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Post by lepidofrance on Apr 5, 2013 8:56:29 GMT -8
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Post by nomad on Apr 5, 2013 22:52:44 GMT -8
 Olivier. Very good detective work to track down the holotype specimen of this rare and beautiful day-flying moth species. A nice story and interesting post. Peter.
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Post by nomihoudai on Apr 6, 2013 2:00:08 GMT -8
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Post by lepidofrance on Apr 6, 2013 13:23:17 GMT -8
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Post by mygos on Apr 7, 2013 7:13:19 GMT -8
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Post by lepidofrance on Apr 7, 2013 9:27:26 GMT -8
"but I have another set which is not binded" and much more cheaper ! Nevertheless, too expensive for me ...  |
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Post by jshuey on Apr 8, 2013 4:38:48 GMT -8
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Post by wollastoni on Apr 20, 2013 8:13:22 GMT -8
Thanks to Adam, I have learnt that the first Argyrolepidia palaea were collected by A.S. Meek.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Apr 20, 2013 10:15:30 GMT -8
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Post by wollastoni on Apr 20, 2013 10:27:19 GMT -8
Very useful link, it shows that more than one specimen were collected by Meek
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Post by wollastoni on May 8, 2013 13:56:48 GMT -8
Not rare but beautiful too, another day-flying moths I caught on the spot where I found the Argyrolepidia palaea. Milionia callima, Ennominae km 48, Pass Valley West Papua Leg & Coll Pequin Attachments:
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Post by wollastoni on Jun 21, 2013 7:35:06 GMT -8
Rob de Vos from Leiden Museum just wrote an article about my specimen of Argyrolepidia palaea and new Papuan species of Argyrolepidia. SUGAPA (Suara Serangga Papua), Volume 7(4): April - June 2013 Rob de Vos - Three new Agaristinae species and the first record of Argyrolepidia palaea from Papua, Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Agaristinae) You can order it here : www.papua-insects.nl/index/Hot%20news.htm |
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Post by nomad on Jun 21, 2013 10:27:44 GMT -8
Milionia callima, another beautiful Papuan moth species. A really nice specimen. It is really cool to be the second person to have found Argyrolepidia palaea in New Guinea. If Meek collected his three specimens of this rare species at high altitude at Owgarra at the head of the Aroa River in Papua New Guinea and you obtained your specimen in West Papua perhaps it will be found in the future between these two areas? Does your specimen differ in any way from those that were found by Meek, could your discovery be a new subspecies. |
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Post by wollastoni on Jun 21, 2013 12:43:31 GMT -8
Yes it must be a rare species but there are no reason we don't find him in other areas of the Central Mountains. We will see !
I have been waiting for pictures from the BMNH for 4 months now... It has been asked by the Leiden Museum... And still no answer from them...
It can be a new ssp but it would be unprofessional to describe it from one single specimen without knowing if the populations are really isolated or not.
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Olivier. Very good detective work to track down the holotype specimen of this rare and beautiful day-flying moth species. A nice story and interesting post.
