daveuk wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 8:46 am Was hoping to see this species on a visit to Indiana in 2016

I saw one in Indiana in August 2019 with my late friend Danny Burk

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A mythical species ! It is now called Pterourus maraho . (or Papilio maraho ) Agehana and Pterourus genera have been synonymised in 2015 Keith Wolfe posted these pictures of Agehana and Pterourus larvae on facebook, as you can see, they are very very close, despite the geographical distance. https:/...

Welcome here ! (Also, I can't seem to upload a decent photo to my profile under the current size limits.) As avatar pictures are present on all pages in numbers, it is important to have low def pictures, otherwise pages will be long to load. But I am sure you will find a way to find a good avatar pi...

Let's stress that it is a Pre-CITES convention specimen, so this specimen is legal.

For our readers, you need a CITES II permit to import a fresh specimen of this species (very hard to get CITES II permits for Teinopalpus).

Nice !
They deserve a better drawer !

A wonderful species indeed !

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Very impressive indeed !

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Hi Kevin, I have spent two months working on that new forum, so I guess you can spend 10 seconds resizing an avatar picture. ;-) Very fast with "Paint". The new look looks new, and it's weird, why are some people's names green? The phpbb software (that we are now using) put by default mode...

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It is Amazonia. :) - So you need a Yellow Fever vaccine to enter French Guiana (+ Covid vaccines for the moment). - I hadn't any parasite issue during my trip there but there are few cases of leishmaniasis. - some mosquitoes at night, and a lot of horseflies at day (depends of seasons) Dangerous thi...

WOW !
First time I see a Teinopalpus gynandromorph !

Congrats to the photographer ! Who is he ?

You should ! French Guiana is very collector friendly with a lot of entomological lodges. People speaks English and French and it is rather safe for an Amazonian area. And you don't need any collector permit from the French Guiana side (just a custom declaration to fill online before arrival). There...

To give you a scale, this Asilidae was a monster : around 4 cm in length!

I would be happy to have an identification of the 2 species if anyone can help or know who could help.

As picture attachment is the great asset of this new forum, let's share your best insect live shot ! https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mwmuAQ8x8xM/WXED_wCe6qI/AAAAAAAABuA/kPMM7-wBdYEnwhuABtYaeZW6iug7fGj_ACPcBGAYYCw/s1600/IMG_9308.JPG I met this huge Asilidae eating an ichneumonidae on Koh Phiphi island (Th...

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