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Post by Adam Cotton on May 28, 2018 16:07:53 GMT
Here in Thailand one of the influential entomologists of the last 40 years was Jarujin Nabhitabhata, who sadly lost his life in 2008 due to a reaction to a local anaesthetic. I first met him in 1980, and the last time I saw him was when I took a box of spare specimens to give him at the National Museum in Pathum Thani, just north of Bangkok, in 2006. www.researchgate.net/publication/265058993_Obituary-_Jarujin_Nabhitabhata_1950-2008Adam.
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Post by Adam Cotton on May 27, 2018 7:02:39 GMT
I have received an e-mail from John Heppner informing me that:
"Tom Emmel died today in Brazil. He was on his way back to the US from Rondonia, supposed to get in last night, but the flight to Orlando was delayed waiting on fuel for jet, and airline had put all passengers up in a hotel last night. Tom was found dead in his hotel room, from apparently natural causes."
This is very sad news, as well as being one of the eminent US lepidopterists he was also founder of the McGuire Centre in Gainsville, Florida.
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Post by Adam Cotton on May 24, 2018 16:21:38 GMT
I assume that Paul actually meant "... NOT cost effective for the administrator".
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Post by Adam Cotton on May 23, 2018 9:17:09 GMT
This is the photo of underside of the specimen Col.1 second from the bottom. I can confirm that the identification of this specimen is correct. The base of the hindwing upperside is rather unusual, but the underside is obviously doson. Adam.
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Post by Adam Cotton on May 23, 2018 9:15:22 GMT
Thai ssp. of G.sarpedon is treated differently in each book. I based my determination on Inayoshi's site where G.sarpedon ssp.sarpedon should inhabits all Indochina. In Kimura's book it is ssp.corbeti in mainland and luctatius in peninsula. In Ek-Amnuay it is also ssp.sarpedon and luctatius and corbeti are synonyms. Should I change the labels to be correct? No don't change the labels now, the classification of sarpedon may well be updated in a while. However, Chinese sarpedon is different to Indochinese, although there are intermediates in N Vietnam and eastern Laos. Page & Treadaway (2013) treat Indochinese sarpedon as ssp. luctatius, and that is the latest work on the sarpedon group, although it seems some of their classification may not be accurate. While Inayoshi's website is very useful, the classification of many taxa listed there has not been updated for a long time. The name corbeti Toxopeus, 1951 is a replacement name for the homonym melas Fruhstorfer, 1907 (type locality: "Tonkin; Tenasserim"). The type of luctatius Fruhstorfer, 1907 is "Nord-Borneo", and there does not seem to be any consistent difference between Borneo and Indochinese sarpedon. Adam.
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Post by Adam Cotton on May 22, 2018 15:36:42 GMT
I meant to comment on the last photo several days ago but forgot.
Firstly, I think that the subspecies of sarpedon should be luctatius rather than ssp. sarpedon which occurs in China.
Can you possibly post an underside photo of the second specimen from the bottom of column 1. It's a pity you didn't open the androconial folds of the eurypylus group specimens, as the androconial scales inside are different for each species.
You don't seem to have G. evemon, it is one of the commonest species in the Malay peninsula, but the Indochinese subspecies albociliatus is rather local, and so far has not been recorded from Thailand at all. It is found in NW and E Laos and also in Shan States and southern Yunnan. There are several species that skirt around Thailand, but I suspect that albociliatus may be present in Nan Province along the areas bordering NW Laos.
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Post by Adam Cotton on May 21, 2018 8:07:04 GMT
Why not 8000 or 9000 but 8,888??? I think it's because of Chinese superstition about certain numbers. Adam.
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Post by Adam Cotton on May 20, 2018 16:08:55 GMT
The forewings are normal arcturus, so presumably the bianor hindwing has been artificially attached somehow. I am pretty sure this is the same specimen offered before, and these are the same series of photos that came with the original offering. I remember the absence of legs from that offering too.
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Post by Adam Cotton on May 20, 2018 11:29:33 GMT
Indeed it cannot be natural as it is not possible for a specimen to have hindwings of two separate species. This specimen or an almost identical one was offered on eBay maybe 10 years ago, and as Jan guessed one hindwing is arcturus and the other is bianor.
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Post by Adam Cotton on May 19, 2018 8:50:27 GMT
Tanya,
Welcome to the forum. Post a photo (preferably not blurry) in the Insect identification section and tell us where in the world you are (approximate location is important), hopefully someone will then be able to tell you what it is.
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Post by Adam Cotton on May 16, 2018 11:32:18 GMT
It might be Yponomeuta cagnagella (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae) or a related species of Ermine moth.
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Post by Adam Cotton on May 16, 2018 8:35:36 GMT
How does this site compare to zootaxa? They are completely different, Zootaxa is a journal whereas ResearchGate is sort of like a social media platform for scientists. Members can upload their non-copyright publications to the site, and people can read them there. You have to be a published research scientist to join, and normally you must have an institutional e-mail address as proof of affiliation. It took me 6 months to be approved since I am an independent researcher, not actually affiliated to an institution. Eventually they allowed me to become a member (I think it took some time because then they were rather busy with more important things). Here's a link to my page www.researchgate.net/profile/Adam_Cotton . I originally thought that only members can access the site, but it seems that anyone can browse, although I assume much of the functionality is only available to members who have logged in. I am not certain whether non-members can use the search function, but I assume they must be able to. You can search for particular publications, keywords, members by name etc, and of course the publications are not restricted to any particular journal or field of science. Many publications are not available for direct download, but usually a doi link is provided for copyright publications. Members can send a request to the author (assuming he is a member) to see a publication not available for direct download, sometimes they reply and sometimes they don't.
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Post by Adam Cotton on May 12, 2018 17:08:29 GMT
The only Taenaris in Malaysia is T. horsfieldi and this doesn't look like the pictures I have seen of that. Are you sure the data is correct? Do you have a more precise locality, West or East Malaysia? An underside photo might help too.
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Post by Adam Cotton on May 11, 2018 18:25:05 GMT
That may be Charaxes kahruba.
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Post by Adam Cotton on May 11, 2018 15:59:52 GMT
#2 from Vietnam is Euploea mulciber mulciber female. #1 is a Charaxes but these are rather difficult to identify, probably an expert will also want to see the underside.
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