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Post by Paul K on Nov 9, 2018 4:04:45 GMT
As we are talking about Junonia and Kallima (on the green forum) I thought I would post the drawer with the specimens I collected in Thailand and Laos. Family: NymphalidaeSubfamily: NymphalinaeColumn 1 - Junonia orithya wallacei males, Peninsular Thailand, top specimen aberration. Column 2 - Junonia orithya wallacei females (blue and brown forms), top specimen: Junonia orithya ocyale-male, continental Thailand and Laos. Column 3 - Junonia lemonias lemonias, top 2 specimens: Junonia atlites atlites.
Column 4 - Junonia hierta hierta 3 from bottom males, 2 females. Top 5: Junonia almana almana.
Column 5 - Junonia iphita iphita. Top 2 specimens: Symbrenthia hypselis sinis.
Column 6 - Kaniska canace canace from the bottom 4 males, 1 female, Symbrenthia lilaea lilaea 3 males, 1 female. Column 7 - Doleschallia bisaltide pratipa 2 males, 2 females, peninsular Thailand, Doleschallia bisaltide continentalis: male and female, continental Thailand. Top specimen: Vanessa indica indica.
Column 8 - Kallima inachus siamensis 2 males, Kallima incognita: male, female, male.  |
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Post by trehopr1 on Nov 9, 2018 6:11:01 GMT
Wow, fantastic drawer and specimens (as always) Paul. Nice series of each and a whole lot of good fortune catching that many nice examples. Man, you sure have pulled together it seems a fairly comprehensive collection of the butterfly fauna over there in Thailand. Will any future visits focus more on the things you have not gotten yet or have few specimens of ? Would that be too great a task to imagine and (like me) you are content just finding what Mother nature provides you.
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Post by Paul K on Nov 9, 2018 14:34:02 GMT
Wow, fantastic drawer and specimens (as always) Paul. Nice series of each and a whole lot of good fortune catching that many nice examples. Man, you sure have pulled together it seems a fairly comprehensive collection of the butterfly fauna over there in Thailand. Will any future visits focus more on the things you have not gotten yet or have few specimens of ? Would that be too great a task to imagine and (like me) you are content just finding what Mother nature provides you. Thank you Trehopr. There are over 1200 species and 1800 subspecies in Thailand. There are also many more in Laos which are very hard to find or they don’t occur in Thailand. My collection includes about 400 species and 430 ssp. so there are yet a lot of butterflies to look for. I also collect moths and take simples of beetles so I will be busy for quite few years. Probably I would have to live 500+ to achieve the goal. As you said I take what Mother Nature has to offer but due to space limitation I cannot have very large series of one species therefor I tend to limit them to 6-10 specimen unless something is interesting to me or have good variation within the species. Now I finished spreading my papered butterflies and I am about to finish the moths ( 100 to go ) and then I can take a brief break. In the last two years I spread and respread all my specimens collected over the years. It was a huge task but I’m getting there. Paul |
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Post by trehopr1 on Nov 9, 2018 18:12:37 GMT
Very interesting Paul ! Yes, you will have enough time and species to find and collect for quite some time....
On a side note, how come you had to re-spread all your butterflies? Did you adopt a different style of preparing them resulting in an appearance more attractive to you? Curious.
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Post by Paul K on Nov 9, 2018 19:11:21 GMT
Very interesting Paul ! Yes, you will have enough time and species to find and collect for quite some time.... On a side note, how come you had to re-spread all your butterflies? Did you adopt a different style of preparing them resulting in an appearance more attractive to you? Curious. Well, many of my specimen had wings spring up a little, some more due to high humidity. I kept my collection in the basement and I suppose basements are not really great places to keep collection unless it is well insulated and dehumidifier runs most of the time. Now I am in apartment ( temporarily ) and the humidity rises sometimes in the summer to 75-77% but the wings seem to hold their position. Half of my old collection was spread on old rusted pins which were only available old days in Poland ( they were not rusted at that time 😜 ). It was impossible to remove rusted pin from the body by pushing it down so I had to relax all of them. While doing that I decided to change black enameled pins too to all stainless steel. All new laser printed labels are attached. It was a time to curate the collection for years to come. |
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Post by Paul K on Dec 14, 2018 19:36:15 GMT
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Post by crino on Jan 10, 2019 20:16:45 GMT
More southeastern asian butterflies  Attachments:
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Post by Adam Cotton on Jan 10, 2019 20:30:05 GMT
Very nice, but for the benefit of readers the specimens in the right half of the photo are Southeast Asian species (Papilio neumoegeni and P. blumei) and the left half are South Asian species (P. buddha and P. crino).
Adam.
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Post by crino on Jan 10, 2019 21:52:18 GMT
Very nice, but for the benefit of readers the specimens in the right half of the photo are Southeast Asian species ( Papilio neumoegeni and P. blumei) and the left half are South Asian species ( P. buddha and P. crino). Adam. Right Adam! Thank you and sorry  I tried to fix it. |
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Post by Adam Cotton on Jan 11, 2019 9:40:01 GMT
No need to apologise, they are superb specimens and I am sure people will be interested to see relatives from southern India.
Adam.
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Post by trehopr1 on Jan 12, 2019 0:26:38 GMT
Very nice specimens indeed crino !
That Buddha pair is especially nice. The emerald green color is unique and females are
particularly tough to get in fine condition. Not to mention that they tend to be quite expensive
for us mere mortal collectors...
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