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Post by cabintom on Apr 3, 2022 9:46:23 GMT -8
Awesome! Thanks. Those forelegs are something else!
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Post by cabintom on Apr 3, 2022 1:02:56 GMT -8
These aren't my photos, which were taken by iNaturalist user dalempijevic1, but it's such a strange alien looking thing that I've got to know if anyone here has an idea what we're looking at.
The original post can be found here.
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Post by cabintom on Mar 17, 2022 7:45:53 GMT -8
These are definitely not all C. boueti! For comparison, here's a C. boueti boueti female:
I'm inclined to believe the 2 smaller specimens are Charaxes (Eriboea) taverniersi.
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Post by cabintom on Jan 3, 2022 1:01:33 GMT -8
I anticipate that anyone into taxonomy will appreciate this:
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Post by cabintom on Nov 21, 2021 1:37:11 GMT -8
I aim for a 50/50 split with how I set my specimens. When you're dealing with as many species as we have out here, it's really helpful to be able to see all of the subtle differences between species, and you need to see ventral & dorsal surfaces to do that.
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Post by cabintom on Nov 4, 2021 21:56:16 GMT -8
Any word on how the Papilio nireus group is treated? In other words, is there new research being published on the group or is it just a restating of what is "known"?
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Post by cabintom on Oct 10, 2021 21:32:03 GMT -8
FYI "Out-of-Africa again: A phylogenetic hypothesis of the genus Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based on five gene regions" (Aduse-Poku et al. 2009) places Polyura within Charaxes as a sub-genera.
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Post by cabintom on Aug 11, 2021 7:59:08 GMT -8
Have you got photos to share?
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Post by cabintom on Jul 31, 2021 11:22:46 GMT -8
Interesting. Thanks for sharing your perspective John!
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Post by cabintom on Jul 30, 2021 7:31:37 GMT -8
I can go either way on this one, but my tendency is to view evolutionary lineages as species.
Meaning that you'd view all subspecies as full species?
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Post by cabintom on Jul 27, 2021 4:18:38 GMT -8
I’m in the process of writing a paper that says- even though the male and female genitalia of these two bugs are identical, and for the last 100 years people never questions the species status of the two populations, barcodes consistently separate the populations (but with ~0.5% difference – so very low) and using the subtle wing patterns differences that I’ve discovered, I can visually separate them. Therefore, these two bugs, one in western Mexico, the other in the east and south through Costa Rica, are different species. As long as I state my rational (and it holds up to peer review) – it’s my call. So if I can do it - pretty much anyone can... john
Out of curiosity, why have you decided to separate the two as species and not subspecies? Or should I just wait for the paper?
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Post by cabintom on Jun 16, 2021 19:38:46 GMT -8
It looks like Amauris crawshayi oscarus, but with a white HW patch which is also reduced in size... there is a Cameroonian ssp. of crawshayi, but I don't have any images of it with which to compare.
Do you have a photo of the ventral surface?
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Post by cabintom on Nov 25, 2020 3:31:30 GMT -8
I doubt they're the same species, but I'm not sure what the other one would be.
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Post by cabintom on Nov 24, 2020 11:19:07 GMT -8
Euriphene saphirina saphirina
It's the most common member of the genus here in the Ituri forest.
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Post by cabintom on Nov 19, 2020 6:39:01 GMT -8
Looks like the female is trying to be a Monarch.
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