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Post by deliasfanatic on Jan 11, 2015 1:53:32 GMT
Graphium schaffgotschi is a virtually unknown African Graphium species, rather recently elevated to species status. Here is a 1931 specimen, ex-Fontaine collection. The verso is subtly different from G. taboranus.  G schaffgotschi M R 1430 by D B, on Flickr  G schaffgotschi M V 1431 by D B, on Flickr |
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Post by nomad on Jan 11, 2015 8:45:30 GMT
Remarkable, can you tell us who was the collector Fontaine. Do you know who he or she was.
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Post by mygos on Jan 11, 2015 9:09:03 GMT
Maurice Fontaine was a belgian entomologist who has been collecting for many years in D.R.C. (Sankuru, Shaba, and others) for the MRAC in Tervuren. He was living in Marcinelle were I met him in the 80's. If I remember well he was a doctor. He wrote many papers in Lambillionea between 1980 and 1991 on early stages of butterflies, mainly Nymphalidae including my favorite genus Cymothoe. He discovered many species and subspecies such as Cymothoe isiro, Cymothoe fontainei, plus many others ...
He died some 10/15 years ago !
I have to find in my documents a photograph I took from him in these days.
A+, Michel
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Post by mygos on Jan 11, 2015 11:22:17 GMT
Here is the photograph of Maurice Fontaine taken in front of his house in Marcinelle, Belgium probably in 1981 !  A+, Michel |
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Post by deliasfanatic on Jan 11, 2015 14:14:09 GMT
Thanks for the info, Michel - I didn't know this either. Do you have more info about the original collector, Overlaet?
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Post by mygos on Jan 11, 2015 15:05:30 GMT
Danny,
François-Guillaume Overlaet seems to be quite a mysterious character. To my knowledge he was studying all the material (nearly excusively the genus Cymothoe) at MRAC, and has not been a collector in Africa, but nothing much has been said about him.
I had F.-G. Overlaet manuscript about his unpublished Cymothoe revision, which I gave to my friend Steve Collins together with my collection.
If anyone has some more informations or photograph about this man, I would be more than happy to hear ?
Personnaly, I think he described to many seasonal forms that don't help the revision of this genus ...
A+, Michel
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Post by Adam Cotton on Jan 11, 2015 16:19:06 GMT
Superb specimen!
Michel, thanks for the information about the people involved. I saw you called Overlaet "François-Guillaume", but the label says G. F. Is there a reason why the initials are the other way round?
Adam.
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Post by mygos on Jan 11, 2015 17:02:35 GMT
Adam, it is curious, but for all his Cymothoe publications, his name was written F.-G. Overlaet.
I did not realize it was the other way round on Danny's label !, and I have no explanation.
Danny, I made some research and found that I made a mistake when I said he was not a collector in Africa ! I was wrong, and he collected specimens mainly in Shaba (formerly Katanga) in the 30's ...
A+, Michel
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Post by nomad on Jan 12, 2015 17:28:19 GMT
Michel, thank you for your very interesting informative reply and image.
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Post by cabintom on Jan 12, 2015 20:24:30 GMT
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Post by deliasfanatic on Jan 13, 2015 0:00:45 GMT
Tom - most of the difference is on the verso. I'll photograph a taboranus verso for comparison soon.
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Post by cabintom on Jan 13, 2015 5:55:41 GMT
I'll photograph a taboranus verso for comparison soon. Cool, thanks! |
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Post by Adam Cotton on Jan 13, 2015 9:12:38 GMT
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Post by deliasfanatic on Jan 13, 2015 14:26:20 GMT
Thanks for the links, Adam. I won't bother to post a taboranus photo since these are excellent. Tom, you'll see that the main differences are on the HW verso...even there, they're quite subtle.
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Post by cabintom on Jan 13, 2015 15:08:58 GMT
Ah yes, along the anal edge (I hope that the correct description). I had read elsewhere that the key difference between the species was that G. schaffgotschi has more extensive white markings on the FWs, which is not at all evident in any of the photos I've seen.
Thanks for the clarification!
EDIT:
I've looked at the photos some more and am back to a certain level of uncertainty. The photo posted in this thread - to me - resembles more the G. taboranus specimens pictured at the Albertine Rift Project.
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