That is interesting as Cameron Highlands is only about 100km south of Yala without any barrier. I wonder what is it that restrict the species to move northwards . I suspect it may either be an environmental issue or perhaps the food plant does not occur further north. Inayoshi-san asked me earlier ...

Adam Is T.brookiana still can be found in some south regions of Peninsular Thailand and if so do you know exact location. No, it has never reliably been found in the far south of Thailand. There are a few specimens with labels stating 'Yala' (the southernmost province) in Europe, according to Haugu...

I suspect this was filmed at the hot springs 7 miles up the Cameron Highlands road from Tapah, Perak, W Malaysia. Males gather there in large numbers. I vaguely remember going there in 1979.

Adam

Shame there weren't any females. Female Papilionidae don't sand/mud-puddle, and definitely not with males. I once saw a freshly emerged Atrophaneura astorion female (also in tribe Troidini) in Laos drinking at the edge of a stream very early in the morning, but well away from the urine bait I put d...

Perhaps it's a species of winged stick insect? Sorry, I have no idea about the potential species in Kenya.

Adam.

By the way, this is not the newest offering from his team, a paper on American genomics was published a few days ago:
Genomic analysis reveals new species and subspecies of butterflies
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/taxrpt/89

Adam.

Tribes and subtribes are part of the Family-group, so in the case of the new Papilionidae subtribe "Meandrusina Grishin, subtrib. n. (type genus Meandrusa F. Moore, 1888, in Papilionini Latreille, [1802])" Grishin is using the Genus-group name to form a new subtribe name in the Family-grou...

There are two basic female forms, a) black with a red band on the hindwing parallel to the abdomen and b) with a white discal patch on the hindwing but without the red band. There can be considerable variation on these two basic forms, especially in Leyte. The four females (below the male) in the th...

We have common huntsman spiders here in and around my house in Chiang Mai, similar in appearance but fully grown definitely larger than the one on the dollar bill above. They run around the house and garden at night and hunt insects, particularly cockroaches.

Adam.

Of course this is the nominate subspecies. There is considerable variation from specimens with completely dark hindwings to those with a distinct white postdiscal patch in the nominate ssp, but the majority tend to be dark. Ssp. albosyfanius mainly has a distinct white hindwing postdiscal patch. Adam.

Here is one of my boxes of ssp. rumanzovia with a variety of different female forms: rumanzovia box s.jpg Some are similar to ssp. deiphontes but they are not that ssp., which comes from N. Moluccas. If they come from the Philippines (except the small island chain SW of Mindanao) then they belong to...

I have no idea about Satyrinae genitalia, but it is worth comparing your specimen with males to see if there is presence/absence of secondary sexual wing characters such as male androconial scales/patches/tufts. If males of the same species have these but your specimen does not then it is likely to ...

Your friend's female is almost certainly the nominate subspecies, from Ceram or Ambon.

Adam.

Here is my synonymy of Papilio deiphobus : Papilio deiphobus Linnaeus, 1758 ssp. rumanzovia Eschscholtz, 1821 (TL.: Manilla) = krusensternia Eschscholtz, 1821 (TL.: Manilla) = floridor Godart, 1824 (TL.: Philippines) = emalthion (Hübner, [1824]) (TL.: not stated) = descombii Roger, 1826 (TL.: Philip...

When Pavulaan and Wright described Papilio appalachiensis in 2002, they actually designated a neotype for Papilio turnus. Is this still valid? No, a neotype designation is invalid if there is extant original type material. Pavulaan & Wright obviously did not see Honey & Scoble (2001). Adam.

A pin almost half way along each forewing costa and either side of the abdomen as well as base of forewings would be better.

Adam.

Papilio turnus was described by Linnaeus on 17 October 1771, Mantissa Plantarum Edition 2, p. 536, and is a junior subjective synonym of Papilio glaucus Linnaeus, 1758. Honey & Scoble (2001) designated the lectotype in the collection of the Linnean Society of London. A photo of this specimen is...

I have received a series of photos kindly provided by Naturalis, Leiden which are very helpful.

Adam.

They certainly look like Papilio filaprae.

Adam.

I already checked iNat last week. The associated photo appears on several different records for the same species, so I suspect that it is not the actual specimen from Simeulue.

Adam.