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Re: Rarities in Charaxes
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:17 pm
by livingplanet3
daveuk wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:59 am
About two years ago I managed to get some male specimens of Polyura posidonius from Tibet for the first time. It is a small (for the genus) but beautiful species. Probably not that rare but always considered a bit of a "holy grail". By me at least...
I have not seen a female...
Beautiful specimens!
Re: Rarities in Charaxes
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 8:34 am
by bobw
Charaxes have never really done it for me, but I've always had a soft spot for Polyura, and I think posidonius is the most spectacular of all of them!
Re: Rarities in Charaxes
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:31 pm
by daveuk
A pair of Charaxes cacuthis collected in Madagascar in 2000.
Don't think these are particularly rare but thought they were worth posting in this thread anyway. This is the only pair in my collection. Shown upperside & underside.
Re: Rarities in Charaxes
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2024 12:54 am
by livingplanet3
While on the subject of Charaxes endemic to Madagascar, we should of course make mention of the rather large and spectacular species, C. andranodorus -
Source:
https://wobam.co.uk/product/charaxes-an ... adagascar/
Source:
https://wobam.co.uk/product/charaxes-an ... adagascar/
Re: Rarities in Charaxes
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2024 1:23 pm
by wollastoni
Wonderful Charaxes from Madagascar. When I was student and collected these, I received some nice pairs of these species from Rémi Radanielama (a local collector, not 100% sure about his name, he passed away about 10/15 years ago).