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Post by africaone on Oct 14, 2016 21:46:50 GMT
What awesome drawers! Though they make me sad that I've only managed to snag a single specimen from the genus. the re is a well known locality for Colotis not far from you : Mahagi port ...
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Post by cabintom on Oct 15, 2016 4:01:17 GMT
the re is a well known locality for Colotis not far from you : Mahagi port ... No not far, but nonetheless it's quite difficult to get there. The roads are often just endless stretches of mud. It might only be a hundred km from here, but lately it's been taking people days to make the trip to the Ugandan border there.
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Post by trehopr1 on Oct 15, 2016 7:17:58 GMT
WOW, that is quite simply an AWESOME and staggering assemblage of Colotis species you have mcheki ! A marvelous genus and incredibly rich personal holdings. Many thanks....
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Post by mcheki on Oct 15, 2016 14:05:08 GMT
Unfortunately not as far as I am aware. Got any to offer?
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Post by africaone on Oct 15, 2016 16:35:39 GMT
Unfortunately not as far as I am aware. Got any to offer? unfortunetely, it is one that I have never found (as the ungemachti that you are lucky to have )
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Post by nomad on Oct 17, 2016 13:13:43 GMT
That's some collection !!
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Post by daveuk on Oct 17, 2016 18:09:50 GMT
What a truly wonderful collection of Colotis. I don't think I have ever seen so many species in one place..one of my favourite pieridae families & much underrated in my opinion.
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Post by daveuk on Oct 17, 2016 18:25:50 GMT
Belenois sudanensis-Uganda Attachments:
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Post by wollastoni on Oct 17, 2016 18:29:42 GMT
Splendid Dave, and very nice variations !
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Post by mcheki on Oct 18, 2016 14:00:43 GMT
Can anyone help with these two Micropentila specimens? They are both from near Kivu, DRC. The one on the left from Ituri and the one on the right from Kasuo. I only have d’Abrera Vol III to work from with this genus and this has not helped to give me an answer. M katerae is my best guess for the one on the right but the distribution for this is the western shores of Lake Victoria and not Kivu which is on the other side of the Ruwenzori Mountains. The left side one may possibly be a different genus but I still can not determine it.
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Post by mcheki on Oct 18, 2016 14:03:02 GMT
Here are the undersides of the two specimens above.
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Post by cabintom on Oct 18, 2016 17:57:14 GMT
mchekiDisclaimer: I've never looked into the genus before, so I don't have good idea of how similar/different the various species might be. Anyways, the one on the left looks awfully like the type for Micropentila fontainei Stempffer & Bennett, 1965Williams notes the distribution as "Democratic Republic of Congo (Equateur, Sankuru), Uganda (west – Bwamba Valley)." Ituri is sandwiched somewhere abouts the middle of those areas, so I think it makes sense. The one on the right might be Micropentila ugandae Hawker-Smith, 1933 Williams has its distribution as "Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo (Uele, Tshupa(sic), Lualaba), Uganda, Tanzania (north-west)." Again, Nord Kivu is between the Uele, Tshopo and Lualaba provinces and Uganda/Tanzania. Here's the figure from Les Papillons du Zaire: And now, what Berger recorded for both species: EDIT: Sorry I've assumed you know a bit of French... if not, the salient points are that M. fontainei is "very characteristic", M. ugandae's verso is "very similar to that of brunnea", the male's recto "has a yellow transversal band, which is wider in the female, but less than in brunnea, especially in the forewings where it can be lacking entirely".
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Post by mcheki on Oct 19, 2016 16:12:13 GMT
Cabintom. Thank you for your help. I am satisfied you are right about the M fontainei, but still have doubts about the other. I have added M jacksoni and M flavipunctata as further possibilities. I will go on pondering this one.
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Post by mcheki on Oct 26, 2016 18:48:30 GMT
There are two species of the genus Pieris (Pieridae, Lepidoptera) found in sub Saharan Africa. Pieris brassicoides is well known from the highlands of Ethiopia with a further subspecies in the northern highlands of Tanzania. However, recently Pieris brassicae has become established in the Cape Province of South Africa. The attached pictures show a selection of these two, the P brassicoides are from Ethiopia and all the P brassicae are South African. Two other species P krueperi and P rapae may just be found in the Afrotropical Region as strays in Saudi Arabia and Oman.
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Post by mcheki on Nov 1, 2016 15:34:18 GMT
Nepheronia argia is a widespread African species found from Senegal in the west to Kenya in the east and then southwards to Natal and Transvaal in South Africa. There are five subspecies. The male is fairly consistent throughout the range but the females show a lot of variation. This variation occurs within a subspecies but also between the subspecies. The photos illustrate this, the first columns are the western forms and then more eastern forms across the drawer. The second picture shows the more southern forms.
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