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Post by deliasfanatic on Feb 20, 2016 6:31:43 GMT
Thanks, I've checked and my roepkei are all like the top male specimen above. Rich It's by far the most common. I have 15-20 male roepkei and all are like the top specimen of the 3 males that I show, except the lower two with the white markings. I've only seen these 2 females, so I don't know how common the white markings are in them.
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Post by nomad on Feb 20, 2016 8:31:51 GMT
Is it not just the simple fact that taxonomists have confused this issue and there is just one mountain species. They may all belong to one taxon Delias mira Rothschild, 1904 and therefore Delias roepkei Sanford & Bennett, 1955, is just a synonym and therefore an invalid name.
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Post by Admin on Feb 20, 2016 9:07:53 GMT
Yes they are all various ssp of Delias mira, as explained in my post below
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Post by nomad on Feb 20, 2016 9:40:04 GMT
I again mention this because this species was still be referred to here as Delias roepkei. I guess those cabinet labels will now be changed by those that have specimens of this species?. I would not be surprised if those that are not into Delias, are not just a little bit confused by now.
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Post by deliasfanatic on Feb 20, 2016 14:25:49 GMT
Is it not just the simple fact that taxonomists have confused this issue and there is just one mountain species. They may all belong to one taxon Delias mira Rothschild, 1904 and therefore Delias roepkei Sanford & Bennett, 1955, is just a synonym and therefore an invalid name. It's not a synonym because they're definitely different taxa (i.e. mira mira is not the same as mira roepkei), but they're all subspecies of mira.
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Post by nomad on Feb 20, 2016 14:44:53 GMT
Is it not just the simple fact that taxonomists have confused this issue and there is just one mountain species. They may all belong to one taxon Delias mira Rothschild, 1904 and therefore Delias roepkei Sanford & Bennett, 1955, is just a synonym and therefore an invalid name. It's not a synonym because they're definitely different taxa (i.e. mira mira is not the same as mira roepkei), but they're all subspecies of mira. I meant that the species Delias roepkei is a synonym of the species Delias mira. I know that the different subspecies, probably geographical races are different taxons of D. mira
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Post by nomad on Feb 20, 2016 15:35:57 GMT
I see now that the reference were to Delias mira roepkei . Darn it, I was getting confused. However, at least now we have a clarification of the situation with this species but I am not sure everyone agrees we it.
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Post by wollastoni on Feb 21, 2016 22:06:34 GMT
OK here are 2 of my Delias mira cieko, the first one being the rare C form and the second a classic D form.
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