steve
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Country: Australia
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Post by steve on Aug 9, 2016 22:54:48 GMT
Great photos Al !!
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Post by trehopr1 on Aug 10, 2016 5:27:00 GMT
Indeed great photos. You fellows in Australia sure have a nice selection of Lycaenids to chase after !
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Post by nomad on Aug 10, 2016 9:40:36 GMT
Certainly worth the wait, what superb Lycaenidae from down under. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by albugcatcher on Aug 18, 2016 1:18:32 GMT
This is a pair of Acrodipsas arcana or Black-veined Ant-blue
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Post by albugcatcher on Aug 18, 2016 2:06:54 GMT
This is a pair of Acrodipsas mortoni or the Brown Ant-blue
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Post by albugcatcher on Aug 18, 2016 2:17:05 GMT
Another rare species local and restricted to Iron Range on Cape York Peninsula, QLD. Hypochrysops cleon
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Post by albugcatcher on Aug 18, 2016 5:27:07 GMT
I forgot to mention that it was the great Entomologist Steve Johnson who discovered cleon on a single ridge in Iron Range many years ago... all specimens in Australian collections come from that very ridge and we have Steve to thank for that. I didn't know Steve personally however by all accounts he was one of the very best.
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Post by wollastoni on Aug 18, 2016 16:52:20 GMT
A gorgeous picture of Hypochrysops pythias drucei by Hiro Takenouchi.
I am sure some of you will like it !
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Post by mcheki on Aug 18, 2016 19:14:27 GMT
I think I have just been pipped at the post!!
I was going to ask if there was a photo of the undersides of your Hypochrysops cleon because the upperside reminded me of Iridana exquisita, these two males are from central Cameroon.
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Post by albugcatcher on Aug 18, 2016 23:58:15 GMT
WOW.... That photo of H. pythias is outstanding. To take such a superb image without disturbing the subject seems impossible.
mcheki... the underside of cleon is also very striking, next time i have the camera out i will take a shot of the underside.
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Post by africaone on Aug 19, 2016 6:03:46 GMT
I think I have just been pipped at the post!!
I was going to ask if there was a photo of the undersides of your Hypochrysops cleon because the upperside reminded me of Iridana exquisita, these two males are from central Cameroon.
I also noticed this but Iridana has a very special first instars (I bred 3 Iridana species) and the fundamental underside pattern is not similar. It seems to be just convergence.
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Post by wollastoni on Aug 24, 2016 15:51:06 GMT
Hypochrysops polycletus from West Papua, July 2016
Picture by Ian Lawson
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jedgar
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Post by jedgar on Aug 31, 2016 1:07:22 GMT
I don't think I can pick a favorite Lycaenid, but here's a photo I snapped of an ambush bug nymph devouring a Lycaenid I haven't yet come up with a positive i.d. on. What species of Lycaenid is it? Photo taken alongside Trail 2, Golden Eagle Ranch and Campground, front range of the Rocky Mountains near Colorado Springs. About 7,800 feet in altitude. Thanks for looking. Jim
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jedgar
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Post by jedgar on Aug 31, 2016 1:11:19 GMT
I see that one photo per post is the limit. Here's a photo that better shows the doomed Lycaenid in the Rockies I posted about earlier. Not sure of the species. I look forward to comments. Jim
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jhyatt
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Post by jhyatt on Aug 31, 2016 13:10:02 GMT
Wollastoni and others, I've been told that John Tennent and Chris Muller have a review of the genus Hypochrysops well in the works. Let's hope the book appears before too long - it's a beautiful genus! jh
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