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Post by Paul K on Nov 11, 2018 14:36:50 GMT -8
K.alicia,K. limborgii,K inachus look pretty much the same to me. Is it really sure they're different species? Very difficult to distinguish by wing pattern, must examine the genitalia to be 100% certain. |
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Post by Adam Cotton on Nov 12, 2018 1:12:13 GMT -8
Yes they are separate species, the genitalia are different, and consistently so across the range of all the species. I am sure that when a DNA analysis is performed the results will confirm they are different species. There are many cases of butterfly species that look almost identical but are actually more than one species. We only noticed that there are two species in "Graphium mandarinus" from Sichuan when we found two different DNA genotypes. After careful examination of specimens that had been analysed we were able to find morphological and genitalic characters which matched the DNA clusters, and now know how to distinguish two species which were always considered to be variations of one.
Adam.
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Post by lordpandarus on Nov 14, 2018 14:32:38 GMT -8
Before revision of the genus it would probably just be K. inachus ssp
I tend to keep the old names when there's confusion
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