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Post by cyane on Mar 27, 2013 4:40:57 GMT -8
lol Mr nomihoudai. Years ago I had the dubious pleasure of exchanging faxes with D'a. He ended up threatening to take me to court !
Hmmm Mr wollastoni, field entomologists or laboratory workers ? We could always honour our own and have "cotton" or "wills" lol
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Mar 27, 2013 1:15:21 GMT -8
Post by cyane on Mar 27, 2013 1:15:21 GMT -8
And for those who havent yet made "Darwin" status, maybe Wallace, Bates. Meek, Rothschild, etc etc lol
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Mar 26, 2013 22:59:15 GMT -8
Post by cyane on Mar 26, 2013 22:59:15 GMT -8
You're still a god as far as i'm concerned Adam ! lol
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Post by cyane on Mar 23, 2013 21:46:15 GMT -8
PS. So far as I know this is only the 3rd recorded specimen of Papilio tryoni. I've written a paper about it, yet to be published, in which I "prove" that its not a good species.
Ridgetop approx 2kms West of Kolomola Village Sothern Highlands Santa Isabel Is Solomon Islands approx 500m October 2003 D Hall Leg
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Post by cyane on Mar 23, 2013 21:01:20 GMT -8
I remember seeing Muller and Tennents paper on G kosii online. so I did a quick search on google for ' "c j muller" lepidoptera' and found quite a few results. The moerneri paper was not amongst them so I will have to ask Chis Muller if I can upload a copy here. (Chris is a personal friend, I have known him since he was 17 years old, but I wont embarrass him here with tales of some of his youthful escapades: Such as when he was lost in a remote wilderness area of Cape York Peninsula, and had to set off his epirb for a rescue by helicopter lol) Here are links to some of Chris' papers: A list of some of Chris' Papers: www.molecularecology.flinders.edu.au/molecular-ecology-lab/people/recent-graduates/chris-muller/A New Species of Graphium Scopoli (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) from the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea C.J. MÜLLER 1 AND W.J. TENNENT 2 1 (needs to be copied and pasted) australianmuseum.net.au/Uploads/Journals/17879/1303_complete[1].pdfPhylogenetics and biogeography of a spectacular Old World radiation of butterflies: the subtribe Mycalesina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrini) Ullasa Kodandaramaiah,1 David C Lees,2,3 Chris J Müller,4 Elizabeth Torres,5 K Praveen Karanth,6 and Niklas Wahlberg1,7 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898688/Palaeo island-affinities revisited – Biogeography and systematics of the Indo-Pacific genus Cethosia Fabricius (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790310003003A New Species of Cethosia and a New Subspecies of Delias (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae and Pieridae) from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea C.J. MÜLLER australianmuseum.net.au/Uploads/Journals/17886/1304_complete.pdfDelving into Delias Hübner (Lepidoptera: Pieridae): fine-scale biogeography, phylogenetics and systematics of the world's largest butterfly genus onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jbi.12040/abstract?systemMessage=Pay+Per+View+will+be+unavailable+for+upto+3+hours+from+06%3A00+EST+March+23rd+on+Wiley+Online+Library.+We+apologise+for+the+inconvenience&userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=David Hall Sydney, Australia
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Post by cyane on Mar 12, 2013 2:53:08 GMT -8
Hi Clark, good idea for a new section in insectnet. I made a new youtube account to upload a few Butterfly videos I have. This is the 1st I've uploaded so far, Polyura (pyrrhus) sempronius feeding at sap on a wattle tree here in Australia. Its hand held and a bit wobbly, but hopefully some of the members here will find it interesting. David Hall Australia Edit: I see it (youtube or proboards ?) also places a an ad here
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Post by cyane on Sept 6, 2012 3:27:33 GMT -8
I've visited the Solomon Islands on 3 occaisions and looked over a few hundred specimens of O victoriae, and like Laurie I have never seen a blue one. I have seen other very nice abberations though and purchased 2 male O allottei. Many years ago here in Australia an experienced collector showed me a blue specimen of O richmondia in his collection and told me to have a good look at it because I would never see another. The very next day I was out collecting with my little brother who was about 10yo at the time. I saw a perfectly blue O richmondia feeding on lantana. At the time my net was home made and had a broom stick for a handle. Try as I might I could not get that net any closer than about a foot away from that richmondia, even with my brother pushing me hard into the lantana. I had a very good look at it over a period of maybe a minute, and am quite sure it was all blue, and a good not worn specimen. I have never seen another like it even though I have reared many richmondia from ova. David Hall Sydney Australia
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Post by cyane on Jul 19, 2012 3:52:47 GMT -8
hyalophora would indeed have seen euphorion around Cairns. Some places I have seen O richmondia : Burleigh Heads National Park, Qld In a small swampy area behind the Coles New World car park at Nerang, Qld Along the Stanley River near Peachester, Qld Feeding on Latana flowers in a cow paddock alongside Broken Head Nature reserve, nsw. By the way, richmondia is protected in Qld but not in NSW (except for in National Parks), but I dont think you would get a CITES export permit unless the specimens come from an approved captive breeder. David Hall Sydney
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Post by cyane on May 24, 2012 4:07:14 GMT -8
A few years ago I was offered an "Ornithoptera allottei" similar to this. Hindwings of urvillianus and forewings of victoriae. I still have the pic somewhere if anyone is interested. Around the same time I was offered several different specimens of "gynandromorph" urvillianus. These were all obvious fakes as the abdomen was clearly of only one sex. One of my friends in the Solomons tried to relax one of these fakes so that better pics could be taken, but when he injected it with hot water the wings on one side fell off lol. In the last 10 years I have visited the Solomons on three occaisions, and purchased geniune allottei on two of these. David Hall Sydney, Australia
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Post by cyane on Mar 17, 2012 4:29:20 GMT -8
Nobody can give me this additional information? Even a vague idea, just to know? A female sold on ebay not so long ago : tinyurl.com/6squxtrRegards, David Hall Sydney Australia
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Post by cyane on Dec 20, 2011 1:41:24 GMT -8
In 2001 I went to the Solomon Islands to buy an Ornithoptera allottei. I sold it on and it ended up costing the buyer (including customs duties, insurance etc) Aus$21,000+ My profit was having my airfare paid for, about Aus$1500 at the time.
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Post by cyane on Dec 13, 2011 4:32:49 GMT -8
"And by the way,the wine that you drink,is a discovery of the ancient Greeks." Ummmm no. "Archaeological evidence suggests that the earliest known wine production occurred in Georgia around 8,000 BC"
Thanos, why do you advertise the P apollo that you sell on ebay as "PARNASSIUS GRAECUS " ? Also on ebay you state "I SEND WITHIN 2 BUSINESS DAYS from the receipt of your CLEARED PAYPAL payment" You can get a Greek CITES export permit in 2 days ?
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Post by cyane on Nov 15, 2011 4:09:04 GMT -8
I've seen and/or netted O richmondia in several locations over the years in Southern Queensland and Northern NSW. My first male I tempted down from the tree tops with a fake female that I had drawn on paper, cut out, and fluttered on the end of a stick. The male immediately came swooping down and I netted him. He was just about A1 and I was thrilled. I was licenced by the Australian authorities to breed and export O richmondia, as well as other Aus butterflies, but my licence ran out and I did not renew it. I had no problem breeding richmondia here in Sydney, well South of its natural range. My flight cage was only 2 mts by 2 1/2 mts by 2 mts high. I sometimes hand paired them and usually had fake flowers with sugar water besides real flowers. One female laid 120+ eggs. The pic is a male richmondia feeding at Pentas flowers in my flight cage. David Hall Sydney Attachments:
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