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Post by cabintom on Nov 16, 2020 20:11:00 GMT -8
I probably average around 10 minutes per specimen. Though fresh specimens tend to take less time.
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Post by cabintom on Nov 13, 2020 20:38:37 GMT -8
Cabin Tom: Long time since I have seen a post from you. I assume you are still on the mission field. If you are in Africa, are you still collecting butterflies?? Yes, still in DRC. And still collecting... but in a very limited fashion. Severe insecurity in my province + Covid travel restrictions limited me to just two collecting trips since May 2019. Fortunately, both trips produced great results.
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Post by cabintom on Nov 13, 2020 11:46:19 GMT -8
Cyrestis camillus camillus (The only Afrotropical member of Cyrestinae)
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Post by cabintom on Apr 19, 2020 11:16:00 GMT -8
I'll add support to the E. ravola ID.
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Post by cabintom on Jul 10, 2019 22:19:35 GMT -8
First, the genus is Precis.
I reviewed this species at ABRI a while back. In my opinion North Kivu is ssp. silvicola, though literature suggests it would be the nominate. osborni was synonymized with the nominate by Larsen.
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Post by cabintom on Jan 11, 2019 1:21:50 GMT -8
How come the second label doesn’t say “130 m”?
He edited out the location of his house.
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Post by cabintom on Jan 7, 2019 0:01:54 GMT -8
I expect that first photo has been post-processed slightly. It's a common practice to slightly increase saturation and even colour shift to make the image "pop" a bit more. If you look at the stick closely, it seems to me that it too is a bit pinker than it ought to be.
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Post by cabintom on Dec 26, 2018 12:42:00 GMT -8
I'm surprised that it's apparently not pheromones! I have collected male Bicyclus specimens that have exhibited a distinct scent. I asked a leading expert on the genus specifically in regards to B. mollitia and he confirmed that certain species exhibit certain scents. For example, he stated "sylvicolus smells strongly of vanilla and the cell-brush contains a huge peak of pure vanillin."
If these scents aren't pheromones, I wonder what they are? and what purpose they might serve?
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Post by cabintom on Dec 24, 2018 20:08:47 GMT -8
See, my first thought was pheremones. Is this not a possibility?
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Post by cabintom on Nov 26, 2018 9:11:38 GMT -8
Euphaedra is a very very difficult group, that is desperately in need of revision. I have a few specimens that I caught myself that have remained unidentified for years.
1. Is very likely E. preussi 16. Is very similar to my specimens of E. diffusa.
I sat down twice now to try IDing these for you, and each time I'm just not certain enough to feel comfortable giving my opinion. The problem is most of these species are separated by the shape of the FW subapical band, and yet the descriptions of this feature for the various species are often similar. Furthermore, I wouldn't be surprised if some of your pairings are actually 2 different species.
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Post by cabintom on Nov 24, 2018 0:19:24 GMT -8
3 is likely Bebearia nivaria
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Post by cabintom on Oct 28, 2018 20:24:41 GMT -8
I believe the term you're looking for is "gynandromorph" and if you google that you'll find photos.
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Post by cabintom on Oct 22, 2018 5:47:37 GMT -8
I've personally collected an "intermediate" male. Not quite as suffused as the "infuscatus" form, but definitely darker than is usual. Berger's "Papillons du Zaire" indicates that "infuscatus" is an uncommon form found in both the males and females.
Keep in mind it's a mimic of Acraea species (like egina) which are often suffused in colouration as well.
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Post by cabintom on Jul 29, 2018 9:19:46 GMT -8
isn't the first more a male of Cymothoe druryi ? Is C. druryi found this far east?
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Post by cabintom on Jun 30, 2017 23:12:40 GMT -8
I'm a huge fan of seafood, but I don't quite understand why in the west people are ok with eating shrimp, which consume detritus, and objectively look much stranger (with their multitude of legs, etc.) than most edible insects (esp. locusts and ants/termites), but get queasy at the thought of eating termites. We likely wouldn't eat cockroaches because of their diet, but no one bats an eye at eating shrimp which fulfill an ecologically similar purpose.
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