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Post by bobw on Jul 28, 2019 8:33:53 GMT
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Post by bobw on Jul 28, 2019 8:44:29 GMT
I was wrong - 2 bidders already!
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Post by nomad on Jul 28, 2019 11:36:42 GMT
Seller information
hexapoda60 (3003 )
100% Positive feedback, which goes to show ebay ratings don't always mean much....and this comment " excellent seller, I recommend it! beautiful bugs"
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Post by Adam Cotton on Jul 28, 2019 12:23:56 GMT
Looks like globs of white glue near the base of the hindwing ... hmmm
Adam.
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Post by bobw on Jul 28, 2019 13:16:21 GMT
Why would anybody glue part of a forewing of a different species onto a hindwing? Surely anyone would notice this!
A couple of years ago I asked him a question for more detailed data on a specimen he listed on eBay. He responded that people who ask such questions are always very difficult and asked me not to bid on any of his auctions!
A friend of mine exchanged a specimen with him at a fair a couple of years ago, he's now listing it on eBay with different data to that it was supplied with!
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Post by Adam Cotton on Jul 28, 2019 14:15:33 GMT
Oh dear, yes, I hadn't noticed that the hindwing is actually part of a forewing of another species. I had assumed that it was a hindwing of something else. Shows how little I know about this particular group.
As for switching data on a specimen, that's not good at all.
Adam.
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Post by bobw on Jul 28, 2019 14:25:49 GMT
To be avoided!
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Post by deliasfanatic on Jul 28, 2019 17:44:07 GMT
Sadly, cut from the same cloth as the various "female" Graphium, Eurytides, and others that have suffered a sex change at the hands of the unscrupulous...
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Post by jmg on Aug 17, 2019 15:13:59 GMT
By the way, this butterfly (on eBay) is NOT a Heliconius but Lycorea halia (Hübner, 1816) (Danainae) at least regarding three wings. Looks like Lycorea halia discreta Haensch, 1909 from Brazil. The fourth wing (forewing) comes from an Ithomiinae ( Mechanitis or Melinaea sp., I would have to check knowing that these Ithomiinae show many individual forms). Both, the Danainae and the Ithomiinae are very common. Here is the nominal subspecies : Lycorea halia halia (Hübner, 1816). Montagne de Kaw, Patawa (french Guyane), February, 28, 2019.  And here the brazilian subspecies : Lycorea halia discreta Haensch, 1909. Sertao de Barra do Una (Sao Sebastiao, SP). February, 16, 2012  |
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