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Post by trehopr1 on Apr 19, 2015 17:39:27 GMT
Outstanding effort on your behalf Michel in allowing us to all feel as though we were there ! ! THANKYOU very much....
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Post by mygos on Apr 19, 2015 17:57:37 GMT
You are very wellcome Trehopr1, and it was easy for me as I was there as a tourist because I was not looking for anything apart from an eventual old book ! Unfortunately no good book for me apart from 3 fascicules of "Etudes d'entomologie" by Charles Oberthur, but one had uncolored plates as well as being in very worn condition, and then I realized that the plates of the 2 other ones very photocopies ... I am just sorry for the Coleoptera collectors, as I know nothing about them, and therefore I do not know which are the interesging boxes to photograph A+, Michel
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Post by mygos on Apr 19, 2015 18:03:36 GMT
Thanks Michel It is probably the same pair as that one sold at drouot last year. Do You have photo in better quality? All the best, Michal Michal, I would be pleased to send you the original photo if you give me your email per PM and if you add your country below your avatar, as I always want to know who I am talking too on such a forum, and especially as you did not present yourself, but it is not too late A+, Michel
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Post by wollastoni on Apr 19, 2015 18:17:37 GMT
Michal is a good friend !
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Post by nomad on Apr 19, 2015 18:48:29 GMT
Super pictures Michel with a stunning range of specimens. Thank you for sharing them. Modena is a super fair. Nice to see a close up of the bilateral gynandromorph of Delias diaphana and interesting to see a range of naturally occurring aberrations, I especially like the Argynnis adippe specimen. Super range of Delias, I think Olivier might have to take a bigger box.
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Post by wollastoni on Apr 19, 2015 18:53:41 GMT
No it's my rule : when your box is full, it's high time to go home !
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2015 19:31:20 GMT
Superb pictures, what events this and the Paris fairs are, if only health and finances would permit me to go, but it's probably a good thing as I would be bankrupt for sure, the choice of specimens is amazing, good to see Olivier gorging on delias, if only the UK fairs could match these, and no when your box is full at an event like this it is time to find another box, and another, and another...................
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Post by trehopr1 on Apr 19, 2015 22:47:17 GMT
I agree wholeheartedly with dunc's view on what happens when your first box becomes full. Just find another fresh empty box and throw caution to the wind ! We only live once.... And let's remind Olivier that the next time he leaves gapping holes in those Delias boxes we would like to see a pinned label that states "Olivier was here" .
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Post by timmsyrj on Apr 20, 2015 7:50:49 GMT
Very nice photo's and great specimens.
Are they mass producing abberations on Sulawesi, I count 6 different black specimens of Graphium androcles, never mind the P.blumei and peranthus adamantius and the black Graphium eurypylus.
Mind you I am disappointed I never spotted a single specimen of Stichophthalma, was there any there?
And do all these Bhutanitis and Teinopalpus specimens on show come with permits, or have they been dropped by CITES as they are appearing everywhere nowadays?
Rich
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Post by mygos on Apr 20, 2015 9:10:23 GMT
Sorry Rich, but I did not pay special attention to Stichophthalma there About permits I guess 50 % have and 50% don't ... A+, Michel
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Post by wollastoni on Apr 20, 2015 9:12:48 GMT
Those Papilionidae are raised in Sulawesi in Puncak Palopo. That's why some aberrations pop-up from time to time.
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Post by africaone on Apr 20, 2015 10:18:08 GMT
left down corner of the photo with charaxeses, is it a pair of ch. velox? What was the price of lydiae pair? Yes Iroki, this is a pair of Ch. velox at 400 euros, but I have no price for the Ch. lydiae pair ! A+, Michel who was selling them ? it is a very nice box of African stuff
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Post by mygos on Apr 20, 2015 10:20:08 GMT
Honestly Thierry, I don't know, but definitely not somebody I am familiar with ...
A+, Michel
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Post by deliasfanatic on Apr 20, 2015 13:54:08 GMT
Those Papilionidae are raised in Sulawesi in Puncak Palopo. That's why some aberrations pop-up from time to time. True, but Graphium androcles isn't being bred, or females would be much more common. I've noticed that a lot of "black" androcles aberrations have popped up since last summer.
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Post by wollastoni on Apr 20, 2015 14:38:08 GMT
You must be right about androcles. When I was in Sulawesi, I have been impressed by the high number of Graphium males mud-puddling in Puncak Palopo (especially Graphium milon). Local collectors attract them with a dirty and wet red T-Shirt that they put on a rock in the river. This attracts hundreds of males. I guess locals have understood the high value of such aberrations and are know thoroughly looking for them among the numerous males. That's why we see more and more of them. photos from lepido-france
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