Michael Büche will be in Frankfurt.
He confirmed this to me today.

You are right, it is claudina.
However, the butterfly does not correspond to the ssp. that flies at the Rio Tapajoz. But it corresponds exactly to the ssp. lugens from Peru. I am therefore 100 per cent sure that the locality is wrong.

Werner accompanied me for 45 years in my entomological life.
I will miss him ....

Does anyone in the community have a colour image of Prepona praeneste isabelae ORELLANA, 2000 that he could make available to me ?

I would be very grateful.
Manfred

His name ist ameriana15.
The name has not changed

The females of mauensis can be very different. The forewing colouring changes from yellow to red at will. There are also specimens with blue and green colouring. I have never observed such a variety of colouration in aurantiaca.

Most of the old, extremely rare and expensive books can be studied and downloaded online here: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/

Catocala mesopotamica

Catocala afghana

Catocala lesbia

Catocala martyrum

Catocala nivea

Some palaearctic species

Catocala oberthueri

Here are some illustrations by Walter Linsenmaier (1917 - 2000), which I believe have not been published in books.

Please bear with me Hewi as I have additional questions about this book that I believe you can (& perhaps other members can as well) provide answers to. Is the 9th edition the last one? If your 4th edition was published in 1870, then what year was the very 1st edition published in? A few more very ...

In addition to the lithographed 9th edition of Berge's Butterfly Book from 1910, I still own the 4th edition from 1870, in which the plates are still hand-coloured. I have attached a scan of the corresponding plates for comparison. I think the presentation of the butterflies with their food plants ...

3 - Cyanopepla alonzo

Agrias phalcidon fournierae f. augustus ♀

Agrias phalcidon phalcidon f. lemoulti ♀

Agrias aedon rodriguezi