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Post by trehopr1 on Oct 31, 2017 1:32:12 GMT
Some very unique Delias specimens there. I'm sure some tough ones to come across. Thanks for sharing....
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Post by wollastoni on Oct 31, 2017 8:03:37 GMT
This is a beautiful aberration of D. ellipsis (New Caledonia). I refer to it as the "feathered" aberration, formerly in the Aronheim collection. I don't know whether others like it exist. Normal males have a much narrower black HW band, which is simply a band without the pointed "feathers" radiating from it. A splendid specimen indeed ! Congrats. According to the Delias website, Bob Aronheim would have said to Les Day that he had a series of this ab, but I have never seen other specimens of it.
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Post by nomad on Oct 31, 2017 9:29:15 GMT
Oddly, the only specimens collected more recently were females; all males known are from Meek's type series. I believe John Tennent has taken a series of D. caliban satisbona on Goodenough Island recently which he mentioned in his recent paper. However, I am not sure his series placed in the BMNH included males.
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Post by nomad on Oct 31, 2017 10:15:57 GMT
I've not posted photo to our website for some months, due to the Photobucket fiasco and lack of time to get things sorted out. Finally, I uploaded nearly all of my old photos to Flickr today, and have replaced them in their proper places here in our forum. I'll take the opportunity to add a few new items while I'm at it. Many thanks for your time and effort. Certainly worth seeing again. fiasco sums up photobucket nicely. Marvellous additions to your collection.
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Post by wollastoni on Dec 2, 2017 16:39:28 GMT
A very rare new addition to my collection, a splendid female of Delias virgo from the Central Mountains of West Papua IMG_0530 by opequin, sur Flickr Present in very few collections.
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Post by deliasfanatic on Dec 2, 2017 18:16:51 GMT
Superb! Annoyingly, I lack a female myself
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Post by mosca1 on Feb 4, 2018 0:35:53 GMT
A few nice D. messalina orientalis
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Post by wollastoni on Apr 14, 2018 16:06:06 GMT
A nice female of Delias bagoe from New Ireland found today in Entomodena. [/url]
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Post by trehopr1 on Apr 14, 2018 19:15:19 GMT
Now there's a gem in my book! Spot on honey of a specimen. Gorgeous. One of my absolute favorite Delias species...
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Post by deliasfanatic on Apr 14, 2018 19:49:26 GMT
Now there's a gem in my book! Spot on honey of a specimen. Gorgeous. One of my absolute favorite Delias species... Agreed. It's a top condender, along with prouti, sandawanum, messalina, callista and several others as the "Beauty Prize" winner.
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Post by jmg on Apr 15, 2018 0:02:33 GMT
The problem when you love Delias butterflies and you live in Paris is that the nearest Delias is not "the girl next door"! Above all, if we have already done, pretty much, the Delias tour of Southeast Asia and that we dream of those of Papua! Especially for people like me who buy little and like to see the butterfly in its biotope!
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Post by nomad on Apr 15, 2018 7:29:03 GMT
Delias Bagoe, is without doubt a very beautiful butterfly. Must be amazing to see in the wild.
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Post by joachim on Jun 27, 2018 0:32:08 GMT
Is Bernard Turlin still alive and active? I met him in the 80´s but lost contact.
Joachim
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Post by mygos on Jun 27, 2018 6:12:34 GMT
As far as I know yes , but he is 40 years older now His postal adress is still the same ... A+, Michel
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Post by africaone on Jun 27, 2018 6:36:58 GMT
he comes each year at Juvisy and Frankfurt fairs ....
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