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Post by Paul K on Apr 10, 2020 18:29:45 GMT
Drupadia ravindra mooreiCommon subspecies across peninsular Thailand can be found deep in the forest near streams.
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Post by Paul K on Apr 10, 2020 19:06:17 GMT
Catapaecilma subochreaRare species know only from few locations in Thailand.
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Post by Paul K on Apr 10, 2020 19:10:01 GMT
Rapala iarbus iarbusCommon and widespread species thru out Indochina. top male, bottom female
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Post by Adam Cotton on Apr 10, 2020 19:24:54 GMT
Beautiful. So what are they? I can't see the photo, and if I open the link in a new tab I get "i.lensdump.com uses an unsupported protocol." I have to assume that larrycurlymoe is correct. Adam.
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Post by jhyatt on Apr 10, 2020 21:08:36 GMT
Wonderful material, Paul. And that's a great story, Chuck! Your tale for some reason reminded me that the first Erora laeta I ever took, I pulled still alive from a roadside spider web. Pre-caught bus are nice to find!
Thanks for sharing,
jh
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Post by jshuey on Apr 10, 2020 21:09:48 GMT
Here are two shots of a genus that many people ignore - Calycopis. I find them fascinating! As some of you know, I've been working for many years trying to understand the fauna of Belize, and there are 13 species known from the country. Four of these cannot be easily IDed in the field and two of these are dirt common (drusilla and orgio) while two are quite rare (isobeon and quitana). For the first two species - you can only separate the males once spread (the upper left unit tray are all the un-IDed females). Hence, our motto has always been, "if it flies, it dies" with respect to this genus. i.imgur.com/q41wAd7.jpgi.imgur.com/uZlZIL3.jpg
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Post by wolf on Apr 11, 2020 8:31:38 GMT
Paruparo lumawigi mindorana from Mindoro Isl in The Philippines. This was gifted to me by my good friend Noel Mohagan. He had a handful of specimens which he had gotten from Mt. Baco. He told me he had never seen this species from Mt. Baco before, and only seen it once before from Mt. Halcon. So i'd like to think this is a rather scarce species/subspieces.
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Post by larrycurlymoe on Apr 11, 2020 14:46:04 GMT
jshuey, Your Calycopis trays are very impressive. C. isobeon is not rare in my area (East TX, USA). It often flies alongside C. cecrops, which looks very similar.
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Post by trehopr1 on Apr 11, 2020 18:02:51 GMT
Delightful story indeed Chuck ! I always enjoy personal experiance stories. I try every now and then to impart some of my own experiances into my threads.
Paul, I especially like those 2 Ancema species and that rust-colored Rapala species as well. Those are all "dandies"to be sure... You were very fortunate to get a (pair) of Rapala iarbus.
Jshuey, a most impressive research collection. I like the unit tray system of compartmentalization; I use it for my Membracidae portion of my collection.😱 However, it has its limits in a personal collection when things get much bigger than a Colias butterfly. So, for everybody else I prefer standard full sheet platazote drawers.👍
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Post by trehopr1 on Apr 11, 2020 18:34:16 GMT
This has certainly turned into a popular thread. I do like the subject matter; although hairstreaks are a rather meager occurrence in my own personal collection. I have rarely encountered them in my life whilst collecting or as objects of purchase (collections). I think I may have all of 10 or 12 in total...
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Post by trehopr1 on Apr 11, 2020 18:39:36 GMT
Here, is a specimen that I have which has the name Thecla polybe on its pin label. The data says Jalapa but, I cannot make out the country due to lousy handwriting. Acquired from a collection being parted out a few years back...
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Post by trehopr1 on Apr 11, 2020 19:01:23 GMT
Looking thru my Bolivian material last night I was re-acquainted with a hairstreak capture I had made whilst there in 1989. Collected near Puente Villa Bolivia on May.22.1989 (afternoon)/net sweep I have no idea as to the genus or species but, it sure is a pretty little number. I will show both sides in case someone recognizes this one. It's the only one which I remember seeing ! I remember whilst spreading this little gem that the wings seemed to have their "tension" limits as to how high they would allow me to raise them without possible damage so, when I felt (that was it ) I stopped and proceeded with the rest of the specimen. Better safe than sorry... I dislike working with "papered" small fry !
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Post by jshuey on Apr 11, 2020 19:36:34 GMT
Looking thru my Bolivian material last night I was re-acquainted with a hairstreak capture I had made whilst there in 1989. Collected near Puente Villa Bolivia on May.22.1989 (afternoon)/net sweep I have no idea as to the genus or species but, it sure is a pretty little number. I will show both sides in case someone recognizes this one. It's the only one which I remember seeing ! your bug is Panthiades phaleros - always a great catch and never common. john
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Post by trehopr1 on Apr 11, 2020 19:43:22 GMT
Thank You very much John for your expertise. I always greatly appreciate whatever identifications I can get !
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Post by jshuey on Apr 11, 2020 20:28:47 GMT
jshuey, Your Calycopis trays are very impressive. C. isobeon is not rare in my area (East TX, USA). It often flies alongside C. cecrops, which looks very similar. So the irony is, that people send me photos of "isobeon" all the time from Belize. Of course, who knows what those photos really are, but based on my experience, probably not that species. But that seems to be the "go to ID" for people who know isobeon from Texas and northern Mexico. There was a paper published a few years back that noted that isobeon was really rare in Honduras, found at higher elevations. So I know it really should be in Belize somewhere - right? This is one of the reasons I collect a few of these bugs at every spot we encounter them. A few years back, Nick Grishin wanted some Calycopis quitana for genetic analysis. So I sent him "all three" of the similar species - quintana, bactra and drussila. Plus I added some problems bugs, including one we called "gigantor" in the field because it was noticeably larger. "Gigantor" was fairly common on top of Baldy Beacon when we were there once, its an odd grassland ridge-line that abuts rainforest in central Belize. After running the DNA, nick informed me that "gigantor" was isobeon, as were two of the females I sent his way (the photo is of the unit tray I mailed to him for analysis - I've circled the three isobeon specimens). So Nick, not I, discovered isobeon in Belize! Nick's paper is here www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5310595/John
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