While at ABRI I discovered a box of 40 female P. antimachus

[cabintom]

Aren't they great?!



A close up of the D.R. Congo ("Zaire") specimens:



And the nice heavily marked yellow one from Cameroon:



And a couple of males, alongside the moths (Zygaenidae?) they mimic:


These are, of course, Pseudaletis antimachus (Staudinger, 1887). I hope you enjoyed them as much as I do!

[mcheki]

Absolutely brilliant. Thanks for showing these.

[mygos]

I love the title of your post Well done Tom

A+, Michel

[wollastoni]

Hahaha, you got me !

Nice species I didn't know!

[africaone]

what is amazing is that there are probably no more females of antimachus  than females of antimachus

did you got the boxes with antimachus females ?

[cabintom]

Nov 14, 2016 11:28:15 GMT africaone said:

did you got the boxes with antimachus females ?

lol
I saw it, but I didn't take the time to photograph it.

[Adam Cotton]

Superb species. I did wonder how there could be 40 antimachus in a single draw, even females.

Adam.

[timmsyrj]

Yes caught me out with that title too Adam, very crafty Tom, I could probably get 40 female Papilio antimachus in one of my Ornithoptera drawers but I'd settle for just one of those beneath my 3 males in a more standard drawer.

Nice series of a lovely little bug.

Rich

[beetle1985]

Hi friends.

How now is looking female antimachus market?

[africaone]

seems that the guy who caught some, continues to get some more in good quality. then the market is probably falling.

[cabintom]

lol I have to admit, I read the title of this thread, and for a split second I thought "Wow! That's a lot of Papilio antimachus!"... I'll blame it on the loooong day I've had.