I've dreamt several times of catching a new unknown species, most of the time big Papilio and Delias.

Welcome here Christophe.

Please try to post in English as most of our users don't speak French.

Jean-Marc is one of the best guide to go to FG, he knows the place so well ! I discovered French Guiana thanks to him too. I hope you had great time there. Catching a female Morpho in FG is a real feat ! During my trip in FG with Jean-Marc in 2021, I saw only one female for about 1000 male, it was a...

Thank you Bob and Adam. If I understand correctly, it's the additional letter "e" (between maria and mariae ) that prevents Henk from making this change. I will correct the Delias website. Should we publish that correction in a future publication or is it non necessary ? I can easily add t...

You are welcome.
I always like these kinds of label investigations !

The future of our hobby is obviously at risk for various reasons, as well explained by Chuck in this topic. This said, it is our collective mission to make it last as long as possible, to make it fun as long as possible, to make it scientifically useful as long as possible. We are a small but great ...

In 1996, my late friend Henk van Mastrigt renamed Delias campbelli maria Toxopeus, 1937, in Delias campbelli cyclops to avoid confusion with Delias mariae Joicey & Talbot, 1916. Confusion did happen as Roepke placed Delias mariae as a ssp. of Delias campbelli . So it was a good idea to rename De...

Not sure to fully agree with you on that Chuck. Yes, the CITES protection of common birdwings is ridiculous. This said, we are not talking of one collector here caught with one birdwing in his collection... We are talking of a SELLER who knows the law and decides to not respect it : - putting at ris...

What a ridiculous behavior from Charles Limmer.
This kind of behaviors give a very bad image to all insect collectors even those who respect the rules.

1. There is also a forest of "ComeFroide" in Occitanie : https://www.commune-mairie.fr/foret/foret-domaniale-de-comefroide-picaussel-F15391Y/ 2. agree with Manfred 3. When you see a number like "26" in a French label, it must be a French departement. In this case, it is "Drô...

Indeed !
Lost in translation again

rubemon wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 3:19 am Thank goodness! Are they harmless to my home's structure, or garden?

Yes ... but your pool is harmful to them...

Great news. Let us know as the ALF is working on a list of FG butterflies.
We have just published a new list, I will check if other Damas species are listed.

Check also "Papillons de Guyane" website : http://papillons-de-guyane.fr/papillons ... =19&alt=19
Tons of Hesperiidae there.

And for French Guyana material, I would double-check with Paris MNHN, as they have tons of material from there.

Indeed.
Sekou Touré said : "We prefer poverty in freedom to opulence in slavery"... it seems, they have poverty and economic slavery...

What happens in Mayotte vs Comoro is a sad but meaningful example.

These hybrids have been showing up on EBAY, gotta admit they are beautiful, and so I bought this one.Screenshot 2023-09-07 at 4.26.30 PM.png https://forum.insectnet.com/download/file.php?id=2903 For info, this wonderful beast is a man-produced hybrid between Agrias claudina lugens x Agrias hewitson...

Indeed several people see praeneste as an Agrias. It is the only one who makes natural hybrids with Agrias in the wild (« sarumani »).

and of course, there would be several subgenera (or genera depending how you split them). As explained by Willmott

John : never heard about subgenus ? ;) All Prepona are not Agrias , but Agrias are Prepona . + there are some clear morphological, behaviour and evolutionnary differences between both subgenera as recognized in the Synonymisation paper. Morphological differences : obvious, that's why they have long ...

Yes, these hybrids are now mass-produced in Peruvian farms and now cause some issue to people studying Agrias . - Some "new" taxa are in fact "farmed hybrids" or "farmed forms : a recent example is Agrias hewitsonius elata , Séraphin 2016 : https://agrias-butterflies.com/agr...