Chuck this is what is on the data labels for each.

P. t. straatmani Kieta, North Solomon Province, PNG

P. t. toboroi Burka Island, North Solomon Province, PNG

Looking more closely at the second male, it looks more like P. chikae based on the spatulate tails. You should check the forewing underside, in hermeli the apical and subapical areas are strongly suffused with grey scales, whereas in chikae these scales are more diffuse, except near the tornal angl...

Brahmaea moths have some of the most intricate patterns of any lep on the planet.
Here is one example.


Brahmaea tancrei Afghanistan

Papilio toboroi straatmani male PNG


Papilio toboroi toboroi female PNG

A spectacular subspecies of this butterfly.

Papilio maackii jezoensis male Japan

adamcotton wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 9:09 pm Actually if this is from West Ecuador it is a separate species to Papilio astyalus, P. anchicayaensis. Thank you for posting the photo of this interesting species.

Adam.

Thanks Adam for the information. Unfortunately the data that was on this only has Ecuador as a location.

Papilio polyctor stockleyi Thailand

Papilio astyalus anchicayaensis female Ecuador

Battus streckerianus Peru

After doing a search for something else I found that this butterfly was shown by Trehopr a while back.
My apologies for the redundency.

Parides phalaecus pair Peru

Papilio caiguanabus male Cuba


verso

Papilio aristodemus bjorndalae Turks & Caicos


verso

Papilio machaonides pair Dominican Republic

Here is a picture of the underside.

Trehopr1 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 25, 2023 12:56 am Any chance that you could measure the wing expanse
(tip - tip) in mm.
Since my larger (brown) A. mylitta specimen measured
in at 161mm. I'd like to know how they compare.

My female A. mylitta measures at 152mm. The female A. youngi measures at 190mm.
That is one big girl!

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 ...

I think that "electric" green male is an aberration. I've never seen one quite like that anywhere this side of the pond ! I think it may be a first 'spring' generation specimen. Probably it is distinctly smaller too. Adam. Adam, It is actually the same size as the other two specimens.

Is this a gynandromorph or just an abberation?

I have a lady that works for me that breeds Black Swallowtails & Monarchs to release. She has gotten quite proficient at breeding them. I told her that if she ever saw anything different to let me know. So last summer she showed me a picture of one of her recent hatches that looked different. I ...