Thanks for the correction. Also the wonderful pictures of yet more of your beautiful specimens. What a fantastic collection you have

You have opened up a minefield with this genus! The genus certainly lives up to its name. This box contains specimens recently off the setting boards before starting to be sorted and identified. This genus is very complex. DSC00459.JPG A wonderful drawer. Good luck with sorting. Are these self coll...

Pseudacarea semire
Male from Cameroun
Female recto & verso Uganda

Don't have that many examples of this genus in my collection. Have started this thread to see if there are members of the forum who may have more & would like to share pictures of their specimens on here Pair of Pseudacraea boisduvali. Uganda Two male Pseudacraea boisduvali trimenii. Tanzania Ma...

mcheki wrote: ↑Sat Sep 03, 2022 3:04 pm I hope this drawer helps to clarify the point mentioned by Cabintom

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It does & that's an incredible drawer!!.

More pictures please !!

Thanks again for help with identification. What a lovely but sometimes confusing genus.

Here in Thailand we have genus Mycalesis which looks rather similar. Some species have a dry season form with small or vestigial eye spots and large spots similar to the bottom photo above in the wet season form (July-September). Adam. Have collected Mycalesis in Queensland Australia. Think all my ...

A female I reared from ova.
Unnamed abberation.

A butterfly that has significantly increased its range & in numbers here in the U.K. over the past 30 years.
A typical female verso
abb. lanceolata (with pronounced eye spots) female verso
abb. arete (with reduced eyespots) pair verso

I have quite a few males & a couple of females from Uganda which are similar to the one in your photograph.
This male from Kenya is more richly coloured than my South African & Ugandan specimens. Also slightly more rounder in wing shape.

Belenois aurota(?)
Uganda

Belenois subeida sylvander
Male. Uganda

Three that I have not positively identified.
All Uganda

The Vine Leaf Vagrant.
Pair of subspecies dilatata from Tanzania. Recto & vero.
Verso pair from Uganda.

Pair from South Africa. Recto & verso
Previously Eronia leda

Pair. Recto & verso. South Africa.
Previously Eronia leda

Wonderful collection. Beautifully curated

Correction. I posted a picture of these two Colotis aurigineus earlier in this thread as two males from Tanzania. They are in fact a pair. The one shown verso is a female. As you can see from the data they come from Malawi & not Tanzania as first stated.

The only photo I have of one of my males. I got a couple of pairs from Ken Thorne in Canada a while back.