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Post by Adam Cotton on Jan 27, 2016 19:00:50 GMT
Have you set this lovely bianor yet Adam?? Rich Thanks for reminding me; I have spread it, but not printed a label yet so here are small photos of both sides. Upperside first: Adam.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Jan 27, 2016 19:01:49 GMT
Underside:
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Post by deliasfanatic on Jan 27, 2016 19:34:42 GMT
Spectacular!
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Post by nomad on Jan 27, 2016 20:10:55 GMT
I agree, wonderful.
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Post by timmsyrj on Jan 27, 2016 20:42:26 GMT
Wow, magnificent, glad I reminded you.
Rich
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Post by mygos on Jan 27, 2016 21:37:36 GMT
Very nice specimen Adam !
A+, Michel
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Post by trehopr1 on Jan 28, 2016 4:05:27 GMT
Exceptional specimen Adam ! Is it possible to continue its lineage in the hope of securing more of its kind or is this a case of happenstance that you got it at all ? Just curious as I have never done any breeding of Lepidoptera. Your breeding experiments on memnon and others have certainly produced some awesome specimens....
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Post by Adam Cotton on Jan 28, 2016 17:31:01 GMT
I have been breeding this bianor lineage in large numbers for a couple of years and only got this one spectacular specimen. I was hoping that maybe a sibling would emerge with similar aberrant characters so I could use it for breeding, but I have only got the one specimen so far. A few weeks ago I did get a mosaic gynandromorph, mostly female but male colour streaks and interestingly with androconial patches on both forewings. It's on the setting board, and I'll post a photo when I take it off.
This aberration has actually occurred before in Chinese bianor, I have a photo of a female in the Castelyn (Belgium) collection and Chou, Yuan & Wang (2000) described a male of this type of aberration as a new species, Papilio elegans, which I synonymized with ssp. bianor in my 2007 Papilionidae of Laos paper.
Adam.
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