zakvanloocke
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Post by zakvanloocke on Mar 5, 2012 12:21:30 GMT -8
Does anyone know what these two are from Jujuy, Argentina? Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you very much! Attachments:
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Post by zakvanloocke on Mar 5, 2012 12:21:54 GMT -8
Here's the second. Attachments:
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Post by colin12303 on Mar 6, 2012 7:35:06 GMT -8
The first one is Dirphiopsis schreiteri,i also think the second one is also just a form of this. I have collected at Callilegua a couple of years ago,when were you there? I have added a pic of one i caught at Cordoba Attachments:
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Post by zakvanloocke on Mar 6, 2012 10:50:34 GMT -8
Thanks for the info! After I posted these I figured the first one was schreiteri but I still had no clue what the second was. Does schreiteri have a form that gets that dark? As for when I was in Argentina, I received these specimens from a friend of mine, I've personally never been out of the USA. I'm only 20. My first foreign collecting trip will be this summer in Chiapas, Mexico from May-August. So when I get back this forum may be a bit flooded with some ID requests from me if I can't quite figure out what they are : )
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Post by colin12303 on Mar 6, 2012 11:21:59 GMT -8
There should be nothing else that looks like that there.
But to be fair it does look like the Bolivian endemic D. cochabambensis.
Calilegua is very close to the Bolivian border so who knows,
I have caught sats in Argentina that should not be there.
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Post by oehlkew on Mar 6, 2012 15:38:01 GMT -8
Both would likely be schreiteri, but there may be some new descriptions forthcoming due to DNA barcoding. I also would not rule out cochambambensis.
Bill Oehlke
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zakvanloocke
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Post by zakvanloocke on Mar 7, 2012 10:27:37 GMT -8
Thanks for the info gentlemen!
~Zak
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