Memphis laura rosea

[daveuk]

Consul excellens (http://insecta.pro/taxonomy/53940) is a species of Anaeini that was formerly quite scarce in collections, but has become much more available and affordable in recent years due to captive rearing -

Live specimens have even been featured in some US butterfly exhibits -

This only seems to be true of the nominate subspecies, however, as ssp. genini still commands high prices -

From memory my nominate pair were still quite expensive about six years ago. Did have a friend in Scotland who had pupae of this species from Statford on Avon Buttetfly farm a few years back. Apparently the adults which emerged were either very small &/or crippled