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- Mon Jun 13, 2022 6:22 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Caligo
- Replies: 3
- Views: 143
Re: Caligo
I find these remind me of moths. That said, some of my fellow Lep. Soc. of Africa members would be quick to point out that butterflies are moths.
- Mon Jun 13, 2022 6:17 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Charaxes eurialus
- Replies: 11
- Views: 330
Re: Charaxes eurialus
Also, Dave, you'll probably want to swap that J. cymodoce around with the Kallimoides rumia above it (or beside it).
- Mon Jun 13, 2022 6:14 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Charaxes eurialus
- Replies: 11
- Views: 330
Re: Charaxes eurialus
Just to address Adam's edit: The green specimens in the 5th row on the left side were formerly known as Kamilla ansorgei . In the seventh row of the same side, second from the left, is a specimen of what was formerly known as Kamilla cymodoce . Both of these species are now placed within Junonia . T...
- Wed Jun 08, 2022 5:05 am
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: P antimachus & parva
- Replies: 6
- Views: 267
Re: P antimachus & parva
One of the P. antimachus boxes at ABRI:


- Tue Jun 07, 2022 5:09 am
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Pseudacraea clarkii
- Replies: 2
- Views: 131
Re: Pseudoacrae clarkii
Just looks slightly aberrant to me. Interestingly(?), the Acraea & Telchinia it mimics are often slightly asymmetric. See the HW spots on this T. perenna perenna : https://imgur.com/LoUyL0v.jpg https://imgur.com/6sbKcqn.jpg (22/IV/2016Tumani River, near Mbogi, Djugu Territory, Ituri (1°41'55&quo...
- Tue Jun 07, 2022 4:46 am
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Papilio ophidicephalus
- Replies: 6
- Views: 218
Re: Papilio ophidicephalus
P. ophidicephalus is the southern/eastern representative of the group.
Here's P. lormieri lormieri, which is found throughout central Africa.


Here's P. lormieri lormieri, which is found throughout central Africa.


- Tue Jun 07, 2022 4:30 am
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Precis octavia sesamus (South Africa)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 254
Re: Precis Octavia sesamus(South Africa)
Here in Bunia, Ituri (DRC) Precis octavia is an uncommon butterfly. Specimens fitting ssp. sesamus are present here, but some specimens are transitional to the nominate ssp. which is found only a hundred or two km to the north. Curiously in my almost 10 years in Bunia, I have yet to see a dry season...
- Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:02 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Byblia ilithyia
- Replies: 2
- Views: 110
Re: Byblia ilithya
I should also add the ventral HWs on both species are really variable. So much so, that they can't be distinguished based on the ventral HW alone.
- Mon Jun 06, 2022 7:56 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Byblia ilithyia
- Replies: 2
- Views: 110
Re: Byblia ilithya
Byblia ilithyia (note the "i" after the "y") is known as the Spotted Joker (because of the dorsal HW discal row of spots). The other species in the genus, Byblia anvatara , the African Joker, lacks those dorsal HW spots. Here's Byblia anvatara crameri : https://imgur.com/rtmIk8Z...
- Mon Jun 06, 2022 7:04 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Papilio zalmoxis
- Replies: 25
- Views: 902
Re: Papilio zalmoxis
From another box in the ABRI collection:
A couple females:


Gyandromorph:

Deeper blue specimen (aberrant?):

A couple females:


Gyandromorph:

Deeper blue specimen (aberrant?):

- Mon Jun 06, 2022 7:01 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Papilio zalmoxis
- Replies: 25
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Re: Papilio zalmoxis
These are from the African Butterfly Research Institute (ABRI) collection:
One of the P. zalmoxis boxes:

Close up dorsal/ventral:

Close up Green specimen (natural variation as far as I'm aware):

One of the P. zalmoxis boxes:

Close up dorsal/ventral:

Close up Green specimen (natural variation as far as I'm aware):
