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Post by africaone on Oct 22, 2016 8:17:14 GMT
Thanks! I've been lax in picking up that publication...need to do so. here is the link to do ....
www.entomoafricana.org/
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Post by africaone on Oct 22, 2016 8:35:16 GMT
I still need to translate some of the text from the publications, but maybe Theirry will comment on the status. Fingers crossed that Tom will get a chance to study the species while he is in Africa, it is almost too good of an opportunity to pass up. He shouldn't have to drive more than a few hours to be in prime habitat! I have been informed by a reliable source that Craibia brevicaudata is/can be a host plant, in case somebody can get some livestock. It would be nice to finally see a breeding program that isn't solely centered around profit. I wish they were as common as Pieris rapae, maybe some crazy scientist will use CRISPR to make a hardy subspecies
Does anybody here know anything about vandenberghei? I've never seen one for sale, and there is virtually no information on the internet. They don't seem to have the same iridescence, but this could be due to the photography.
I signed the paper but I disagreed on the status of fournierae from Congo. It is a fact that the types of kigeziensis are atypical probably slightly aberant (with black underside markings well marked). At that time only 2-3 males from Kivu (now it seems to become the commonest) and only 6 or 7 from Uganda were known, and it is logical to consider kigeziensis and those from Kivu the same ssp because of biogeographical reasons and the habitus are quite similar despite very few from Uganda are knwon and types slightly aberant). If you compare series of the nominal one (Gabon, Cameroun, ...) and those from RD Congo area, you can detect constant small differences in the pattern. Add that the RD Congo barcode is slightly different from the nominal one. My opinion was that kigeziensis had to be kept for the RD Congo, RCA, Uganda and nominal for the Western part of Cameroun, Gabon and RP Congo. Other coauthors didn't agree and the majority opinion was choosen (not rigged election ). The most strange is that vandenberghei occupy high montane forest in Ruanda not far from the kigeziensis (that lives in same kind of forest) and it is completely different (it is at the limit of speciation) with an identical barcode. The identical barcode can be explained despite different habitus.
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Post by mcheki on Oct 22, 2016 16:19:38 GMT
If you compare series of the nominal one (Gabon, Cameroun, ...) and those from RD Congo area, you can detect constant small differences in the pattern. Add that the RD Congo barcode is slightly different from the nominal one. My opinion was that kigeziensis had to be kept for the RD Congo, RCA, Uganda and nominal for the Western part of Cameroun, Gabon and RP Congo. Other coauthors didn't agree and the majority opinion was choosen (not rigged election ).
As a means for comparison here is my previously pictured male from RDC against a male from Gabon. The latter is definitely the nominate subspecies and shows differences from the DRC specimen. I feel that they are different.
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Post by mcheki on Oct 22, 2016 16:42:57 GMT
Here are the underside pictures of the above specimens.
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Post by deliasfanatic on Oct 22, 2016 17:07:47 GMT
They do seem different, judging from only a few comparison specimens....my male is from Gabon and looks exactly like yours.
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Post by africaone on Oct 22, 2016 17:59:15 GMT
They do seem different, judging from only a few comparison specimens....my male is from Gabon and looks exactly like yours. what else
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Post by wollastoni on Oct 23, 2016 11:34:30 GMT
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Post by trehopr1 on Oct 24, 2016 3:45:22 GMT
Apparently, when the work is done on the right species it does pay ! This despite the fact that this particular repair job is only mediocre at best. There are true masters of this specialized art which simply do incredible work.
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