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Post by cabintom on Jan 7, 2015 18:33:53 GMT
When I first spread this specimen I figured I wouldn't have any trouble IDing it, and yet I haven't found a single image of a Bicyclus species featuring its blue spots (see HWs)... so help is needed. Caught 5/VII/2014 Nebobongo, Haut-Uele, DRC   Thanks! Tom |
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Post by cabintom on Jan 15, 2015 21:06:50 GMT
No ideas eh? That's too bad! Thanks for taking a look.  Tom |
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Post by deliasfanatic on Jan 16, 2015 2:42:21 GMT
I'm looking in Berger's "Les Papillons du Zaire", and it looks closest to B. italus. Not an exact match in shape nor verso spots, but I don't know the extent of variation. Berger does mention the blue spot in the male, however; I took a quick glance in D'Abrera and didn't see any mention of the latter.
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Post by cabintom on Jan 16, 2015 3:25:20 GMT
I'm looking in Berger's "Les Papillons du Zaire" That's a book I'd like to find at a semi-reasonable price! Thank you for the lead! |
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Post by deliasfanatic on Jan 16, 2015 3:48:19 GMT
It's not easy to find...especially at a semi-reasonable price! I looked for 4-5 years before I found one. Now that we know Michel, perhaps he could point you in the right direction |
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Post by mygos on Jan 16, 2015 7:26:57 GMT
The cheapest on the web at the moment is one of my bookshop here As Danny said, it is difficult to find them at reasonable price A+, Michel |
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Post by cabintom on Jan 16, 2015 14:36:59 GMT
I read somewhere that most of the books that were printed somehow ended up within the DR Congo... it's such a fractured country now that I'm not sure many will ever resurface.
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Post by mygos on Jan 16, 2015 19:46:10 GMT
Yes Tom, Mobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire, ask some specialist to write books on Zaire, such as Lippens on birds and Berger on butterflies !
These books were given to official visitors (Diplomats) and only a few copies have been distributed through the trade business.
As this happened in Africa, books were immediatly stolen by the people working in the Presidency, and I know people from the other forum who obtained their copy like this ...
My copy was offered to me by its author Lucien Berger who dedicate it for me at an evening dinner with his wife and Mr and Mrs Hecq, Euphaedra specialist and Lambillionea president for many years !
A+, Michel
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Post by cabintom on Jan 16, 2015 20:49:07 GMT
My copy was offered to me by its author Lucien Berger who dedicate it for me at an evening dinner with his wife and Mr and Mrs Hecq, Euphaedra specialist and Lambillionea president for many years ! Book or not, I think I would have very much liked to join that meal! |
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Post by mygos on Jan 16, 2015 21:01:23 GMT
If I remember well, it was a very formal meal. I was about your age : 24 years old, I was wearing a suit, probably with a tie ...
What I do remember, is that it was snowing that night in winter, and I had to drive back to my family friends under severe conditions !, but with my book safe with me ... Very good souvenirs indeed !
A+, Michel
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Post by jmg on Jan 20, 2015 0:39:24 GMT
Could be Bicyclus golo (Aurivillius, 1893), male.
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Post by cabintom on Jan 20, 2015 3:48:51 GMT
Could be Bicyclus golo (Aurivillius, 1893), male. Thanks for the suggestion! I'm not sure this is it either... though I wish I had a better command of Latin so that I could read Aurivillius' original description. |
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Post by cabintom on Feb 2, 2015 20:34:34 GMT
I have been informed by a gentleman who is revising the genus, that this is in fact Bicyclus sandace!
Thanks for your help everyone!
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