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Post by exoticimports on Sept 13, 2021 11:39:59 GMT -8
Have a particularly wrecked specimen? Show it here! Here's my first: Papilio ulysses from Solomon Islands. The female I spotted (unbelievably) from 70 meters, hanging on the underside of a leaf at the start of a thunderstorm.  |
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Post by exoticimports on Sept 13, 2021 11:47:02 GMT -8
Here's another contender: the only Black Witch I've ever found up north.  |
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Post by Adam Cotton on Sept 13, 2021 12:24:07 GMT -8
I can't open your photos, but here's my example ... Papilio maraho female:  Adam. |
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Post by yorky on Sept 13, 2021 12:41:56 GMT -8
 Sone particularly woeful specimens of Satydium w album, Barnsley South Yorkshire |
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Post by nomihoudai on Sept 13, 2021 12:44:09 GMT -8
If you don't have a piece of wing glued to a piece of cardboard or a single leg in a vial of alcohol, how can you call yourself an entomologist?
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Post by yorky on Sept 13, 2021 13:01:43 GMT -8
 Yes it's knackered, but those of you who know what this is will know that it would still fetch a fortune if I were to sell it. It's also a BMNH specimen. |
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Post by Adam Cotton on Sept 13, 2021 13:17:02 GMT -8
What is the data for this exceptional specimen? It is hardly "knackered".
Adam.
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Post by exoticimports on Sept 13, 2021 13:32:02 GMT -8
So far Adam in for the win.
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Post by yorky on Sept 13, 2021 13:32:33 GMT -8
I'll take a picture of the label tomorrow Adam.
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Post by jshuey on Sept 13, 2021 15:13:52 GMT -8
Here is my entire series of Codatractus yucatanensis (bottom three bugs)- a really rare skipper endemic to the Yucatan. I know the Smithsonian does not have this species at all, and my bugs are all beat to hell. The top one is the only record from Belize, the bottom two are from Yucatan. The unit tray above is another tailed Codatractus - to show you everything that is missing! As an interesting aside, we had a hotel room on the 4th floor in Merida when I collected the 2 Yucatan bugs. I was drying the bugs in the room using the AC, and tiny little ants found them and hollowed them out almost entirely. The bodies are just hollow shells! John  |
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Post by exoticimports on Sept 13, 2021 15:40:50 GMT -8
Looks like the humble specimen of long tailed skipper (sans tails) I caught in FL when I was a kid- but I was ecstatic!
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Post by yorky on Sept 14, 2021 2:04:18 GMT -8
I can't open your photos, but here's my example ... Papilio maraho female: Adam. I know some vendors who would pass this off as having "minimal flight wear" |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2021 13:27:11 GMT -8
I’ve caught two of these in northern IL, two in eastern TN, and a bunch in AZ. This girl flew a lot of miles. Oddly, the other from IL was in much better shape.  |
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Post by bandrow on Oct 3, 2021 8:38:36 GMT -8
Hi All, I thought I'd better get some beetles represented here too! The first is my only specimen of Lissomelas flohri, a rare scarab related to the genus Cremastocheilus from Arizona. This is as much of the species as I've ever been able to find! Lissomelas flohriThis next one is the first "specimen" of Sphaenosthethus taslei that I collected off of the top of an ant nest many years ago... and the only representative of the species in my collection for several decades... Sphaenostethus elytraFinally - this is one of a few specimens of Sphaenostethus that I recently reared - so much nicer looking than my original!! Sphaenostethus tasleiCheers! Bandrow |
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Post by trehopr1 on Oct 3, 2021 8:52:58 GMT -8
Wow, Bandrow those sure are ant scraps !
But, at least a discerning scientist can tell from these that the species exist in those locations...
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