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Post by albugcatcher on Sept 2, 2016 9:14:40 GMT
Interesting photo jedgar. That bug is well camouflaged among the flower tips. In Australia we have a number of small spiders that hunt in the same way, camouflaged on the flower heads.
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Post by nomad on Sept 2, 2016 11:29:14 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 Looks like Strymon melinus See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_hairstreak
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Post by jedgar on Sept 2, 2016 13:53:12 GMT
Thanks allbugcatcher and nomad. I believe you are correct in your i.d. nomad.
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Post by jedgar on Sept 3, 2016 2:28:48 GMT
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Post by jedgar on Sept 9, 2016 22:28:46 GMT
O.K. My links are working and now I can share some photos I have taken of the amazing collection I'm working with at the May Natural history Museum near Colorado Springs. A lot of the insects in this collection are impossible to collect now. The earliest caught specimen in the collection that I've found so far is a Sphinx moth from Italy caught in 1888. Jim
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Post by albugcatcher on Sept 10, 2016 1:14:03 GMT
Very nice Lycaenids, i bet there is some rarities among those. I am surprised that this family doesn't get more exposure.
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Post by jedgar on Sept 10, 2016 2:10:31 GMT
I am very surprised that this amazing family owned collection doesn't get more attention as well. I have been taking a lot of photos as I work on the collection and will be posting same on this forum. Every day at work is like Christmas for me. Jim
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Post by jedgar on Sept 10, 2016 2:12:23 GMT
P.S. Today I ran across the oldest insect I've yet seen in the collection. A Sphingid moth caught in 1888 in Italy. Photos later. Jim
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Post by jhyatt on Sept 11, 2016 18:42:26 GMT
The rather unremarkable-looking Lycaenids in the photo below are my series of 5 male and 4 female Erora laeta. These were all taken by me in the mountains of eastern Tennessee and Kentucky between 1978 and 1986. E. laeta is perhaps the least-often encountered butterfly in the eastern US. It's essentially a northern species which extends down the Appalachians. A. B. Klots, in his 1951 Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Butterflies wrote: "Laeta is perhaps the greatest prize of northern collectors. It should be sought (but never expected) along rather shaded trails ... in Canadian Zone forest where beech trees occur. The butterflies alight on the bare ground..." Certainly the range is greater than Klots knew; I think it has even been taken in north Georgia and Alabama now. The late '70's and early '80's seemed to mark a population boom for laeta in the Appalachians; it's still around (I was present when one was taken [on bare ground!] in nearby VA by Leroy Koehn a couple of years ago) but is very rare. I used to have a longer series, but traded a few specimens away over the years. I once swapped an Erora laeta for a decades-old Schaus' swallowtail! It's hard for this not to be my favorite Lycaenid. Cheers, JH
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Post by wolf on Jul 28, 2018 16:48:06 GMT
Revamping this thread Remelana davisi noeli pair, from Mt. Halcon on Mindoro, Philippines This is Paruparo lumawigi mindorana male from Mt. Baco in Mindoro, Philippines. This was gifted to me from my friend Noel Mohagan. He told me this is only the second time he has gotten this sp from Mindoro, and first time from Mt. Baco. As far as i know and as he told me this sp was only described from Mt. Halcon earlier. He argued if this might be a new ssp. I've decided to ID it as ssp. mindorana which is the ssp described from Mt. Halcon. Not the best quality, but still a valuable specimen of an uncommon sp.
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