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Post by nomad on Feb 7, 2015 20:11:08 GMT
One more for this evening a named subspecies and a good specimen. P. apollo styriacus frhs from Prebichl, Styria, Austria. Collected by B.H. Cooke in 1930. Illustrated by the fine artist Richard Lewington. Please excuse the yellowing on some of the specimens, this was due to the over head lighting. No flash Guns used in the museum.
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iroki
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Post by iroki on Feb 7, 2015 22:23:05 GMT
"Montagne de lure. Alps de Haute France" it is ssp. venaissinus
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Post by wollastoni on Feb 8, 2015 8:13:44 GMT
Yes and correct area name is "Alpes de Haute-Provence"
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Post by nomad on Feb 8, 2015 8:47:05 GMT
isaricus is a rarity in museums!! Even 100 years ago it was a rarity in collections, just like all the other Czech ssp. nowadays it is impossible to get. These are true rarities. Many of them were described when all the localities were already extinct. Thanks to Czech collectors like Hugo Otto Viktor SKALA (Die Lepidopterenfauna Mährens) , Dr. Jakob STERNECK (Prodromus der Lepidopterenfauna Böhmen), Josef Ernst Kammel and Austrian professor Hans Kolar we evidence of those long lost localities. Currently there is free to download a paper "Zur Rassenfrage von Parnassius apollo L. in den Sudetenländern" by Hans Rebel where all ssp. are discussed. The last photo is actually Parnassius sacerdos not apollo Interesting information, the museum will be pleased, that they have one of the extinct Czech subspecies. I fully admit I am a novice as regards parnassius, but find the distribution and extinctions of the European apollo very interesting. Do you mean Parnassius phoebus sacerdos or is the latter now regarded as a separate species. I am not sure how that museum acquired that name under their specimen.
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Post by nomad on Feb 8, 2015 8:49:21 GMT
"Montagne de lure. Alps de Haute France" it is ssp. venaissinus Thank you for the ID iroki.
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Post by nomad on Feb 8, 2015 8:51:51 GMT
Yes and correct area name is "Alpes de Haute-Provence" I expect you have seen apollo in France. You are very lucky to have this wonderful insect. I believe it is much declined in your country.
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Post by nomad on Feb 8, 2015 10:26:59 GMT
apollo. subspecies? from Val Maggia, Swizerland captured by F.E. Lowe 1909, ex coll H. Rowland- Brown.
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iroki
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Post by iroki on Feb 8, 2015 10:54:03 GMT
ssp. heliophilus, type locality.
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Post by wollastoni on Feb 8, 2015 10:58:20 GMT
Yes nomad, I have seen plenty of apollo in France. I still remember the first one I saw in my life when I was a kid during holidays in Franche-Comtée.
I have seen plenty in Haute Savoie were it was common few years ago.
And I have seen one of ssp venaissinus in Lubéron 3 years ago.
I have never seen sacerdos and mnemosyne though.
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Post by nomad on Feb 8, 2015 11:09:48 GMT
It take it this is the rare P. apollo nevadensis ( Oberthur 1901). Capture in Andalucia, Serria Nevada Spain, Rommei 1925 ex coll H.J. Turner. Although from the images I have seen, those margin orange-spots seem unusual ?
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Post by nomad on Feb 8, 2015 11:28:33 GMT
apollo. subspecies ? from Bronchales in Province of Teruel, Aragon Spain. 1901. T.A.C ex coll H.J. Turner.
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Post by nomad on Feb 8, 2015 11:55:47 GMT
apollo from Turkestan ( Tian Shan?)- Wernji ( collector ) Ex collection. H.J. Turner. Named subspecies merzbacheri Fruhstorfer 1906.
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Post by nomad on Feb 8, 2015 12:12:53 GMT
P. apollo named as subspecies rhadopensis (Markowitsch 1910) from Bulgaria.ex coll H.J. Turner.
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Post by nomad on Feb 8, 2015 12:23:36 GMT
P. apollo. subspecies? Rax Alps, Lower Austria. B.H. Cooke 1901 ex coll B.H. Cooke.
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Post by nomad on Feb 8, 2015 12:38:22 GMT
P. apollo from Macedonia Mount Olymnus -4500 feet Romei 1936. ex collection H.J. Turner. named as subspecies grajus (Ziegler 1901). Anyone heard of the collector Romei?
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