Correct - this is Papilio palinurus

No it isn't. This is Papilio daedalus from the Philippines, a closely related but separate species. Note on the hindwing that the green band points directly at the 'eye spot' at the anal angle of the hindwing (inner edge below the tip of the abdomen), whereas ...

To conclude... during the month prior to the eclosion of this unique Swallowtail, & at a time when the butterfly would have been developing within it's chrysalis, it was continuously subjected to a host of extreme alternating temperature highs & lows. These sudden temperature shifts could ...

Melanism like this can be caused by a sudden sharp cooling of the still soft pupa within a few hours of the pre-pupal skin being shed. Note that once the pupa has hardened completely cooling has absolutely no effect. This is absolutely environmental, but it is also possible that similar aberrations ...

Papilio multicaudata grandiosus Austin and Emmel, 1998 is the subspecies from Chiapas, Guatemala and El Salvador.
Type Locality. MEXICO: Chiapas; Ochuc.
It is not a form of Papilio multicaudata multicaudata.

Adam.

I reared this adult male P. bairdii (or is it P. machaon bairdii ?) that has noticeably larger wings on its right side.

Papilio bairdii was confirmed as a separate species to P. machaon by Condamine et al . (2023) (see https://forum.insectnet.com/viewtopic.php?t=930)


Occasionally I'll net ...

An oddly interesting observation:

A "spring form" male was flying around looking for a place to puddle, on an old steel barge. He kept returning to what looked like a pile of racoon poop, but isn't- it's a random pile of 100 year old asphalt that looks like poo.

I wonder- are they using vision ...

It's a good example of rigor mortis, which passes some time after death. The muscles will have 'relaxed' which made the jaws moveable again.

Adam.

I have no idea how they got my friends' email

Is your friend an Insectnet member? It is possible the spammer just lifted the name 'InsectNet' (with a large N!) off the internet.

I have not received anything, and if other members haven't then I think the membership data has not been compromised ...

From what I can see of the male forewing underside it is NOT Papilio chrapkowskii Suffert, 1904, so it could be Papilio chrapkowskoides ('bromius') but I suspect it is Papilio interjectana Vane-Wright, 1995. However, I don't think Papilio chrapkowskoides actually reaches W Kenya. It is in Uganda and ...

Olivier,

Thank you very much for posting all the photos and narrating your adventures. I agree, Laos is a really interesting country and I would strongly encourage anyone to go there. If you want to see very many (mostly) commoner species mud-puddling along streams in lower elevation forest I ...

Papilio bromius is a junior homonym and permanently unavailable. It was declared a homonym by Koçak (1983) and replaced by the name nurettini which is now the name for the West African subspecies, since there was already an older available name, chrapkowskoides Storace, 1952 (type locality ...

When I opened the main page I found that all sections apparently had new posts, but when I opened a section I also found that all topics in the whole section apparently had new posts. At first I thought there must be another cyber-attack, but soon realised there were no spam posts. Presumably this ...

It doesn't look like Priocnemis exaltata but I am not familiar with UK wasps. Note that species names should be written with a small first letter, only genus names start with a capital.

Adam.

mokky wrote: Thu May 29, 2025 12:11 am During the monsoon, Phou Samsoum is blessed with many rare and interesting species which are univoltine however the weather is a huge headache.

I suppose that Zephyrus group of Lycaenidae must be interesting to Japanese collectors.

Adam.

wollastoni wrote: Mon May 26, 2025 5:30 pm along with my colleague Ron, who specializes in Achillidae.

I assume this is Ron L. from Switzerland, and you mean Achillides, the 'gloss Papilios'.

Adam.

Please post a photo after reading https://forum.insectnet.com/viewtopic.php?t=4 about adding photos. Basically you can upload a photo as long as it is smaller than 800kb. You will need to resize a full photo.

Adam.

I think it would be important to put Saturniidae inside a sealed container otherwise they would desiccate while in the fridge. Obviously they cannot replace any lost body water after removal from the fridge.

Adam.

Luckily this time the same 'member' made over 200 separate posts in all the forums. I was able to delete them all very quickly, unlike attacks where a bot registers many different 'members', each posting only one or two messages. I remember battling one of those for several hours in 2018 and was ...

Please post a photo, see https://forum.insectnet.com/viewtopic.php?t=4 for details about how to include photos in a post. Also include the locality where the insect was found, as that is important to identify something correctly.

You should post the request in the Insect identification section at ...

eurytides wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 12:05 pm Does it work the other way? Can 58chevy send a message and then Tfytrbl can reply to it?

That should work. I think that he can reply to PMs sent by other members.

Adam.