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Post by Entomofou on Jan 24, 2012 17:12:11 GMT -8
Dear Colleagues, A friend of mine is looking for the names of these species. Thank's,  Vanderbergh : Guinée : forêt de Gouéla , monts Nimba : 00000 : 15/10/2008 Altitude : 500 m - Taille : 15 Réf. : 81373 Vanderbergh : Guinée : forêt de Gouéla , monts Nimba : 00000 : 15/10/2008 Altitude : NR - Taille : 30 Réf. : 81374Stéphane |
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Post by thanos on Jan 24, 2012 20:17:17 GMT -8
The many Lycaenids on the first photo are Tuxentius, possibly T.cretosus Butler,1876 .
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Post by thanos on Jan 24, 2012 20:20:26 GMT -8
And the Lycaenid next to the Pierid on the second photo, is an Uranothauma species, possibly U.falkensteini Dewitz,1879 .
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Post by thanos on Jan 24, 2012 20:30:15 GMT -8
The Pierid is a Mylothris species. Possibly M.poppea Cramer,1777 .
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Post by africaone on Jan 25, 2012 0:03:07 GMT -8
Pierid is Appias sylvia
numerous small lycaenid Tuxentius carana kontu
those +/- visible of the second picture is probably Uranothauma falkensteini
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Post by thanos on Jan 25, 2012 0:39:18 GMT -8
Yes,about Tuxentius you are right. It is carana kontu ,as this species occurs in Guinea(and Nigeria,Ghana etc). T.cretosus,although very similar,occurs in Kenya,Somalia,Ethiopia,Uganda,Senegal,Cameroon etc -but not Guinea- in different subspecies. This site is very useful in distributional terms for the African Rhopalocera: abdb-africa.org/species?ewtarget0=0c&spid=ggizEQUS083lh5AzuAQurw-- |
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Post by lepidofrance on Jan 25, 2012 4:25:51 GMT -8
The Pieridae (with open wings) is :
Appias sylvia Fabricius, 1775, male.
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Post by wollastoni on Jan 25, 2012 5:14:21 GMT -8
Yes it is Appias sylvia but it's true that this species really looks like a Mylothris and does not have angled FW that Appias generally have...
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Post by Entomofou on Jan 25, 2012 13:46:41 GMT -8
Thank's guys ! My friend is very happy !
Stéphane
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Post by thanos on Jan 25, 2012 21:30:39 GMT -8
Yeap Olivier, this confused me.
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