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Post by hewi on Nov 13, 2018 18:07:17 GMT
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Post by hewi on Nov 4, 2018 22:44:45 GMT
Only one specimen was from Christoph (not Werner) Zöller, the victoriae. It is a very gold-coloured specimen, unfortunately not visible at the photo.
I am particularly happy about the pair of Gonepteryx chitralensis which I had never seen offered before.
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Post by hewi on Nov 4, 2018 12:19:08 GMT
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Post by hewi on Nov 1, 2018 20:20:22 GMT
differential diagnosis
length of forewing ♂ (n = 6): 23-27 mm; ♀ (n = 4): 24-26 mm. Compared with the subspecies tagai, in the male sex almae n. ssp. is characterized by the following features (Fig. I-2):
1. forewing upperside with strongly dark scaled discoidal cell
(in the case of tagai white; see Yagishita & Morita 1996: figs.
47-50);
2. the white spots of the submarginal row smaller and less clearly
contoured than in tagai;
3. the black band at the apex of the cell more pronounced and
along the vein M1 broader merging into the black outer
margin area.
The same pattern as with 3. is also found on the underside of the forewing, where too the discoidal cell is essentially darker scaled than tagai. Altogether the forewings of the new subspecies almae give a diffuse more dark impression, above and below. At the underside of the hindwings the dark postdiscal arched line is more distinct than in tagai.
The ♀♀ of both subspecies are largely identical in coloration and arrangement of pattern (Fig. 3-4).
At first glance, almae n. ssp. can be separated from the nominotypical subspecies by the lemon-yellow ground colour of the underside of the hindwing (which it shares with tagai, by the way), while n. nuydaorum here has a vivid orange-yellow colouring, with much more darker vains and pattern elements that are more pronounced.
In the male genital structures (Fig. 5), the valves have a more stout form compared to a more elongated, as shows Yata (1981:320) for n. nuydaorum. In addition the separated apex of the valve of almae is more uniform than in the nominotypical subspecies. Here, the formation of the end of the valve appears much more clumsy. The paired prolongations of the uncus are slightly more slender in almae.
Note to the locus typicus of the nominotypical subspecies: In the original description of Delias nuydaorum the text of the locality label of the holotype - and thus the locus typicus of the species - is reproduced only incompletely for reasons that are no longer traceable (Schröder 1975: 269). We now quote here the full wording of the label: "Mindanao, Bukidnon, Lantapan, Humacsil, May 1968.
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Post by hewi on Nov 1, 2018 14:19:58 GMT
They are sold individually
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Post by hewi on Nov 1, 2018 11:43:23 GMT
A box with extremely rare butterflies will be offered 1 ♂ Protesilaus (Eurytides) orthosilaus 1 ♂ Eurytides iphitas 1 ♂ Papilio elephenor 1 ♂♀ golden Ornithoptera priamus euphorion f. weylandensis (illustration in book of Bela von Knötgen) 1 ♂ Ornithoptera priamus euphorion f. kogane 1 ♂♀ Troides miranda miranda 1 ♂ Ornithoptera priamus miokensis 1 gynandromorph Ornithoptera croesus lydius (illustration in Deslisle/Sclavo book) 1 natural aberration (not breed) ♂ Morpho rhetenor ex Guyana (super rarity) 1 gynandromorph Morpho rhetenor caccica it wasn't possible to upload a picture here. Therefore follow this link: insectnet.proboards.com/thread/8095/frankfurt-insect-fair-extremely-butterflies
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Post by hewi on Oct 23, 2018 14:40:26 GMT
sorry, due to copyright this is not possible
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Post by hewi on Oct 23, 2018 13:58:11 GMT
The position of the new Papilio seems uncertain. I quote the authors: "P. natewa has a unique set of characters, suggesting that placement in its own species group ('section') within Papilio may be appropriate".
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Post by hewi on Oct 23, 2018 13:46:55 GMT
totally new and really beautiful !
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Post by hewi on Oct 23, 2018 8:59:47 GMT
Papilio natewa n.sp.
TL.: Fiji, Vanua Levu, Natewa Peninsula
W.J. Tennent, V. Chandra & C.J. Müller:
"A remarkable new swallowtail butterfly from Fiji (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae)", Nachr. ent. Ver. Apollo, 39/2, 10/2018, p. 53-61, Fig. 1-3
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Post by hewi on Oct 8, 2018 11:33:23 GMT
it would be nice to meet you here to one of the biggest fairs in Europe !!!
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Post by hewi on May 29, 2018 13:00:31 GMT
Germany (in the past):
Jacob Hübner, Adalbert Seitz, Otto Staudinger, Hans Ferdinand Stichel, Hans Fruhstorfer, Felix Bryk, Wilhelm Niepelt, Otto Bang-Haas, Anton Hermann Fassl etc. .....
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Post by hewi on May 26, 2018 22:06:07 GMT
Many thanks for the link to Michael Greef's publication on the life and work of Otto Michael.
It is a pity that the beautiful original watercolors of O. Michael are sleeping in the archives of ETH Zurich and have never been published.
This would be an enrichment for all butterfly lovers as well as for admirers of entomological art.
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Post by hewi on May 19, 2018 22:35:28 GMT
or is it glued?
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Post by hewi on Apr 26, 2018 15:08:00 GMT
Saturnia simloides Saturnia thibetomima Saturnia ngoclinhensis Lemaireia mediovietnama Cricula sokola Cricula acuta Actias laovieta Antheraea scida Antheraea luteofrithi Rhodinia extremaustralis Coscinocera misoolensis
NAUMANN, NÄSSIG & LÖFFLER: Some new Asian Saturniidae (Lepidoptera), Nachr. entomol. Ver. Apollo, 38(4), April 2018, pp. 169-180, 3 pl., figs. 1-19
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