specimens from Ken Thorne in Canada a few years back. Ex pupae from El Salvador. This species was available as livestock here in the U.K. a while back. Certainly as pupae & possibly as larvae. Can't remember pro...

Trehopr1 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 23, 2023 4:11 pm Dave, could that VERY chocolate-brown looking specimen be a quite (melanic) aberration of something ?

Extraordinary find ....

Here is the other specimen I got from Chuck Ianni from the same locality. No date on this one either