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Post by cyane on May 11, 2014 17:15:41 GMT -8
Hi Ash, no I dont know of any other golden euphorion, in fact I didnt know Sankowsky had bred them until I read your thread. I do know that some of John Olives "halfway" pupae ended up with a breeder in Northern NSW. The resulting adults were crossed with richmondia. I obtained 2 of these hybrid pupae (being told they were richmondia !) They took a very long time to emerge and were barely able to expand their wings. I've attached pics of the male golden euphorion "halfway" x normal richmondia hybrid. Its an old pic, I no longer have the specimen. I've also attached more pics of the golden euphorion that John Olive sent me and a pic of the most golden richmondia that I ever bred. I was breeding richmondia commercially in the 1990s.
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Post by cyane on May 11, 2014 15:47:01 GMT -8
When I was in the Solomons in 2003 I met a butterfly dealer whose hometown was Makira, San Cristobal. He told me that he had introduced urvillianus to the Makira area in the hope of obtaining allottei. He told me that the introduction was successful. I dont know if your urvillianus is really from Cristobal though. Some Solomons dealers are very unreliable. Also genuine mistakes can be made: for instance a farmer came to my hotel room in Honiara with 10 pair of O victoriae. He told me he was from Maramaseke. As I always did I got out my maps and asked him to show me where his village was. Sure enough his village was on Maramaseke, but then he pointed to the mainland of Malaita, just across the channel from Maramaseke and said "but my farm is here". So now I have 10 pairs of victoriae from the extreme southern end of Malaita which may be enough to show a cline from the North of Malaita through to Maramaseke. The only problem is I havent set them because I dont have the space ! David Hall
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Post by cyane on May 1, 2014 16:20:28 GMT -8
Here is a pic of a specimen bred by John Olive when he was breeding towards the all gold euphorion. As you can see the date is 24-7-93. I have also included pics of postcards that were produced at that time (taken by A. Perera) that show the live adults. David Hall. Attachment DeletedAttachment DeletedAttachment Deleted
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Post by cyane on Mar 15, 2014 5:25:36 GMT -8
Lining the envelopes with tissue paper (toilet paper, paper towel etc) stops the specimen sliding about in the envelope and its tails are prevented from hitting the folded edge of the envelope. I believe this sliding in the envelope is the main cause of broken tails, assuming that the rest of the packaging is ok, eg the envelopes have to be packed quite tightly so that they themselves do not slide about and hit the edges of the container. David Hall.
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Post by cyane on Mar 5, 2014 15:54:11 GMT -8
"Conservation of Birdwing Butterflies" Edited by Don Sands and Sue Scott. A very interesting little book with many photos available for free download at www.richmondbirdwing.org.au/conservationofbirdwingsbook.phpIt includes a chapter on the rediscovery of O paradisea paradisea near Madang in 1990. Chapters : Cover and Introductory pages Table of Contents Acknowledgements Editorial - Don Sands and Sue Scott Birdwing Butterfly Conservation Does it have Wider Values? - Tim New Food Plants of the Birdwing Larvae - Don Sands School and Community Participation in the Richmond Birdwing Butterfly Conservation Project - Sue Scott The Paradise Birdwing (Ornitoptera paradisea Staudinger), with Special Reference to the Nominotypical Subspecies from the Madang Province of Papua New Guinea - Brian Fletcher The Conservation Status of Birdwing Butterflies in Taiwan - Yaw-long Yang and Huai-Sheng Fang The Richmond Birdwing Butterfly (Ornithoptera richmondia[Gray]): Its Natural History and Progress Towards REcovery - Don Sands and Sue Scott Part A The Richmond Birdwing Butterfly (Ornithoptera richmondia[Gray]): Its Natural History and Progress Towards REcovery - Don Sands and Sue Scott Part B Index of scientific names Well worth printing out (but it would probably take all the ink in your printer because of the numerous colour pics) Hint; for easier viewing, right click on a page and click "rotate counterclockwise" Attachments:
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Post by cyane on Feb 28, 2014 13:35:10 GMT -8
As Peter said, miokensis is very variable. I have seen a series of netted specimens that varied from almost as green as poseidon to as blue as urvillianus. David Hall
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Post by cyane on Feb 12, 2014 16:33:46 GMT -8
I've collected in mangroves in both North and South Queensland, Australia. Some beautiful butterflies can be found there including Hypochrysops apelles, H epicuris, H narcissus, Acrodipsas illidgei, Hypolycaena phorbas etc. I've reared all of these mentioned. Mangroves are hot, humid, smelly and difficult to get around because of the thick mud, but for this butterfly collector well worth it. At Yule Point near Cairns in North Queensland I collected adults and found larvae and pupae of H apelles and H narcissus. Narcissus were flying in numbers, often four or five specimens following each other in a line, swirling around, flashing in and out of the rays of sunlight. Here are pics of ex pupa Hypochrysops narcissus, H apelles and Acrodipsas illidgei. David Hall.
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Post by cyane on Aug 23, 2013 16:40:54 GMT -8
The IP from Moldova is indeed a proxy server. You can simply go to 178.175.139.54 and you will see the website of a company that provides access to proxy servers to hide your real IP. You can also go one step further and search the appropriate internet registry data base to find details of who an IP is registered to. In Europe it's R.I.P.E ("Reseaux IP Europeens"). There is also APNIC for Asia/Pacific IPs, ARIN for American IPs etc. The search page for RIPE is here apps.db.ripe.net/search/query.htmlThe IP 178.175.139.54 is registered to a company in the UK, VPSCORNER Ltd. Then of course you can Google VPSCORNER and find out more about them. The point is that whoever posted the ad for Graelsia isabellae cocoons etc could be anywhere. I can't rule out the possibility that this is a genuine ad as I know that Graelsia isabellae and Argema mittrei have been bred from imported livestock in countries such as the UK. David Hall
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Post by cyane on Jul 6, 2013 5:26:43 GMT -8
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Post by cyane on Jul 6, 2013 4:45:42 GMT -8
Here are a few papers (including the one Adam mentions) and pics of pinned specimens and live adults of P homerus available on the net. (these are all from the first page of results from googling "Papilio homerus") There are so many more papers available for free online now. I just wish all papers were. It does make me wonder how specimens of a CITES 1 listed species manage to make thier way to the USA. David Hall. PAPILIO HOMERUS (PAPILIONIDAE) IN JAMAICA, WEST INDIES: FIELD OBSERVATIONS AND DESCRIPTION OF IMMATURE STAGES THOMAS W. TURNER 1991 images.peabody.yale.edu/lepsoc/jls/1990s/1991/1991-45(4)259-Turner.pdfNOTES ON THE OSMETERIA OF PAPILIO HOMERUS LARVAE ERIC GARRAWAY and JOHN R. PARNELL 1993 www.troplep.org/TLR/4-1/pdf007.pdfECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION BIOLOGY OF THE HOMERUS SWALLOWTAIL IN JAMAICA THOMAS C. EMMEL and ERIC GARRAWAY 1990 www.troplep.org/TLR/1-2/pdf005.pdfNEW POPULATIONS OF THE JAMAICAN GIANT SWALLOWTAIL, PAPILIO (PTEROURUS) HOMERUS Eric Garraway,Herlitz A. Davis, Noel Snyder and Audette J. A. Bailey 2008 www.troplep.org/TLR/18-1/Garraway-et-al.pdfPics of both pinned specimens and live butterflies butterfliesofamerica.com/papilio_homerus.htm
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Post by cyane on Jul 4, 2013 5:09:53 GMT -8
I think this is a good place to show a link to "Delving into Delias" a paper by Chris Muller, Pavel F. Matos-Maravı and Luciano B. Beheregaray. The abstract states : "Aim: Our objective was to reconstruct a species-level phylogeny of the genus Delias, to elucidate their finer-scale biogeography and to test boundaries between closely related taxa. Location Indo-Australian region, with a focus on Wallacea. Methods Sequence data from 131 taxa, representing all recognized species groups and more than half of the known species of Delias, were used in the analysis. Phylogenetic analyses based on molecular characters of the mitochondrial gene cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) and nuclear genes wingless and elongation factor 1a (EF-1a) were carried out using maximum parsimony and Bayesian inference. Biogeographical reconstructions were undertaken using the parsimony-based method dispersal–vicariance analysis and the dispersal–extinction– cladogenesis model as implemented in rasp and Lagrange, respectively." Its quite a technical paper and needs a good knowledge of DNA etc to be fully understood. But I'm sure some of our Delias enthusiasts will find it fascinating. www.molecularecology.flinders.edu.au/uploads/54834/ufiles/pdf/116_delias_JB.pdfBy the way after seeing Mr Nomads pics of D roepkei I searched through my old stock (I used to be an insect trader) and found I still have several papered specimens from IFTA labeled "D mira, Kerowagi". David Hall Australia
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Post by cyane on May 4, 2013 4:39:11 GMT -8
I've bought several specimens from him through ebay and never had a problem. Quality as stated or shown in the photo, excellent data, good packaging. David Hall
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Post by cyane on Apr 29, 2013 0:29:37 GMT -8
Email is on its way Adam.
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Post by cyane on Apr 20, 2013 6:14:26 GMT -8
I agree with Manfred, the amount of gold scaling is pretty typical for epiphanes. However victoriae is a variable butterfly, and a golden "aberration" of some other subspecies cant be ruled out. David Hall
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Post by cyane on Mar 27, 2013 14:08:45 GMT -8
I met him in the Solomons many years ago. He was a politician and I think still is. I didnt buy anything off him so I really can't comment any more.
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