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Post by lepidofrance on Jun 18, 2016 1:46:23 GMT -8
Los Cedros Ecological Reserve on the western slopes of the Andes in Ecuador (Choco Forest) is a great center for biodiversity, flora or fauna (extraordinary abundance of butterflies and moths, puma, jaguar, Andean bear, howler monkeys, etc.). To learn more about the Reservation : www.lepido-france.fr/2014/01/los-cedros/reservaloscedros.org/ www.flickr.com/photos/andreaskay/sets/72157629132785818/To-day, the Los Cedros Reserve is mortally threatened by a mining concession granted by an Ecuadorian government contemptuous the protection of nature and of a site recognized by many scientists around the world as of first importance. Here is the letter (in spanish) we received yesterday from Josef DeCoux the Reserve Director : 17 de Junio 2016-Los Cedros Doctores y no tan Doctores aun Hace dos semanas el ARCOM y el Min de Minas anunciaron la consecion de practicament todo el Bosque Protector Los Cedros a una minera Canadiense llamado Cornerstone. Yo tengo una idea de como pueden uds ayudar, si tiene la voluntad y me gustaria sugerencias de como puedo proceder para revertir este mal aconsejada repuesta a la crisis economico del pais. Mi idea es solicitando que uds pudieron adañir sus buen nombres a una carta de razonamiento al presdente del la directiva de Cornerstone. A la vez si pudieron mandarme los "link" con publicaciones or justificaciones de los trabajos realizados aqui en este Bosque Protector. Estamos organizando aparte una carta similar donde los cientificos extranjeros quienes han trabajado y publicado algo de aqui pueden hacer lo mismo. Cornerstone es un fondo para inversiones Canadiense listado en la bolsa de Toronto que especula con derechos mineros repartiendo riesgos para el benefico de sus inversionistas. Tienen arto plata y inversonistas y Javier Cordova, Ministro de Minas, es muy orgulloso de haber traido este fondo al pais. Hace un semana Cornerstone firmó un convenio con ENAMI para formar una empresa publica y lo seguro es que Los Cedros esta en la mira. Hay muchos conseciones nuevos en el pais y otros areas protegidos afectados. Lo lamentable es con tan poco area del Choco Ecuatoriano intacta despues del paso de las compañias madereras por Esmeraldas y an poco control forestal en el resto, el gobierno no tiene mayor imaginacion de lo que pueda valer su biodiversidad. Gracias para su gentil atencion. Jose DeCoux Administrador Estacion Los Cedros
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Post by lepidofrance on Jan 31, 2015 2:18:36 GMT -8
Number 5 is female of Papilio chrapkowskoides or P. sosia (or nireus). Difficult to be more acurate without the upperside.
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Post by lepidofrance on Jan 30, 2015 17:50:25 GMT -8
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Post by lepidofrance on Jan 29, 2015 2:48:37 GMT -8
Zerynthia rumina in January ? The earliest individuals are given the end of February! As far I know and according the entomological literature.
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Post by lepidofrance on Jan 29, 2015 0:42:40 GMT -8
and a recent photo (2007) : M. rhetenor augustinae female :
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Post by lepidofrance on Jan 28, 2015 16:12:50 GMT -8
Here is a Morpho ( Megamede) rhetenor augustinae from Orinoco Delta (1966) :
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Post by lepidofrance on Jan 28, 2015 15:59:42 GMT -8
Here is a recent (November, 2012) photo from Morpho rhetenor hightoni Neild, 2008. The subspecies flies on the SW ridge of Maracaibo Lake, in swamps ( M. rhetenor augustinae Le Cerf, 1925, flies also in swamps and mangroves areas but in the Orinoco delta) : To learn more on the matter, see Neild, Butterflies of Venezuela.
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Cuba
Dec 19, 2014 16:09:00 GMT -8
Post by lepidofrance on Dec 19, 2014 16:09:00 GMT -8
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Post by lepidofrance on Dec 19, 2014 15:58:52 GMT -8
you still have a communist country with beauracracy and corruption. Paying off somebody to get a permit isn't the hard part, it's finding the right person to pay![/quote]
I have been in so many countries, not communists countries but actually capitalists countries, with bureaucracy and corruption ....
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Cuba
Dec 19, 2014 15:52:33 GMT -8
Post by lepidofrance on Dec 19, 2014 15:52:33 GMT -8
I stayed in Cuba so many years ago that I could not tell something interesting for the present.
Anyway, one of our Lepidopterists of France Association members use to spend half the year in Cuba and he is still collecting, without any trouble, in many places (even in the La Habana botanic garden where is flying the cuban Parides sp. )
So, send me a mail and I'll give you his mail adress for more informations !
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Post by lepidofrance on Dec 17, 2014 15:40:12 GMT -8
Dear Adam,
I would be very pleased receiving a copy of the pdf paper !
Thank you so much !
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Post by lepidofrance on Dec 17, 2014 1:17:32 GMT -8
Could be : Callicore texa maimuna (Hewitson, 1858)
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Post by lepidofrance on Dec 10, 2014 9:44:02 GMT -8
Thank you so much, Adam ! Now, I understand the matter much better !
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Post by lepidofrance on Dec 10, 2014 2:20:48 GMT -8
Adam wrote : "It is not generally normal to include the subgenus name in a genus + species combination unless you want to show that the species under consideration, while being retained in the same genus, are actually not very closely related compared to some other species."
Yes !
I choose the Morpho example because in the genus we have 30 species and about 210 subspecies (Blandin's systematic). Then, it's very useful to write the subgenus name since we have so different kinds of Morpho butterflies, not only regarding the habitus, but also (or mainly ?) about ethology and behaviour. For example :
- subgenus Iphimedeia, Lauschwartzia = canopy Morpho, flying only when sun shines. - subgenus Morpho = mainly (not all, but many) under trees flyers (and most of them : low altitude inhabitants), flying also when cloudy (even raining) weather. - Cytheritis subgenus = (not all, but most of them) : high elevation flyers (mountains) - Grasseia subgenus : very different habitus than Morpho subgenus but also flying not far from the ground inside forest paths.
Thank you Adam for your understanding of my poor english !
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Post by lepidofrance on Dec 10, 2014 2:05:01 GMT -8
"If "Morpho (Cytheritis) aega" was written as "Morpho Cytheritis aega", it would seem as though the species was "cytheritis" and the subspecies "aega", when that is not the case." Written as Morpho cytheritis aega would say that cytheritis is the species and aega the subspecies. But, written with a cap. letter for Cytheritis means correctly that Cytheritis is a subgenus name and aega the species name. Of course, it's much more clear using ( and ) to separate subgenus name and species name. Actually, my first questions was : is it true that now the ICZN no more ask for the use of [ and ] (square brackets and not curve brackets) for description date ? Until now, we have to write (same example) : Morpho ( Morpho) deidamia deidamia (HÜBNER, [1819]). Is it true that now it would be allowed to write Morpho ( Morpho) deidamia deidamia (HÜBNER, 1819) or Morpho deidamia deidamia (HÜBNER, 1819) ? Without [ and ] ? Sorry; if my english is not so clear !
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