Share your favorite Lycaenidae !

[mantisboy]

Here is one puddling:

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[nomad]

Splendid and named by Nabokov.

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A nice female P Icarus taken in south Yorkshire in june. Peter, if all goes well I may have a genuine British boeticus to show in a few weeks, fingers crossed.

[wollastoni]

Very unique blue on that specimen.
I have seen many blue females, but I think never with that exact blue!
Congrats !

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There is a very variable colony where I live but no female has come close to this one.

[wolf]

Here's a few that i reared some years ago. In my area in Norway the blue form is much more common than the brown one. I've only seen 3 brown females in the last 6 years

[nomad]

I guess Polyommatus icarus is a favourite blue and brings back many happy early memories. This year blue females have been quite widespread in Southern England but the browner females are more usual. Don't forget that images of spread blues often darken the actual colour of the blue scales. Here are a few of my images of this nice butterfly.

[jhyatt]

I thought I'd show some of my Lycaenid collection.  The Lycaenids are housed (along with 2 cabinets holding skippers and Riodinids) in the row of short cabinets down the middle of the room.



Guess I'll have to put individual drawer photos in separate posts - it says I've reached the attachment limit here!

[jhyatt]

Here's part of a drawer of Palearctics, mostly Maculinea (I had to crop the photo to get it below 1 meg):
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[jhyatt]

These are nearctic Lycaenids.  Note the extinct Glaucopsyche xerces pair in the small unit tray, left of center.

[jhyatt]

This is a favorite species of mine - Bindahara meeki from Halmahera.  As I've mentioned elsewhere in the Forum, I'm not too concerned with specimen quality!

[jhyatt]

One of my Arhopala drawers.  Now there's a genus in need of revision!

[jhyatt]

Finally, here are some neotropicals, mostly self-collected.  Oh for a good book on neotropical Lycaenids!

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[trehopr1]

Thanks indeed jhyatt for showing us a glimpse of your marvelous Lycaenid holdings. Looks as though you've got quite an extensive collection of that family. Bravo ! I have to say that building up a collection like that in Europe is not so hard to believe. However, pulling togather a collection like that here in the U.S. is almost unheard of. Simply stunning for these parts. Out of sheer curiosity did you self collect (percentage-wise) much of your Lycaenid holdings or have you spent many years scouring the 4 corners of the earth to come up with your specimens?

[wollastoni]

jhyatt > see here how to include many pictures in your posts. collector-secret.proboards.com/thread/11/attach-picture

Splendid Bindahara meeki !!!