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Post by michaelcarr on Jan 4, 2012 6:09:26 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2012 7:55:06 GMT -8
Mike this looks like papilio protesilaus but Adam will confirm, there are a few of these that look very similar.
Dunc
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Post by wingedwishes on Jan 4, 2012 8:19:32 GMT -8
Appears to be protesilaus to me as well. If it did not have the yellow at the base of the forewing I'd throw in Eurytides stenodesmus for debate.
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Post by aesacus on Jan 4, 2012 9:41:23 GMT -8
Protesilaus glaucolaus (Bates, 1864)
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Post by Adam Cotton on Jan 5, 2012 8:22:04 GMT -8
Eurytides (Protesilaus) glaucolaus leucas (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906). Note the giveaway shadow of FW band 2 showing through from the underside in space 2.
There is no real reason to separate Protesilaus from Eurytides as a genus (similarly with Mimoides which is just a mimetic Eurytides), DNA analysis suggests they are all very closely related (Simonsen et al. 2010), and it is best regarded as a subgenus.
Wingedwishes, the locality is totally wrong for stenodesmus, never mind the appearance of the specimen itself which is very different.
Adam.
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Post by wingedwishes on Jan 6, 2012 1:06:49 GMT -8
I know - I was only including it for some similarity and to cause an argument  |
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