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Doxocopa zunilda female forms from Peru & Brazil
Doxocopa laurentia pair from Brazil
Doxocopa cherubina male from Peru

Doxocopa laure. Mexico. Pair recto & verso & male showing purple reflections

daveuk wrote: Fri Dec 09, 2022 10:00 am Doxocopa zunilda female forms from Peru & Brazil
Doxocopa laurentia pair from Brazil
Doxocopa cherubina male from Peru...

Very nice! Here's a photo of D. cyane, commonly known as the Mexican emperor (although its range extends as far south as Argentina) -


https://www.flickr.com/photos/76033499@N00/15680390838/

daveuk wrote: Fri Dec 09, 2022 2:40 pm Doxocopa laure. Mexico. Pair recto & verso & male showing purple reflections...

This species is occasionally seen in far southern TX -

https://bugguide.net/node/view/31902

livingplanet3 wrote: Fri Dec 09, 2022 11:10 pm

daveuk wrote: Fri Dec 09, 2022 10:00 am Doxocopa zunilda female forms from Peru & Brazil
Doxocopa laurentia pair from Brazil
Doxocopa cherubina male from Peru...

Very nice! Here's a photo of D. cyane, commonly known as the Mexican emperor (although its range extends as far south as Argentina) -


https://www.flickr.com/photos/76033499@N00/15680390838/

Sorry not worked out how to do these "quotes" properly. That's a lovely picture of D cyane. Also have that in my collection. Your photo shows off well one of the more beautiful characteristics of this genus. The wonderful jade green proboscis. Couple of pictures I took with my phone of a pristine D agathina vacuna feeding from sweat on my hand at Iguazu falls, Misiones, Argentina in August 2018.

Three old specimens dating from the 1980's of Doxocopa lavinia. Top two pictures are form ornata from Peru & Ecuador & the bottom is form chlorotaenia from Peru