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Post by papilio28570 on Mar 7, 2012 13:06:23 GMT -8
Is anyone familiar with this species? I have also seen it spelled Eooxylides tharis. Anyway, I have one specimen of this species somewhere in my holdings and do not know where to begin to look for it. Any help appreciated and a picture would be worth a thousand words.
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Post by prillbug2 on Mar 7, 2012 13:33:55 GMT -8
Go to butterflies of Malaysia. There's a photo of it, there. It is Eooxylides.
Jeff Prill
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Post by papilio28570 on Mar 7, 2012 19:32:24 GMT -8
Thanks, Jeff. Amazing I could not find it with a Google search. Also, I found it in my collection with your help. Much appreciated.
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Post by ladobe on Mar 8, 2012 1:51:02 GMT -8
FWIW a Google search will usually find any bug by just searching the species name alone.
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Post by papilio28570 on Mar 8, 2012 6:41:32 GMT -8
Been there, done that, which is why I wrote "I could not find it with a Google search."
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vwman
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Post by vwman on Mar 8, 2012 9:00:58 GMT -8
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Post by prillbug2 on Mar 8, 2012 13:41:14 GMT -8
That's the one I was referring to. Congratulations, you did my work again.
Jeff Prill
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Post by Chris Grinter on Mar 8, 2012 14:00:50 GMT -8
vwman was just trying to help by illustrating how easy your "work" was - if Papilio didn't see these results perhaps he has a wonky setting that is preventing him from seeing that or something else is happening.
There are 7,150 results returned by Google for Eooxylides, congratulations Jeff on getting that done like a pro.
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Post by steve on Mar 8, 2012 15:00:32 GMT -8
vwman, that is an incredible website. Amazing photos
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Post by ladobe on Mar 8, 2012 18:15:31 GMT -8
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Post by nomihoudai on Mar 9, 2012 1:53:32 GMT -8
>With Google, "tharis" (species name alone, not genus) immediately brings up...
That depends if your Google knows that you like butterflies or if you have googled Eooxylides before.
The best thing always is to add the family to the search string, "tharis Lycaenidae" or when you don't know the family at least the order, "tharis Lepidoptera" and you should get it.
Google is building up a network upon searches you did in the past, the more butterfly related stuff you search with it the better results it will give you.
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Post by papilio28570 on Mar 10, 2012 16:17:43 GMT -8
WOW, this is nuts! When I searched either name before, all I got was one hit to a web site that was a long checklist of Asian species and no photos, even if I searched Images in Google. Now, all I get is one link to this thread and the original site does not show up. WTF?
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Post by papilio28570 on Mar 10, 2012 16:43:53 GMT -8
Hmm...I shut down and restarted my computer and now I get all the results everyone else reports. Plus my computer is a lot faster shifting between windows.
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Post by prillbug2 on Mar 10, 2012 16:46:08 GMT -8
Thorn's Insects has Eooxylides tharis from Borneo for sale.
Jeff Prill
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Post by ladobe on Mar 11, 2012 9:58:31 GMT -8
>With Google, "tharis" (species name alone, not genus) immediately brings up... That depends if your Google knows that you like butterflies or if you have googled Eooxylides before. The best thing always is to add the family to the search string, "tharis Lycaenidae" or when you don't know the family at least the order, "tharis Lepidoptera" and you should get it. Google is building up a network upon searches you did in the past, the more butterfly related stuff you search with it the better results it will give you. Doing more detailed searches like adding genus, higher taxonomy or even just "butterfly" to them will get targets more relative on top, however... my experience even when I first started using Google was that any species only name brought up all relative targets known to Google, both plant and animal (for those that have been used for both), the roots of the name itself and anything using that name (business, etc). Priority was the targets with the most previous hits, by anybody. Google does "learn", so in time may prioritize your searches based on your history using Google, AND those with the most hits on top, but you will still find exact targets of what you are specifically looking for pages down in Google. |
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