Post by leptraps on Jun 26, 2021 5:52:49 GMT -8
Way back in the early 1980's, I traded Lepidopteta with a collector in Toronto, Canada. He was somehow related to someone in the Canadian Government in foreign affairs and as a result spent sometime in Cuba. He was able collect and return to Canada with specimens.
He and his family visited Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. Ms Betty and I were living in Coral Springs, Florida at the time (1983) and we met them for dinner one evening near Sarasota. He gave me a box with about 50 specimens from Cuba.
When I returned home they went into my freezer, and there they remaind until last week when the freezer finally died. I then found the box of Cuban Lepidoptera.
There were four (4) specimens of Heraclides oxynius. I placed them along with several specimens of Heraclides aristodemus temenes in my relaxer. I have Heraclides aristodemus ponceanus from Florida that I collected in the late 1960's.
I also placed several specimens of Phoebis philea and Urbanus dorantes(?). It has been many years since I have mounted old papered specimens.
He and his family visited Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. Ms Betty and I were living in Coral Springs, Florida at the time (1983) and we met them for dinner one evening near Sarasota. He gave me a box with about 50 specimens from Cuba.
When I returned home they went into my freezer, and there they remaind until last week when the freezer finally died. I then found the box of Cuban Lepidoptera.
There were four (4) specimens of Heraclides oxynius. I placed them along with several specimens of Heraclides aristodemus temenes in my relaxer. I have Heraclides aristodemus ponceanus from Florida that I collected in the late 1960's.
I also placed several specimens of Phoebis philea and Urbanus dorantes(?). It has been many years since I have mounted old papered specimens.
