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Post by inopinatus on Jan 22, 2022 1:03:32 GMT -8
Interesting. Very exhaustive indeed.
I notice it mentions the term: Hallucinotype: “ The type of a taxon described while the author was under the influence of drugs. “
I guess it’s some king of joke..
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Post by inopinatus on Jan 4, 2022 4:04:50 GMT -8
This is truly fascinating stuff. Should deserve an IGnobel. There are so many level to analyse this! 1- first you think it is a very funny joke, smart and sophisticated. 2- then you realise that there is a philosophical aspect to it, questioning the added value of taxonomy especially in entomology, the Vanity in the act of categorising stuff 3- then looking deeper at the site you see the enormous amount of work involved. I suspect that what started as a joke evolved in something more serious. The person involved in it probably got hooked into this and in the end got serious in the hobby. 4- you realise there is a lot of literature about this site on the internet. It is said ( I have not fact-checked) that The classification was used in medical papers. Indeed some people were injured ingesting these and some recommendations were made to change the shape based on this website… So not so frivolous after all. www.theliftedbrow.com/liftedbrow/toward-a-taxonomy-of-the-plasticae-meeting-the?format=amp
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Post by inopinatus on Dec 5, 2014 12:10:37 GMT -8
I just want to share with you my experience of Italian post office I lived 4 years in Italy ( milan) few years ago. During this period I bought around 50 times leps on ebay from all aroung the world. Out of 50 packets, 2 were lost never found, 1 was blocked by customs ( it was only 1 single butterfly). for this single butterfly, I had to call a specialist in "ministero del ambiente" to help convince customs that the butterfliy was not protected and everything was regular. In the end I received it after paying a fee of around 60 euro to compensate for the cost of the inspection...
The two shipments that were lost were from very trustable dealers ( small value of the butterflies', I had bought before from them and did business with them since)
In comparison, in france , were I live now, I received around 100 packets, never had any problem.
Bottom line, packets can disappear.... If the value is significant, pay more to get a trackîg number.
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Post by inopinatus on Apr 1, 2014 16:22:52 GMT -8
Truly incredible. Nice reward for such a trip. How frequent was this species? Is is so rare even at the right time in the right spot?
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Post by inopinatus on Mar 24, 2014 12:57:35 GMT -8
Always difficult to know if they were genuire. Some with no label at all... At least two persons were convinced enough to bid as far.
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Post by inopinatus on Mar 24, 2014 12:25:01 GMT -8
No. lot 341 was including 4 specimens of Lycaena dispar dispar (2pairs). They were hidden in the lot.
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Post by inopinatus on Jan 30, 2013 14:25:31 GMT -8
Hi, Does anyone knows about other big insect auctions that would not be in Paris ( ouf couse I am thinking about big lots auctions... Not like e bay) I wonder why only French people have that and nothing in the US or Germany or Japan'..
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Post by inopinatus on Jan 10, 2012 15:34:29 GMT -8
well!
who knew tha Bryk was hunting parnassians somewhere else than in Museums? Interesting
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Post by inopinatus on Dec 25, 2011 13:44:40 GMT -8
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Post by inopinatus on Jul 18, 2011 15:19:02 GMT -8
For me Erebia Christi is a perfect exemple of why we should protects biotops (and not really over collecting).
This species, discovered in 1882 and described in 1890, has always been considered as very rare. But it has been consistently collected for almost 100 years in its very restricted biotope... It did not disappear. A specificity worth noting is that the footplant is very very abundant and its certain that this butterflies has some strange strict ecological needs that we do not really understand yet. Then in 1982 and 1983 a road is enlarged in Laggin Valley on the biotope of the main (know) population... the population disappeared... Ooops... we have a problem... Ok lets just solve the problem and destroy the thermometer ... and in 1985 Butterfly hunting was forbidden in Laggin valley... *
The thing that makes me sad is that the very same people that decided to destroy the biotope with the road, have probably a good conscience thinking they did solve the problem with the ban. And now it is much more difficult to follow the evolution of the population in Switzerland even if several new population have been discovered.
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Post by inopinatus on Apr 27, 2011 11:09:28 GMT -8
Incredible moth!!!
When the Alps subspecies was first described in 1922, the news of this discovery was such a shock that a lot a french people would not believe it was indeed a true “indigenus” species. How could everyone had missed it for so long??
The truth is that most of the time a lot of collectors tend to go to the same famous places where they maximise the chances to find a specific specimen...Even if I try not to, I also tend do the same. it is human after all.
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Post by inopinatus on Feb 4, 2011 15:32:41 GMT -8
Xavier, Are you aware of reliable observations more recent than 1993 cited by Descimon ?
They are always some rumors about that....
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Post by inopinatus on Feb 2, 2011 16:54:37 GMT -8
Yvan, You are absolutely right. I am personally convinced that the gene is still present in Southern Digne area but in a % too low to be detected when looking for it. Lets not forget that the capture of such a specimen would be illegal... The beauty of the Hardy-Weinberg Law applying too this recessive mutation is than you can not see the aberration for 20 years with the gene still present in the population... With several official observations in the 80s and another certified female in 1993... the gene is out there As always by far the main reason of this disparition is the sharp decrease of rumina populations due to the loss of their habitat. The mathematical laws of genetics shows that even if 100% of honnorati were always captured by collectors (which is quite impossible), it would take 50 years to divide by two the proportion of the gene in the population and therefore to divide by 4 the observation of honnorati homozygous. This decrease of honnorati was much much faster beetwen the yeard 1885 and 1910; PS: I enclose a picture of old specimens I have in collection (two females caught between 1900 and 1906 and one male caught in 1938 all from Digne) Attachments:
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Post by inopinatus on Jan 7, 2011 11:58:48 GMT -8
Does anyone know what the current legislation regarding collecting in Nepal is?
Of course I am thinking of collecting outside National Parks...
Regards Inopinatus
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Post by inopinatus on Jan 7, 2011 11:53:51 GMT -8
"Hi John - I have news on a specimen that was taken two years ago - but subject to verification but it appears there is a population. Problem is short stay visas and Bhutan does not allow ANY collecting. I will give the news to Adam also - sorry but having problems with the forum to sign in. Cheers Greg
Greg Watson "
Wow. This would be great news for a mythical lep. Greg , would it be possible to have more info on the circumstances of this re-discovery?
Has Bhutan been largely explored by entomologists during the past decades, or is it still some kind of terra incognita?
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