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Post by gauthier on Nov 7, 2013 5:29:14 GMT -8
Attachment DeletedHello all While classing my numerous pictures on my HD, I went on this one. I remember I belived to have take a picture of Mylothris ngazidja hight in the sky. But I was equiped with my 60mm on my EOS 60D, and the butterfly was very tiny in the picture. After a 10x crop. I just realize that it was a Graphium levassori! It was glidering at about 12 m high. Hope you will appreciate this species is still among us.
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Post by gauthier on Nov 7, 2013 5:31:49 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2013 7:53:12 GMT -8
magnificent, for certain one never to be seen in my collection.
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Post by teinopalpus on Nov 7, 2013 8:43:21 GMT -8
Very unique butterfly. Probably also never in my collection, but at least we still can have our "little" dreams. And of course it is good species is still present.
Jan
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Post by wollastoni on Nov 7, 2013 15:41:54 GMT -8
Just incredible ! Congrats !
When was it taken ?
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Post by nomad on Nov 7, 2013 22:10:22 GMT -8
Remarkable. Yes, more details of when you took the picture and the circumstances around it please.
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Post by gauthier on Nov 8, 2013 3:12:18 GMT -8
April 2013
750m Alt. no wind. The flight was not that one presume for a Graphium (glider)
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Post by chardelpar on Dec 10, 2013 14:51:06 GMT -8
Dear Gauthier; I suppose (?) you are French (or french speaker) but in case, I try english first. I am interested by your experiences in Comoro Islands. I went 4 times in the past, each time more than one month, and visited the four islands.This was long time ago. These travels were the base for a funistic study that was published in the Belgian paper LAMBILLIONEA between 1994 and 1996. In SEF Bulletin, (1991), I described (with R. Guilbot) P. epiphorbas praedicta that you shot feeding on flowers. I never caught nor see G. levassori but got 3 males 1 female from a local collector; in 1989. I keep now a reference collection of all Rhopalocera of comoros, + Sphingids and the (only) Saturnid that lives there (Antherina suraka comorana) Hoping your next answer Bernard PS : J'ai connu dans les années 80' Alain Gauthier, qui chassait alors avec Jean Marc Bousquet. S'agit-il d'un homonyme ? Bernard.turlin@wanadoo.fr |
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