etibib
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Post by etibib on Aug 4, 2014 15:12:25 GMT -8
Hi I would like some help to identify this spécimens From Cameroon 160mm. w.s. Thank you   |
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Post by oehlkew on Aug 5, 2014 16:50:42 GMT -8
This moth does not seem to match any species known from Cameroon. It is one of the Pseudobunaea species of Saturniidae. If you did not collect it yourself, there is probably a recording error (location) by the dealer/ trader from whom you made the purchase/trade.
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Post by africaone on Aug 6, 2014 7:57:18 GMT -8
P. "alinda"
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etibib
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Post by etibib on Aug 6, 2014 14:07:13 GMT -8
Hi Nabokov
It seem like P.alinda but when look at the verso , it's not the same as the P.alinda.
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Post by africaone on Aug 6, 2014 14:33:35 GMT -8
it is extremely variable (as all the Pseudobunaea) with more or less extended patches and lines and color variation.
alinda probably groups a complex of species as shown by DNA analysis. It is extremely difficult to study.
Except a few characteristic species, all the others Pseudobunaea are quite impossible to identify. We just know that there many species involved (breeding and DNA analysis !) with a greater intraspecific variation than the interspecific one.
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etibib
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Post by etibib on Aug 6, 2014 15:24:21 GMT -8
Okay, thank you very much for the explanation of the possibility of different forms and color to the Pseudobunaea
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Post by africaone on Aug 7, 2014 1:03:09 GMT -8
;-)
my first contact with them was 32 years ago, and nothing progress except that we are sure today it is a complex of species and a real nightmare to study !
I just published two very characteristic new species (vingerhoedti and bjornstadi), another author published many more recently without any scientific approach or key (except a few obvious ones in tyrrhena group)
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