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- Wed Aug 07, 2024 7:28 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Butterflies of Var, Southern France
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Re: Butterflies of Var, Southern France
Hi Guy, for what it's worth: I would probably never ID any pyrgus with a high degree of certainty from its upperside alone, but that might just be a psychological issue :wink:, but in case of foulquieri, I would say that the following combination of characteritics are very strong pointers towards a ...
- Wed Aug 07, 2024 3:15 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Intraspecific variation pyrgus serratulae
- Replies: 7
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Re: Intraspecific variation pyrgus serratulae
I have updated the link in above mentioned post, as it did not work properly.
- Wed Aug 07, 2024 2:51 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Butterflies of the Mercantour - July 2024
- Replies: 8
- Views: 329
Re: Butterflies of the Mercantour - July 2024
CdlC = Col de la Cayolle
CdlB = Col de la Bonnette
CdV = Col de Vars
CdlB = Col de la Bonnette
CdV = Col de Vars
- Wed Aug 07, 2024 2:51 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Butterflies of the Mercantour - July 2024
- Replies: 8
- Views: 329
Re: Butterflies of the Mercantour - July 2024
Papilionidae 95. Scarce Swallowtail (Iphiclides podalirius) 96. Swallowtail (Papilio machaon) 97. Apollo (Parnassius apollo) – very very few No Small Apollo this year, despite repeated visits to quite reliable locations for this species at CdlC. Pierids 98. Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines) 99. B...
- Wed Aug 07, 2024 2:50 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Butterflies of the Mercantour - July 2024
- Replies: 8
- Views: 329
Re: Butterflies of the Mercantour - July 2024
Nymphalids – Aristocrats 62. Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae) 63. Comma (Polygonia c-album) 64. Southern White Admiral (Limenitis reducta) 65. Lesser Purple Emperor (Apatura ilia) – one near Le Lauzet-Ubaye 66. Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) Missed out on Painted Lady. One large Emperor near Ba...
- Wed Aug 07, 2024 2:49 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Butterflies of the Mercantour - July 2024
- Replies: 8
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Re: Butterflies of the Mercantour - July 2024
Nymphalids – Fritillaries 45. High Brown Fritillary (Argynnis adippe) 46. Dark Green Fritillary (Argynnis aglaja) – only very few during first week, becoming more regular during second week 47. Niobe Fritillary (Fabriciana niobe) – remarkably scarce 48. Silver Washed Fritillary (Argynnis paphia) – ...
- Wed Aug 07, 2024 2:48 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Butterflies of the Mercantour - July 2024
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Re: Butterflies of the Mercantour - July 2024
Coppers & Haistreaks 38. Purple-edged Copper (Lycaena hippothoe) 39. Sooty Copper (Lycaena tityrus) 40. Scarce Copper (Lycaena virgaureae) – only few 41. White-letter Hairstreak (Satyrium w-album) – several at reliable location near Barcelonnette 42. Blue-spot Hairstreak (Satyrium spini) – only...
- Wed Aug 07, 2024 2:47 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Butterflies of the Mercantour - July 2024
- Replies: 8
- Views: 329
Re: Butterflies of the Mercantour - July 2024
Lycaenids – Blues 16. Long-tailed Blue (Lampides boeticus) – one in Gap 17. Geranium Bronze (Cacyreus marshalli) – near Barcelonnette 18. Mountain Argus (Aricia artaxerxes) 19. Geranium Argus (Aricia eumedon) – abundant on still flowering geraniums 20. Silvery Argus (Aricia nicias) – only one at Cd...
- Wed Aug 07, 2024 2:46 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Butterflies of the Mercantour - July 2024
- Replies: 8
- Views: 329
Re: Butterflies of the Mercantour - July 2024
Species list 13 July to 26 July 2024 Hesperids 1. Tufted Marbled Skipper (Carcharodus flocciferus) 2. Dingy Skipper (Erynnis tages) 3. Large Skipper (Ochlodes sylvanus) 4. Large Grizzled Skipper (Pyrgus alveus) 5. Safflower Skipper (Pyrgus carthami) – small numbers 6. Southern Grizzled Skipper (Pyr...
- Mon Aug 05, 2024 10:37 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Intraspecific variation pyrgus serratulae
- Replies: 7
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Re: Intraspecific variation pyrgus serratulae
I have made a collection of my photographs of Pyrgys serratulae from the Ubaye region in SE France on the following website: https://vlinderszuidfransealpen.blogspot.com/2024/08/during-last-2-summer-holidays-with-my.html , depicting the upper- and underwings of 16 individuals. all photographs have b...
- Mon Aug 05, 2024 2:03 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Butterflies of the Mercantour - July 2024
- Replies: 8
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Butterflies of the Mercantour - July 2024
From July 13 to July 26, I spent my summer holiday with my family in the Ubaye region in the Alps of southeastern France. This is a valley between the Mercantour and the Queyras with easy access to butterfly hot spots like the Col de la Cayolle, Col de Vars and Col de la Bonnette. Previous 2 years w...
- Tue Jun 11, 2024 7:23 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Pyrgus ID
- Replies: 2
- Views: 143
Re: Pyrgus ID
Hi Guy, Thanks a lot for your valuable thoughts on this specimen. My earlier considerations can be summarised as follows: a. alveus + unh pattern +/- uph / upf pattern (too sparsely marked to be typical) +/- ground colour upperwing quite warm coloured, but wear and late afternoon sunlight might enha...
- Mon Jun 10, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Pyrgus ID
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Pyrgus ID
Hi all, Last summer I came accross this pyrgus. I photographed it on 25 July at 1700m altitude (northern slope) near Barcelonnette, Ubaye, France. It was a small pyrgus, although the lack of direct comparison with other pyrgus makes such a claim rather subjective. Sofar, I have left it unidentified ...
- Mon Jun 10, 2024 11:28 am
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Intraspecific variation pyrgus serratulae
- Replies: 7
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Re: Intraspecific variation pyrgus serratulae
Hi Roger, I've got some books with me. To cite a few sources: - Jacquier, Éléments d'identification des Pyrgus de France métropolitaine (2017): "pale spots weakly marked" [translated from French] - Lafranchis, Dagvlinders van Europa (2009): "uph without obvious pale markings" [tr...
- Thu Jun 06, 2024 10:30 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Intraspecific variation pyrgus serratulae
- Replies: 7
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Re: Intraspecific variation pyrgus serratulae
Thanks a lot for your feedback, Roger! Good to see, that you have choosen the other side ;-). Regarding the pyrgus from Jausiers, I should add that it flew at 2500m altitude and was noticeably tiny, as even the photo suggests. I can't recall the latter however from the Monieux specimen. I didn't exp...
- Wed Jun 05, 2024 7:56 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Intraspecific variation pyrgus serratulae
- Replies: 7
- Views: 468
Intraspecific variation pyrgus serratulae
Hi all, During the past 3 years I have spent together with my family some holidays in the south eastern part of France. During spring (late April or early May) I visited the Vaucluse and during summer I visited the Ubaye region of the French alps. Studying the variation in pyrgus species is there on...