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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2011 2:55:46 GMT -8
this is not offered for sale very often but completes my trio of Madagascan endemics to go with grossesmithi and morondavana. Attachments:
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Post by lordpandarus on Oct 21, 2011 9:08:10 GMT -8
I've never figured out how to tell it apart from P. demodocus
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Post by starlightcriminal on Oct 21, 2011 9:26:53 GMT -8
It's very pretty. All the exotic Papilio are pretty but they look very similar to me, having a non-discerning eye for them, so they seem like a mass of black and gaudy swallowtails I can't even begin to sort out. But this one strikes me out of the myriad of colorful and metallic Papilio I have seen online. Must be P. demodocus is pretty too. I love the short tails and stippling of blue on the inner forewings, very nice. If I collected exotic Papilio this would be hard to resist for me too.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2011 9:58:11 GMT -8
all these are quite similar, grossesmithi and morondavana are larger, this species is the smallest, wingspan around 75mm.
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Post by saturniidave on Oct 21, 2011 10:32:18 GMT -8
And it has the short tails which demodocus does not.
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