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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 18:00:38 GMT
 All from the 1950's, Kent |
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Post by nomad on Feb 24, 2017 19:47:06 GMT
A nice series of a super Catocala, I wonder if there is a similar species in North America?
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Post by Paul K on Feb 24, 2017 21:07:04 GMT
A nice series of a super Catocala, I wonder if there is a similar species in North America? No , no blue Catocala there. Paul |
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Post by nomad on Feb 24, 2017 21:19:05 GMT
That is surprising, considering the huge range of Catocala species found there.
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Post by trehopr1 on Feb 25, 2017 23:59:34 GMT
Fraxini is indeed a marvelous species and unique in its bluish colored hind wing bands. It is also a large species as Catocala go. While it is true that we lack a comparable blue species here across the pond; we do have several very notable species desired by collectors for their own unique colors as well as size. Our white underwing (relicta) is most certainly that which comes to mind first. It is quite variable in the amounts of white/ black coloration present. It has a least 2 named color forms (clara, phyrinia) which I am aware of. A "touch" smaller than fraxini in size but, always a welcome sight to collectors whenever it is found. Paul K should be well aware of this one as it is to be found throughout much of southern Canada and our northern wooded border states.
Other species of particular notoriety are maestosa (largest black species), amatrix (largest pink species), cara (scarlet pink like no other), concumbens (hot pink that will haze your eyes), illecta (our medium sized truely yellow catocala), nebulosa (with its mottled "woodsy" coloration), and sappho (for its relative rarity and unique light grey fw./ brownish hw.) just to mention a few....
All told we have somewhere between 110-115 species recognized alone on the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. Moth collectors in Britain would just go "nuts visiting here in July-Aug" literally sugaring or lighting every night of their stay. Could easily rack up 25 species or more in a week in the right haunts.
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Post by Paul K on Feb 26, 2017 2:28:33 GMT
Yes, Catocala relicta can be found in parks near Toronto and in fact this is the closest looking species to fraxini that instead of blue has white bend. Well the forewings are lighter too, but in all it looks like faded fraxini a bit.
Paul
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Post by trehopr1 on Feb 26, 2017 4:08:37 GMT
Have you collected any yourself Paul K up in Canada ? Relicta here in Illinois is a very localized species with specimens only being taken in some counties of our border with Wisconsin and a strange occurance of a localized population of them in Peoria (South of Chicago). Nowhere else in my state otherwise.
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Post by Paul K on Feb 26, 2017 4:27:55 GMT
Have you collected any yourself Paul K up in Canada ? Relicta here in Illinois is a very localized species with specimens only being taken in some counties of our border with Wisconsin and a strange occurance of a localized population of them in Peoria (South of Chicago). Nowhere else in my state otherwise. Yes, I collected one specimen back in 1998/99 but I am sure I saw them few times. Here is my very short series of Catocala collected at this one locality in conservation area within suburbs of Toronto.  Paul |
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