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Post by dj on Apr 24, 2012 0:21:33 GMT -8
Hi Guys, saw this beauty while out yesterday, thought it looked like a spanish festoon but realised its not, any one know what it is? thanks Attachments:
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Post by bobw on Apr 24, 2012 0:38:05 GMT -8
Looks like Zerynthia polyxena.
Bob
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Post by thanos on Apr 24, 2012 0:50:47 GMT -8
Yeap definitely. And it's a male. Nice to check that they are out. We had a really long winter here (cold until very recently), as well last year, when I had gone to south C.Greece(usually the species are out earlier there than in N.Greece/Bulgaria) on April 22 (when at a locality there in normal years it is full of polyxena polymnia*, incl. the f. ochracea in good percentage) and even I met snow and just saw a single male. So, this year I delayed a bit my visit to there..,and I hope that in a few days I will be able to find a lot of specimens of this nice species, and also other interesting ones like Papilio alexanor atticus etc  . [*Nardelli and Hirschfeld (2002) synonymized ssp. thusnelda Fruhstorfer, 1908 (type locality: C.Greece;Thessalia) with ssp. polymnia Millière, 1880 (type locality: C.Greece;Euboea, in Sterea Ellas), so the population of that locality in south C.Greece(in Sterea Ellas), where I collect the species, should belong to polymnia]. Your subspecies in Bulgaria [according to Nardelli and Hirschfeld (2002)] is carmenae Sabariego and Martinez, 1991. Thanos |
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Post by Adam Cotton on Apr 24, 2012 6:06:08 GMT -8
The latest supplement volume of the Bauer & Frankenbach Butterflies of the World series, currently in press, covers Parnassiinae (excluding Parnassius at the species level), and in this work Bollino & Racheli synonymize carmenae with nominate polyxena, but polymnia is still treated as a separate subspecies.
In case you are wondering how I know about the contents of an unpublished book, I spent the past few months editing the text ;D, and just completed the work about a month ago, so it should be published quite soon.
Adam.
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Post by dj on Apr 24, 2012 12:07:34 GMT -8
Thanks Guys, brilliant as usual.
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Post by thanos on Apr 25, 2012 1:47:40 GMT -8
Thanks Adam for this update.
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