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Post by jmg on Dec 18, 2020 9:19:53 GMT
I can't see the video on my laptop (it says "Vidéo non disponible. Cette vidéo est privée") It works now ! In fact, we've edited the video to correct some small spelling mistakes!
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Post by jmg on Dec 17, 2020 17:10:28 GMT
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Post by jmg on Dec 6, 2020 10:24:45 GMT
I hope that, despite the pandemic, I could stay there next March (good time for butterflies and not too much rains). I settle in at Relais Patawa, about ten kilometers further than Amazon Nature Lodge, because the owners of Patawa are friends. A car is essential because there are lots of good sites along this route. And also, from time to time, to get to where we pick up the telephone and the internet. First spot where we get the network: the junction of the track for the Fourgassier waterfalls (this track is also favorable to lepidoptera encounters - last April, I also met a jaguarundi on the said track!). At the start of the small track that leads to Amazone Nature Lodge (actually the clearing where the track starts from the road), good spot for Morpho rhetenor and Morpho hecuba (November or March-April). We can also meet some papilionidae ( torquatus, Parides sp.) foraging on the flowers on the sides of the road. That said, in my own experience (many stays in this region), the best lepidopteran sites are the two tracks that start on the left of the road, 1.5 and 2 kilometers after the Relais Patawa ("layon" 1 and "layon" 2). The first is easily visited for more than 5 km, the second is quite overgrown with many downed trees (better to have a machete!). Note that the Relais Patawa is also equipped for night collecting. If we look at the Google Earth map at the top of this page, the two paths in question are where there is the word "Kaw" in red. These videos were made mainly on this first path after Patawa: collector-secret.proboards.com/thread/3444/panacea-bleuzeni collector-secret.proboards.com/thread/3314/memories-containment-guyane
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Post by jmg on Nov 29, 2020 17:14:48 GMT
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Post by jmg on Nov 14, 2020 9:56:20 GMT
Seems to be Baeotus deucalion.
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Post by jmg on Nov 8, 2020 18:32:22 GMT
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Post by jmg on Nov 1, 2020 17:01:12 GMT
I'm not a specialist in the Bebearia and Euphaedra genus. What I find amazing is the complete absence of marks, dots or spots in the hind wing cell (ventral side). Likewise, rare are the species with two dots aligned in the forewing cell (usually at least three dots). Euphaedra lupercoides, for example, thus displays two black dots aligned on the forewing underside cell but also two large black dots in the hind wing cell. According R. Vande weghe ( Papillons du Gabon), E. lupercoides Rothschild, 1918, flies in Eastern Congo and is everywhere rare. Nevertheless, this sample does not match exactly with the lupercoides illustrated on page 111 (male and female).
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Post by jmg on Nov 1, 2020 8:48:55 GMT
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Post by jmg on Nov 1, 2020 8:38:36 GMT
Here Parides iphidamas iphidamas, male and female, from El Pirú, Chiapas (Mexico): and here Parides iphidamas calogyna (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906), male, from Tunda Loma, Calderón (Esmeraldas, Ecuador): the female from the same location :
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Post by jmg on Oct 31, 2020 23:45:06 GMT
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Post by jmg on Oct 31, 2020 16:55:54 GMT
I must confess that I don't remember how I made the sexual determination ! Sorry ! Probably, because it matches totaly with the sample on BOA page : www.butterfliesofamerica.com/ih01/Baeotus_deucalion_male_V_SPECIMEN_COLOMBIA_Amazonas_Rio_Amacayacu_27-XII-2001_Luis_Miguel_Constantino_i.htm It is also possible that we examined the insect very closely after having photographed it and before releasing it. Still, I considered the photo to be that of a male. There is also a criterion for determining the sex: the B. deucalion in my photo is engaged in "mud-puddling", which is usually a practice of males. Note that these banks of the Río Amacayacu are very rich in butterflies and that both species can be found there at the same time and in the same place. Río Amacayacu (Amazonas), October 12, 2019. Photo: jmg Panacea prola prola (E. Doubleday, [1848]), Baeotus aeilus (Stoll, 1780), Dryas iulia alcionea (Cramer, 1779) and Urania leilus (Linnaeus, 1758). Río Amacayacu (Amazonas), October 10, 2019. Photo: jmg Papilionidae and Pieridae on the bank. Río Amacayacu (Amazonas), October 10, 2019. Photo: jmg Eurytides dolicaon deileon (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865) and Protesilaus telesilaus dolius (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906). Río Amacayacu (Amazonas), October 10, 2019. Photo: jmg Finally, we can also note that at this moment (October-November 2020), if it weren't for this covid-19 abomination, I would be on the Río Amacayacu again! Río Amacayacu (Amazonas), October 12, 2019. Before .... And after the shipwreck !
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Post by jmg on Oct 31, 2020 10:03:25 GMT
Here is Baeotus deucalion (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1860), ♂ (I presume). Río Amacayacu (Amazonas, Colombia), October, 12, 2019. Photo: JMG. The eyes look red. And here Baeotus aeilus (Stoll, 1780). Same location and same day.
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Post by jmg on Sept 29, 2020 22:42:38 GMT
Yes, the Morpho is Morpho helenor. From where it is ? Looks more like M. helenor helenor than others subspecies.
First Delias : Delias nais. Second Delias : D. periboea (many subspecies to check !)
Again, would be useful to learn the location !
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Post by jmg on Sept 28, 2020 16:43:27 GMT
Several authors explain the parasitism to which antiopa is a victim through the gregarious behavior of the caterpillars which, thus grouped together, form accessible targets for Tachinids or Ichneumons.
That said, among the adults encountered in France (rarely!), several were found around Puget-sur-Argens not far from the Esterel massif.
As already said, this year 2020, I saw only one specimen flying near the top of the Montagne de Lure, near willows (feeder plant for caterpillars: Salix alba).
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Post by jmg on Sept 28, 2020 16:27:50 GMT
Two interesting and superbs videos from French Guyane : Theritas mavors and Theritas hemon (Lycaenidae). Enjoy ! www.lepidofrance.com/theritas-mavors-et-theritas-hemon/Here : Theritas hemon (Cramer, 1775). Gîte Moutouchi, Plateau des Mines, November 29, 2017. Photo : J.-M. Gayman
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