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Post by wollastoni on Jun 9, 2013 10:05:25 GMT -8
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Post by wollastoni on Jun 9, 2013 6:57:38 GMT -8
Hi friends, Just back from a fantastic week in Luberon. Great collecting trips everyday in the small local mountains (between 600m and 1200m altitude) I had 2 main objectives : - finding Polyommatus aberrations : I found one rare antistriata aberration of Polyommatus bellargus male. - finding Polyommatus polonus : I found 3 males of bellargus with black spots. Currently on board, I will send pictures to a specialist to know what they are. (Claude, prepare some ketchup to eat your shoes ! ) Also find some blue forms (like ceronus, semiceronus) of bellargus females, and blue icarus females. I also met some wonderful leps like Zerynthia rumina rumina, Euphydrias aurinia provincialis, Lycaena alciphron gordius... It was too early to see Papilio alexanor or Parnassius apollo venaissinus. I will post pictures once the specimens will be out of board. Cheers
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Post by wollastoni on Jun 7, 2013 8:07:07 GMT -8
It´s indeed a shame.
Adam Cotton has some contacts there, he may be able to help you.
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Post by wollastoni on May 28, 2013 23:33:30 GMT -8
Jens < as in a collection, a butterfly picture without collecting data on a forum has no value... on French forums, it's forbidden to post pictures without data.
I am not asking for precise locality, just to know from which region... just to learn...
+ nobody would be able to "extinct" a species... especially for a nocturnal moth...
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Post by wollastoni on May 28, 2013 7:35:33 GMT -8
Wonderful ! Where do they come from ?
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Post by wollastoni on May 28, 2013 7:34:32 GMT -8
dynastor < c'est du second degré. Comme si je disais que je n'étais pas complètement ignare en papillons...
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Post by wollastoni on May 28, 2013 6:06:51 GMT -8
dynastor < I guess you didn't understand Jean-Marc correctly. He's the one explaining here that they are very educated and clever in this lodge...
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Post by wollastoni on May 28, 2013 2:17:47 GMT -8
P. blumei is a stunning lep.
I caught some in Puncak Palopo, Sulawesi, one of the most beautiful lep I have seen (with C. imperatrix and P. ulysses maybe).
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Post by wollastoni on May 25, 2013 23:29:10 GMT -8
It depends of species Mark. For www.delias-butterflies.com, I have pictures of set specimens for about 1000 sp/ssp but only 50 live pictures. This is due to the fact that Delias often fly very high in the canopy. I guess rare Agrias are very rare in live pictures too. About the species you are quoting, I guess they are rare on the market because there are no local collectors where they live.
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Post by wollastoni on May 21, 2013 5:19:45 GMT -8
Cool !
Keep us informed!
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Post by wollastoni on May 20, 2013 11:15:23 GMT -8
pips < your top right specimen in the picture with the 4 coridon is the beautiful "form arcuata".
In this great article, authors explain that polonus emerge in early June (like bellargus).
Les hybrides entre les Polyommatus (Lysandra) de France (polonus : bellargus x coridon et petri : bellargus x hispanus) (Lepidoptera : Lycaenidae) (Yvan DIRINGER et Christian CASTELAIN)
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Post by wollastoni on May 20, 2013 7:35:38 GMT -8
From what I have read polonus flies in june. Look like coridon to me.
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Post by wollastoni on May 16, 2013 7:14:06 GMT -8
For all countries, writing fake content descriptions can be very dangerous for the receiver. People should never do that.
I always write : "Dried butterflies for scientific study. No commercial value. No protected species" and I never had any problems with any customs. They sometimes inspected my parcels but always carefully with no damage.
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Post by wollastoni on May 16, 2013 6:51:31 GMT -8
Yes, fascinating !
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Post by wollastoni on May 16, 2013 0:11:14 GMT -8
Quintin, you should be able to "answer" to her negative feedback on ebay.
Be careful with your wordings. I am not sure a woman with thousands of positive feedbacks from hundreds of ebay sellers deserves the terms "evil wicked witch" " eternity in hell" for a different opinion on a A1 grading of a 30 USD lep.
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