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- Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:08 am
- Forum: Links
- Topic: Southern Small White
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11271
Re: Southern Small White
Dear Roger, I certainly don't want to start a large discussion here and apologise if my first post appeared a bit too defending, I shouldn't have put it that strong maybe. Ofcourse every citizen science project has to cope with the quality of the data it gathers. I am fully aware of that (check this...
- Thu Mar 21, 2019 3:11 pm
- Forum: Links
- Topic: Southern Small White
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11271
Re: Southern Small White
Hi Roger, I don't know where your claim of misidentifications come from. I am a butterfly validator on a Belgian naturalist citizen science platform and I have described the expansion of P. mannii to the Low Countries and its possible drivers in this article here . In the article I also give some in...
- Tue Mar 05, 2019 4:42 pm
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: Greenwings: Montes Universales, Spain, 28 July - 4 August 2018
- Replies: 69
- Views: 22806
Re: Montes Universales, Spain, 28 July - 4 August 2018
Even Nabokov visited the area in the 1940's. Everyone with large interest in European butterflies should visit that region at least once!Matsukaze wrote:It has a long history of visiting entomologists:
https://archive.org/details/entomologis ... t/page/274
- Mon Feb 25, 2019 1:36 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Mannii or rapae?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1700
Re: Mannii or rapae?
Hi Guy, this is the upperside of the same individual (a male), typical moonshaped discal spot with outer edge of the spot concave (rounded in male P. rapae ), the discal spot wedged between and almost bursting out of vein 3 & 4 (much smaller in P. rapae ), with dusting along the veins from disca...
- Fri Feb 22, 2019 4:04 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Mannii or rapae?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1700
Re: Mannii or rapae?
I would say this is P. rapae , summer generation P. mannii would have much bolder discal frontwing markings and still have some more dusting on underside hindwing (although less obvious than in spring). But I do always favour to see upperside markings with this species pair. The feature of the forke...
- Thu Feb 14, 2019 4:06 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Georgia, Europe IDs
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1441
Re: Georgia, Europe IDs
Hi, I was in Georgia last summer to search for butterflies and it is a very challenging country to do so. It would help a bit if you could tell more or less at what location/height you made these observations. Your blues are in my opinion Lysandra corydonius , which replaces Chalkhill blue Lysandra ...
- Wed Aug 30, 2017 7:37 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Blog on western palearctic butterflies
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3316
Re: Blog on western palearctic butterflies
Late July - early August I spent three weeks in Romania. I have put a summary of our sightings in four episodes on my blog. Check it out here: http://westpalbutterflies.blogspot.be/2017/08/
Re: Lanzarote
Danaus plexippus is present on Lanzarote as well, see the article of Martin Gascoigne-Pees: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273738415_Butterflies_encountered_on_Lanzarote_and_Fuerteventura_between_7_January_and_11_March_2010_with_brief_bionomic_notes It was rather widespread in Fuerteventu...
- Sat Jan 07, 2017 11:45 am
- Forum: Speckled Wood
- Topic: Subspecies of Speckled Wood in Europe
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3330
Re: Subspecies of Speckled Wood in Europe
An interesting article on Pararge species can be found here: http://www.nymphalidae.net/Weingartneretal2006b.pdf Contrary to what might be expected from morphology, we have not discovered any indication that P. a. aegeria and P. a. tircis are separate evolutionary entities based on a mitochondrial g...
- Wed Nov 16, 2016 1:33 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Blog on western palearctic butterflies
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3316
Re: Blog on western palearctic butterflies
A new blogpost on orange skippers in NW Europe. Hope you enjoy:
http://westpalbutterflies.blogspot.be/2 ... urope.html
http://westpalbutterflies.blogspot.be/2 ... urope.html
- Fri Aug 26, 2016 1:41 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: ID for a clear-winged insect ?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 226
Re: ID for a clear-winged insect ?
My knowledge doesn't reach further than Myrmeleontidae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antlion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antlion
- Fri Aug 26, 2016 1:37 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Moths....mainly Burnets
- Replies: 5
- Views: 486
Re: Moths....mainly Burnets
First of all I want to stress that - apart from some exceptions - a great part of Zygaenidae are very difficult to determine in the field and certainly from just one picture as in lots of cases you need the abdomen pattern, hindwing pattern, shape of the wing, color of antennae and legs,... Some spe...
- Thu Aug 25, 2016 11:43 am
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Chalkhill Blue or Provence Chalkhill Blue
- Replies: 5
- Views: 525
Re: Chalkhill Blue or Provence Chalkhill Blue
FYI the monograph of Klaus Schurian on the subgenus Lysandra (in German and from 1989) can nowadays be found online:
http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Neue-Entomolo ... 1-0181.pdf
http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Neue-Entomolo ... 1-0181.pdf
- Thu Aug 11, 2016 9:27 am
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Picos de Europa
- Replies: 6
- Views: 962
Re: Picos de Europa
Unfortunately I haven't been in that region yet so can't give you much valuable information. You could use the nature observations website much used in the Netherlands and Belgium to find some locations: http://www.observation.org
- Wed Aug 10, 2016 8:43 am
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Mountain Alcon Blue
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1010
Re: Mountain Alcon Blue
I guess the authors could be interested to hear about your findings, David Nash of University of Copenhagen will probably be interested as well (see talk 11-1 of the future for butterflies congress last spring: http://vlindernet.nl/doc/future4butterf ... f_2016.pdf)
- Mon Aug 08, 2016 9:15 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Picos de Europa
- Replies: 6
- Views: 962
Re: Picos de Europa
I agree that early july would probably best to see Erebia palarica and Plebejus pyrenaicus, two of the main specialties of the region (with the first being endemic of NW-Spain).
- Mon Aug 08, 2016 9:04 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Mountain Alcon Blue
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1010
Re: Mountain Alcon Blue
In fact the initial description of "Maculinea rebeli" comes from a location above the height G. cruciata can be found and recent studies in Austria indicate Gentianella species to be the food plant of those populations, see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4023245/
- Sat Jul 16, 2016 12:29 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Blog on western palearctic butterflies
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3316
Re: Blog on western palearctic butterflies
Just before leaving for my next trip, I was able to finish my small report of my june trip to France. 4 episodes on my blog:
http://westpalbutterflies.blogspot.be/2 ... chive.html
http://westpalbutterflies.blogspot.be/2 ... chive.html
- Tue Jul 05, 2016 8:23 am
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Marbled White species on Lesvos
- Replies: 3
- Views: 408
Re: Marbled White species on Lesvos
Melanargia larissa is the only Melanargia species on Lesvos. Appendix 1b is the most recent published list on butterflies on Lesvos: http://www.phegea.org/Phegea/Appendices ... age_69.pdf
- Mon May 23, 2016 10:18 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Blog on western palearctic butterflies
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3316
Re: Blog on western palearctic butterflies
Last night I made a new post on one of the few remaining populations of Sooty copper in Flanders with some small thoughts on personal lifestyle and the influence on butterfly populations.
Hope you enjoy the pics:
http://westpalbutterflies.blogspot.be/2 ... nders.html
Hope you enjoy the pics:
http://westpalbutterflies.blogspot.be/2 ... nders.html