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Post by cabintom on Feb 23, 2019 15:11:33 GMT
11) Anthene wilsoni / maesseni
11/IV/2014 Adi, Ituri (3°24'N, 30°47'E) 1200m
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Post by africaone on Feb 24, 2019 10:13:33 GMT
I like very much the genus and I have some species to describe. I find them fascinating... I just can't identify any of them! Are you describing anything from Congo? Or all from further west? New mines are from Congo. I bred some in Cameroon, fascinating group exclusively living with ants (Camponotus, Myrmicaria, Pheidole, etc.) and eating Homoptera (of all kinds, Membracid, Jassid, etc.), some are trophallactic .... but quite species specific. A kind of summit in the coevolution. And you can find them everywhere (except desert) The only global works (exclusively systematic) existing is from Libert (in 3 parts, each a paper) very difficult to use as based on genitalia (he made around 800 ) and poorly pictured (It was at his beginnings). All of his groups seem unfortunetely not monophyletic. It is a very difficult genus with many species, only few being easy to recognise. Libert's work can be used as a good start (as usual) to study the genus. I started a Barcoding project on them (uncompleted because of money). preliminary results (around 100 barcodes covering around 24 sp) are very much interesting and helpful.
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Post by cabintom on Feb 24, 2019 16:14:14 GMT
Libert's work can be used as a good start (as usual) to study the genus. Yeah, I've referenced his work, but as you say the images are fairly poor. I've also asked him about a few of these specimens, but he's only ever answered with uncertainty and saying that a new revision is needed.
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Post by cabintom on Jun 10, 2019 11:30:43 GMT
12) Neurellipes onias (aberrant?)
In Libert's Anthene revision, there is no species with the verso orange patch like this one (black spot entirely enclosed by a white loop). Regarding these markings possibly separating this from N. onias, in pers. comm., Libert said,
I reviewed quite a number of specimens at ABRI and there weren't any like it.
Steve Collins also commented that he hasn't seen anything like this.
21/VII/2016 Nebobongo, Haut-Uele (2°27'10"N, 27°38'10"E) 750m
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Post by cabintom on Jun 10, 2019 11:38:32 GMT
13) Thermoniphas micylus
These are a good match with specimens found within the ABRI collection, but micylus is a W. African species...
9/I/2016 Near Quartier Rwambuzi, Bunia, Ituri, DRC (1°32'N, 30°16'E) 1275m
17/V/2016 Near Quartier Rwambuzi, Bunia, Ituri (1°32'35"N, 30°16'30"E) 1275m
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Post by cabintom on Jun 10, 2019 12:43:34 GMT
14) Falcuna sp.
Probably Falcuna orientalis, but if so, then what subspecies?
3/XII/2016 Near Mbogi, Ituri (1°41'55"N, 30°07'35"E) 1250m
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Post by cabintom on Jun 10, 2019 14:14:40 GMT
15) Pentila inconspicua (or) umangiana
I'm leaning towards the first species.
3/XII/2016 Near Mbogi, Ituri (1°41'55"N, 30°07'35"E) 1250m
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Post by cabintom on Oct 20, 2019 6:33:10 GMT
17) Toxochitona sp.
Possibly an aberrant T. gerda.
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Post by cabintom on Oct 20, 2019 7:01:35 GMT
18) Euphaedra sp. (cf. ravola)
23/VII/2016 Near Nebobongo, Haut-Uele (2°28'18"N, 27°38'11"E) 760m
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Post by valleysboyo on Apr 26, 2020 0:41:41 GMT
Hi again.
Hmm...this F appears less straightforward, at least initially.
Bizarrely, my first impression from the hw underside was phaethusa, but of course that is a western species, and not known to occur further east than Ghana (or possibly Togo), and anyway, the subapical bar is all wrong for "typical" phaethusa
My second "feeling" is ravola from the upperside, especially the colour and shape of the subapical bar, the shape and extent of the blue points in the hw margin, and the shape and extent of the blue fw inner marginal patch. It also has quite a "solid", "square", robust appearance overall, the fw being not very falcate and the hw have quite a full, rounded shape (cf for example, jolyana or janetta). The underside green colouration would be ok for ravola, though for ravola, this would be a well-marked individual.
I can't find any other described sp. currently known to occur in Haut-Uele that comes as close as ravola. I suppose at a push it could be preussiana, but to me preussiana doesn't seem to fit as well as ravola, and Hecq states that the blue of the fw inner marginal patch does not reach the base of the wing in preussiana.
So, like you, my money's on it being a ravola F.
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Post by cabintom on Apr 26, 2020 16:48:41 GMT
My second "feeling" is ravola from the upperside, especially the colour and shape of the subapical bar, the shape and extent of the blue points in the hw margin, and the shape and extent of the blue fw inner marginal patch. It also has quite a "solid", "square", robust appearance overall, the fw being not very falcate and the hw have quite a full, rounded shape (cf for example, jolyana or janetta). The underside green colouration would be ok for ravola, though for ravola, this would be a well-marked individual. I can't find any other described sp. currently known to occur in Haut-Uele that comes as close as ravola. I suppose at a push it could be preussiana, but to me preussiana doesn't seem to fit as well as ravola, and Hecq states that the blue of the fw inner marginal patch does not reach the base of the wing in preussiana. So, like you, my money's on it being a ravola F.
Thanks, & thanks for the detailed walk through of your reasoning. It's very helpful, and gives me reason to trust my own conclusions more.
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