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Post by crino on Mar 15, 2011 5:48:07 GMT -8
Hi all,
does anybody know why the nominate race of Papilio dialis from China (Sichuan, Fujian, Guizhou...) is so rarely offered?
Is it seldom nowadays?
Thanks
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Post by Adam Cotton on Mar 15, 2011 10:10:04 GMT -8
A Chinese dealer sent me a series of males 2 years ago, and I got a few from another dealer at about the same time so they are occasionally available, although quality (and data) is always a problem with these Chinese sellers.
Papilio dialis is actually rather local in distribution, and also is a very short-lived species, so if the collector is not in the right place at the rigth time he won't catch it, or he'll just get ragged specimens.
Adam.
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Post by crino on Mar 15, 2011 10:56:03 GMT -8
Thanks very much Adam.
Yukio's book has so many pictures of P. dialis dialis but actually there is not much information available about it.
I've got doddsi and andronicus but I still miss dialis and also cataleucas from Hainan. Nowadays everything comes from China and I'm not able to get these 2... Well, I'll keep waiting patiently till I find a chinese offering them... Let's see what I get, because everytime I receive specimens from a chinese, there is some kind of trouble: bad quality, false species, missing data or the parcel went lost.
Ahhhh!!!! Achillides are driving me nuts...
Greetings,
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Post by jade on Mar 16, 2011 21:22:54 GMT -8
Thanks very much Adam. Yukio's book has so many pictures of P. dialis dialis but actually there is not much information available about it. I've got doddsi and andronicus but I still miss dialis If I am not mistaken, andronicus should read tatsuta. Jade.  |
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Post by Adam Cotton on Mar 16, 2011 23:29:54 GMT -8
If I am not mistaken, andronicus should read tatsuta. Jade. Yes that is correct, andronicus Fruhstorfer (1909) is a junior homonym of andronicus Ward (1871), an African species of Papilio. The valid name for the Taiwan ssp. of Papilio dialis is tatsuta Murayama (1970). Adam. |
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Post by panzerman on Mar 17, 2011 8:14:45 GMT -8
What about dialis schanus?
John
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Post by Adam Cotton on Mar 17, 2011 14:29:01 GMT -8
It's a synonym of dialis doddsi.
Adam.
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