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Post by mygos on Sept 16, 2015 19:57:59 GMT
Oups Peter, Hyloicus pinastri with 1 "n" only A+, Michel
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Post by nomad on Sept 20, 2015 13:56:30 GMT
The brood of Lycaena phlaeas that we saw in Corsica were quite dark, something that you do not see in the U.K. Bretherton and De Worms in their article ' Butterflies of Corsica' published in the ' Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation ( 1962) refer to the Corsican race as L. phlaeas aestivus Zeller 1847. The latter I see is now treated as a synonym. Does that mean that the Corsican phlaeas should be treated as belonging to the nominate form in spite of the obvious differences. One for the European specialists I believe. Lycaena phlaeas Vizzavona.
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Post by wollastoni on Sept 20, 2015 14:32:03 GMT
Very dark indeed ! Impressive. And this one is also the form with the little blue dots.
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Post by nomad on Sept 20, 2015 14:32:57 GMT
L. sinapis in Corsica was once described as a subspecies corsica Verity 1911 and this is now regarded as a synonym of the nominate race. This butterfly was quite common in the woods of Vizzavona but they were ever patrolling and never kept still. An late evening walk produced a resting sinapis but the results were a little disappointing, not enough depth of field because no flash was used in those dark woodlands.
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Post by nomad on Sept 20, 2015 14:37:23 GMT
Very dark indeed ! Impressive. And this one is also the form with the little blue dots. Aberrant form caeruleo-punctata.
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Post by nomad on Sept 20, 2015 15:01:32 GMT
The Corsican Speckled wood has been referred to as Pararge aegeria sardoa Verity but this may be a synonym of the nominate race. Corsica.
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Post by nomad on Nov 28, 2015 13:03:09 GMT
Looking through my Corsican images, there are a few others that might be of interest, so I will post them here. Up in rocky places in the mountains, we found a few Aricia agestis calida Bellier. This form has very bright submarginal orange spots.
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Post by nomad on Nov 28, 2015 13:16:50 GMT
We only saw one male of the Corsican subspecies, Polyommatus icarus sardoa. We were probably out of season for this lovely lycaenid. The females of this race have the submarginal spots well developed. Our single male was seen along a track high up in the Vizzavona forest. It landed on some bramble flowers to feed and rest, then as I disturbed it, the butterfly shot up high into the air to disappear over the towering hundred foot plus pines. Strange behaviour for this Lycaenid!!
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Post by nomad on Jul 18, 2016 19:56:55 GMT
Well, this lovely Swallowtail Iphiclides podalirius must be very familiar with most of our European members. Not so us Brits, we do not have it, perhaps it has occasionally turned up here a few times as a migrant, perhaps not. One day during our holiday in Corsica, we set off for the town of Corte on the super mountain train. What a lovely old place the centre of that town is, we tried walking up the Resonica Valley but it was too hot, above 100 degrees, phew. So myself and my very hot wife returned to the centre of Corte to seek refreshment. In the middle of the old part of town was a buddleia. In my small garden in England which is in the centre of a large town I have a large bush of this lovely honey scented shrub but the only visitors this year have been Pieris and a lone Vanessa atalanta. Well on this Buddleia in Corsica was a I. Podalirius feeding on the purple flowers, mostly at the top of the bush. Luckliy an old cobbled street wound around the bush and standing on a wall on the bend, I took these images. Perching on the wall caused much amusement to the locals and shopkeepers below. Just another mad Englishman after a Papilio they must have thought. I see that many now regard this as a distinct taxon Iphiclides feisthamelii (Duponchel, 1832)
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Post by Adam Cotton on Jul 18, 2016 20:11:22 GMT
No this is podalirius, feisthamelii occurs from N Africa to Spain and as far as Perpignan in southern France, where it occurs together with podalirius.
Adam.
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