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Post by bobw on May 22, 2020 4:58:54 GMT -8
It's interesting to see from the M. hecuba video that even living specimens of Morpho get greased!
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Post by Paul K on May 22, 2020 5:36:21 GMT -8
It's interesting to see from the M. hecuba video that even living specimens of Morpho get greased! Bob, I watched video two times and I haven’t noticed any grease?
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Post by nomihoudai on May 22, 2020 5:38:46 GMT -8
The hind wing seems broken, therefore it sometimes shimmers darker and looks greased. That's my impression.
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Post by lepidofrance on May 22, 2020 6:37:25 GMT -8
As far as I know, Morpho hecuba does not grease! (I never removed the hecuba's abdomen and they did not grease). The copy of the video survived the First World War and is indeed very damaged. It is especially marcus, rhetenor and menelaus which grease, even also eugenia. And I don't remember meeting any greased live specimens.
M. menelaus and M. rhetenor in Patawa, december 2018: Morpho telemachus metellus (Cramer, 1779), ♂. Montagne de Kaw, D6 près de Camp Caïmans, 13 décembre 2018.
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Post by bobw on May 22, 2020 9:26:37 GMT -8
I thought it looked greased near the anal angle of the hindwing but maybe Nomihoudai is right and it just appears that way due to the wing being broken.
I've certainly had males of hecuba get very badly greased, maybe more than any other species of Morpho, especially ssp. werneri.
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Post by lepidofrance on May 23, 2020 1:41:02 GMT -8
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