Post by mimstrel on Mar 26, 2013 20:51:41 GMT -8
I bought a few lots on eBay, and of course they mostly arrived without identification data - though I do have at least some amount of collection data for them. I display my Lepidoptera (and I've got some dragonflies that I'll be adding to them, as well) in double-glass frames, so you'll notice for instance that they're not pinned, they're glued... and therefore I don't worry so much about missing legs and such. We're all about the pretty wings in my house.
Anyways... though I'm trying to create sort of a "biodiversity" display, I'm an ornithologist. I can use a key to ID species... IF I can figure out what the terms in the key mean, and sadly when it comes to insects I'm completely in the dark. So I'm really hoping that some nice folks here will patiently give me a hand with species ID.
Attached (I hope) is the obverse of the first trio I've mounted. The top butterfly was identified as Curetis acuta. The other two were from a lot marked as collected in July 2012 in Xiaojing, Sichuan, China.
Anyways... though I'm trying to create sort of a "biodiversity" display, I'm an ornithologist. I can use a key to ID species... IF I can figure out what the terms in the key mean, and sadly when it comes to insects I'm completely in the dark. So I'm really hoping that some nice folks here will patiently give me a hand with species ID.
Attached (I hope) is the obverse of the first trio I've mounted. The top butterfly was identified as Curetis acuta. The other two were from a lot marked as collected in July 2012 in Xiaojing, Sichuan, China.
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