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- Sat Apr 27, 2024 10:01 pm
- Forum: Technical Questions or Issues
- Topic: resource limit reached
- Replies: 3
- Views: 22
Re: resource limit reached
I check Insectnet several times daily and strangely this evening Thai time the home page was unusually sluggish loading, first giving this error but loaded on refresh. When it did load correctly I tried to open the sections with new posts, but each gave me this error. When I have had this problem be...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:53 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Thoughts on NABA?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 235
Re: Thoughts on NABA?
One major problem with "butterfly watching", whether it be by NABA members or unaffiliated individuals, is that many species cannot reliably be identified from photos alone, some need at least examination of genitalia for accurate identification. Recently a colleague and I were asked to re...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:25 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Using absolutes: always, never
- Replies: 8
- Views: 270
Re: Using absolutes: always, never
You could state 'very rarely' to indicate less often than 'rarely', or if you have only seen a single specimen with these blue scales you could state 'blue scales were present on the forewing of a single individual among xxx specimens examined'.
Adam.
Adam.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:57 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: I can't find my #@%*& type specimens!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 108
Re: I can't find my #@%*& type specimens!
Presumably you put the drawer somewhere easy to access, and have just forgotten where you put it.
Hopefully you will find it soon.
Adam.
Hopefully you will find it soon.
Adam.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:34 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Clothes moths infestation — Tineola Bisselliella and Monopis Crocicapitella
- Replies: 11
- Views: 154
Re: Clothes moths infestation — Tineola Bisselliella and Monopis Crocicapitella
I found this post strange, but I'm not sure it's AI ... wouldn't AI know that species names are spelt with a first small letter, and only genus names with a capital?
Adam.
Adam.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:34 pm
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: Collecting in Vietnam
- Replies: 17
- Views: 626
Re: Collecting in Vietnam
I don't know if the US law has changed in the past 17 years.
Adam.
Adam.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:31 pm
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: Collecting in Vietnam
- Replies: 17
- Views: 626
Re: Collecting in Vietnam
A US visitor once told me that 'according to the law' dead insects for personal use can be brought into the US in accompanied luggage. Possibly the owner needs to file a 3-177 after arrival home. Apparently the law for luggage is different to parcels, according to the visitor.
Adam.
Adam.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:01 pm
- Forum: Books, Publications and Media Reviews
- Topic: 2022 new ssp of P. bianor
- Replies: 0
- Views: 30
2022 new ssp of P. bianor
The October 2022 description of a new subspecies of Papilio bianor [sic] from Kerama Islands, Okinawa, Japan, has just come to my attention since it was published in Gekkan-Mushi, a hard to obtain journal mainly covering beetles. The citation is: Hitoshi Arita & Yasushi Sorimachi 2022. Descripti...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:38 am
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Specimen locale - Madagascar
- Replies: 3
- Views: 122
Re: Specimen locale - Madagascar
When I typed 'Mortmanga, Madagascar' into the Google Maps search box and clicked search it sent me to Moramanga.
The area ~20km+ west of Moramanga town is actually a well known butterfly locality.
Adam.
The area ~20km+ west of Moramanga town is actually a well known butterfly locality.
Adam.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:12 am
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Specimen locale - Madagascar
- Replies: 3
- Views: 122
Re: Specimen locale - Madagascar
This should be Moramanga, half way between Antananarivo and the East Coast.
Adam.
PS. Google Maps is often very useful
Adam.
PS. Google Maps is often very useful
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:56 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Global travel collecting
- Replies: 33
- Views: 783
Re: Global travel collecting
PS. Tobacco and alcohol are both useful in entomology, but personally I do not imbibe either. At the same time, I believe everyone is free to choose what they want to do.
Adam.
Adam.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Global travel collecting
- Replies: 33
- Views: 783
Re: Global travel collecting
Moderator's WARNING:
Smoking is bad for the health.
Just in case anyone reading this thinks that Insectnet promotes unhealthy habits.
Mind you, the smoke helps protect specimens from pest infestations!
Adam.
Smoking is bad for the health.
Just in case anyone reading this thinks that Insectnet promotes unhealthy habits.
Mind you, the smoke helps protect specimens from pest infestations!
Adam.
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 4:04 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Agrias butterflies
- Replies: 145
- Views: 12439
Re: Agrias butterflies
As recommended by Chuck, I moved all the posts below this one to a new topic called Global travel collecting at:
viewtopic.php?t=1554
Please continue that thread there rather than here, so posts about Agrias can continue in this thread.
Adam.
viewtopic.php?t=1554
Please continue that thread there rather than here, so posts about Agrias can continue in this thread.
Adam.
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:55 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Global travel collecting
- Replies: 33
- Views: 783
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 1:11 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Agrias butterflies
- Replies: 145
- Views: 12439
Re: Agrias butterflies
Ortiz-Acevedo E & Willmott KR 2013. Molecular systematics of the butterflies tribe Preponini (Nymphalidae: Charaxinae). Systematic Entomology 38(2). http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/syen.12008. A subsequent paper is available to download here https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320658979_Using_Mol...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:14 pm
- Forum: Announcements & News
- Topic: RIP Chuck Kondor
- Replies: 7
- Views: 535
Re: RIP Chuck Kondor
Sad news reverberates around the world.
RIP
Adam.
RIP
Adam.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:45 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Rarities in Charaxes
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2224
Re: Rarities in Charaxes
The reason Amphion floridensis is not called nessus is because Sphinx nessus Cramer, 1777 is a junior homonym of the Asian Sphinx nessus Drury, 1773 which is currently known as Theretra nessus (Drury, 1773).
Adam.
Adam.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:53 am
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Rarities in Charaxes
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2224
Re: Rarities in Charaxes
It is possible he was unable to obtain any samples of lydiae for DNA analysis, or perhaps it was at that time included within a larger species group. It is worth noting that Aduse-Poku et al. (2009) only included two species of Polyura and 3 Oriental Charaxes species, so they did not include all spe...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Rarities in Charaxes
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2224
Re: Rarities in Charaxes
#1 : you have to follow the latest publication. So in this case Bouyer 2023. (We now have scientific techniques like DNA analysis we didn't have in 2009). Actually both the 2009 and 2023 classifications are based on DNA analysis to build a tree. Trees have been built from the results of DNA analysi...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:44 am
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Rarities in Charaxes
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2224
Re: Rarities in Charaxes
There are 2 important rules in taxonomy I am not sure I agree with these 'rules' exactly ;) , particularly in relation to generic classification. Separation of two or more groups into two or more genera is basically subjective as long as each genus is monophyletic (all species in the genus are deri...