ckswank
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Country: USA
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Post by ckswank on May 19, 2011 22:07:48 GMT -8
Hi, everyone. I ran across this website that some of you might find useful. It's for butterfly identification south of the US. It apparently isn't finished yet, but looks promising. www.butterfliesofamerica.com/L/Neotropical.htmCharlie |
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Post by africaone on May 19, 2011 22:53:29 GMT -8
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Post by bobw on May 20, 2011 0:47:51 GMT -8
Yes, this is a really useful site, making photographs of so many types available. This saves researchers a lot of time travelling round the world's museums to find them.
It's based on a lifetime's work by Gerardo Lamas. Having worked with him I can vouch that the amount of work he's put in is incredible; many of these types were unidentified or even unknown before he managed to find them. Nobody is more knowledgeable on butterfly taxonomy and his kind advice has helped me immeasurably over the years.
Bob
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Post by nomihoudai on May 20, 2011 2:29:11 GMT -8
Yes it truly is a lifetime project, I had been talking with someone that had been on the travel together with Lamnas when both were students, and that was already over 20 years ago! I have not even been born back then...
I have not known the page and I thank you very much for posting it. The neotropics is not really my field of interest but look at all those Heliconius pictures ! Maybe I will now be able to start a Heliconius collection again as I finally may be able to identify them.
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Post by lepidofrance on May 20, 2011 4:47:50 GMT -8
  Yes, this site is very good. I suppose it is done by the same team as pages: Interactive Listing of American Butterflies Listado Interactivo de las Mariposas Americanas (From Alaska to Panama and the Caribbean) A Catalog of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada www.butterfliesofamerica.com/intro.htmThe only problem is technical: some pages are so heavy (Hesperiidae, Riodinidae) they take a long time to unload and it is difficult to circulate. One wonders why the authors did not divide these pages to make attendance easier? 
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Post by lordpandarus on May 21, 2011 18:56:50 GMT -8
I thought it was a website I already knew but it's isn't, the reference pictures are different
I guess I have lots of new pictures to look at
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Post by prillbug2 on May 22, 2011 5:26:48 GMT -8
It's very good, but unfortunately alot of the specimen photographs are very dark. They need to redo alot of them. Now, if they would do the same thing with all of the moth families from the Neotropical region, that would be a great boost.
Jeff Prill
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Post by Adam Cotton on May 22, 2011 11:05:02 GMT -8
Many of them are scans of paper prints taken by Gerardo Lamas over many years, back in the days when there was a choice of film or film to store photos ;-)
I am sure that even dark photos of type specimens are better than none. My congratulations to BoA and all involved in this important online archive.
Adam.
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Post by lordpandarus on May 22, 2011 13:28:18 GMT -8
There's lots of obscure Nymphalids I had never seen a picture of
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