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Post by cabintom on Sept 23, 2016 16:02:07 GMT
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Post by Adam Cotton on Sept 23, 2016 17:15:29 GMT
Actually, according to recent publications by Norio Nakamura there are several more species of Kallima in Thailand and the region, but most of them are only easily distinguishable on genitalia. There are characters to distinguish them on colour pattern, but these are not constant across the various subspecies of the same species. I haven't studied this work in detail, but it seems well researched. It will be interesting to see whether DNA analysis corroborates the morphological findings. Adam. PS. Here is a map of the distribution of 4 species of Kallima inachus group in SE Asia from Nakamura (2014): The citation is Nakamura, N. 2014. Distribution of Kallima inachus (Doyere,[1840]) and related species (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) in Indochina and adjacent regions with status alteration of Kallima inachus alicia Joicey & Talbot, 1921. Butterflies ( Teinopalpus), 66: 22-39.
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Post by mcheki on Sept 23, 2016 18:38:33 GMT
The subspecies is called cottrelli van Son, 1966, with type locality "Kamaila Forest Reserve, Chisamba", which according to Ackery et al., 1995 is in South-central Zambia. This place is not far north of Lusaka. Ackery et al., 1995 place DRC specimens under ssp. ophidicephalus with range "Eastern Kenya, Tanzania, including the extreme west, northern Zambia, and rarely Zaire." Upemba National Park is in southern DRC west of northern Zambia, so presumably this specimen is referable to the nominate subspecies. Adam. South RDc is more closely allied to Zambia , anyway the ssp must be judged regarding the imagos (I haven't see any cortrelli yet) more than locality espacially in this case as Katanga is often badly interpreted in biogeogrphic analysis. Even katanga itself can be divided in more than one biogeographic entity. I have only seen one photo of ssp: cottrelli and that is one of the plates in the Butterflies of Zambia book. I have compared africaone's photo with this and with my ssp: ophidecephalus and there is no doubt in my mind that the specimen is the nominate and not cottrelli.
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Post by nomad on Sept 24, 2016 6:38:10 GMT
Interesting that the early stages of Mallika jacksoni are unknown. I suppose it is named after a Jackson who may have discovered the butterfly or perhaps Sharpe dedicated it to him.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Sept 24, 2016 8:33:09 GMT
It is named after the collector of the type specimen "F. J. Jackson", as is Papilio jacksoni and Mylothris jacksoni.
Adam.
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Post by mcheki on Sept 24, 2016 17:49:08 GMT
I always thought that the famous collector of African butterflies was T.H.E. Jackson? Am I wrong?
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Post by deliasfanatic on Sept 24, 2016 18:46:51 GMT
Different Jackson.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2016 20:02:14 GMT
I have a T H E Jackson papilio Rex, from the 1930's I think
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2016 20:24:46 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2016 20:26:24 GMT
Had to resize image to put it on here.
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Post by nomad on Sept 25, 2016 8:17:10 GMT
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Post by nomad on Sept 25, 2016 8:28:24 GMT
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Post by Adam Cotton on Sept 25, 2016 12:14:10 GMT
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Post by Adam Cotton on Sept 25, 2016 14:37:24 GMT
I edited my post about SE Asian Kallima (2nd post down from top of this page) to include a distribution map from Nakamura (2014) showing the different species and subspecies in the inachus group according to his paper.
Adam.
PS. If anyone wants a copy I have a scan pdf of the paper I can e-mail, but it is over 11MB.
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Post by Paul K on Sept 25, 2016 15:59:37 GMT
Very interesting . According to the map the species I collected at Nang Rong waterfall could be K.alicia kishii, not as per older publication K.inachus siamensis. I wonder if there are description in the paper as to how to make proper identification or is it possible only by DNA check.
Paul
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