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Post by nomihoudai on Dec 15, 2013 13:16:59 GMT -8
Just stumbled upon this in my picture collection. The green tone is really unique.  |
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Post by homard on Dec 16, 2013 3:17:00 GMT -8
A real beauty! Rather unique green HW UNS for Tomares. But speaking of green UNS, my fave is the common Callophrys rubi - what a brilliant green it has got!  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2013 6:36:08 GMT -8
this species has always fascinated me, there seems to be a mix of Lycaena phlaeas and callophrys rubi, love it.
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Post by jensb on Dec 16, 2013 10:33:10 GMT -8
For the ones how like the callophrys. This is a unidentified species from iran. It looks like rubi though. Greets jens Attachment Deleted |
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Post by nomihoudai on Dec 16, 2013 10:36:02 GMT -8
You mean like this?     Doesn't look that different. @jens, I also bought an unidentified Callophrys from Iran on the insect fairs this year, I am not 100% sure but I think there is only C. rubi in that region. Mine looks also like C. rubi. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2013 10:48:44 GMT -8
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Post by homard on Dec 16, 2013 10:58:04 GMT -8
nomihoudai, that's genial!  As to Callophrys, in N.Iran might occurs C. paulae Pfeiffer, 1932. Of what little I know about this interesting group... Genitalia dissection and study is necessary anyway, for sure ID. |
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Post by rumina on Dec 17, 2013 6:31:51 GMT -8
hello to all of you and congratulations for the specimen and photographed for the "hybrid" equal in beauty to O. allotei. I personally think this butterfly species a very special and interesting. I have collected in Morocco (Higherm), in southern Spain (near Baza) and France (near Nice) and believe me it is really hard to see in flight; blends in with the ground impressively and zigzagging fly close to the ground. a nightmare ........
Talking about Tomares, I'm preparing a beautiful set of T. mauretanicus (to be honest, bought) and it is really beautiful as the Ballus, especially the female.
(A little particular, next year in March, however, I planned a trip to Morocco in February-March ............. ha, ha, ha, ...............).
have a nice Christmas, Rumina
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Post by nomihoudai on Dec 17, 2013 9:39:29 GMT -8
Thanks for the comments. Here are some more Tomares. I also should have pictures of T. mauretanicus but I can't find them  I have several hundred unedited pictures and can't remember when I took the pictures. Anyway, I will get a new chance for a picture next month when some specimen that I mounted come off board. Tomares nogelii female:  Tomares callimachus male, here I find the upper side (dorsal) more interesting:   |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2013 10:26:33 GMT -8
lovely stuff.
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Post by homard on Dec 17, 2013 11:10:47 GMT -8
Pretty critters!
Unfortunately my "acquintance" with Tomares was very brief. I collected the single specimen
of Callimachus (AFAIR) in '90 in Karatau Mts. (S. Kazahstan)....
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Post by rumina on Dec 18, 2013 6:26:17 GMT -8
Hi nomihoudai, the nogelii female is very impressive. are this dobrogensis subspecies or typicus range?
I think Tomares nogelii dobrogensis is one of the less well-known european butterflies.
you think a friend of mine has obtained a male from a woman who had made the holiday rentals in Dobrogea. Socket von hands. when you say .................. fortune
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Post by nomihoudai on Dec 18, 2013 9:07:25 GMT -8
Hello Rumina, I checked the locality and my books. The specimen comes from Nevsehir in Turkey. So if you go after the nomenclature as laid out in Bozano, Lycaenidae part III then the specimen is not Tomares nogelii but it is Tomares dobrogensis ssp. uighurica Koçak, Seven & Kemal, 2000. Here I show the distinctive dorsal side:  Tomares dobrogensis ssp. uighurica female. |
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Post by rumina on Dec 18, 2013 14:14:16 GMT -8
compliments nomihoudai, the exx is truly prepared flawlessly. do you have collected it or you bought it?
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Post by nomihoudai on Dec 18, 2013 14:22:14 GMT -8
It is not in my collection, it is in the natural history museum of Luxembourg. Many of my pictures just come from museum collections. This specimen was out of the collection of Werner Kraus that collected in the late 1980's and early 1990's. I don't know exactly his story but I think he retired at that time and then set out to collect every butterfly species in Europe. His collection was not complete, but nearly. Luckily I had access to the collection and have now A1 pictures of nearly every European Lycaenidae species there is, thanks to this man.
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I have several hundred unedited pictures and can't remember when I took the pictures. Anyway, I will get a new chance for a picture next month when some specimen that I mounted come off board.
