Laurie Wills discovers the male of Tiradelphe schneideri

[Adam Cotton]

This Danaiine was only known from 2 females, and our interpid 'Indiana Jones' of the butterfly world has found the male. The paper was just published in Zootaxa, but is not open access.

If anyone wants a copy e-mail me and I can send one for personal use. My address is in my profile.

Adam.

[wollastoni]

Great news !

Congrats again Laurie !
Adam, would you please email me the paper ?

Thanks a lot

[wollastoni]

I have read the paper, thank you Adam !

It's more than the description of a male BTW as it seems to reshuffle what we thought about the genus Tiradelphe and the evolution path of the Danainae family.

[nomad]

Great find, especially as the previous 1996 expedition in search of this rare butterfly failed to capture the male.