His wife also likes to take bug pics
[img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/djfmackenz ... erfly2.jpg[/img]
[img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/djfmackenz ... terfly.jpg[/img]
[img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/djfmackenz ... erfly3.jpg[/img]
[img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/djfmackenz ... erfly6.jpg[/img]
[img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/djfmackenz ... mantis.jpg[/img]
I think that the ID's are the same as the other spain thread, but I'm not sure about the blue
Dave
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Where were these taken, more precisely?
When I saw the ringlet I immediately thought 'montana', but this doesn't fly in Spain. Very strange - it's perfect for montana! Given that it's not, how about pronoe? I've never seen the Pyrenean form of this species - we have something quite different in the Alps - but in the books it looks very like this one. It's certainly not one of the species I've seen in the Pyrenees, but I always go in July, before pronoe flies.
The blue is most probably common blue and the other Satyrid looks like a rather weary meadow brown.
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When I saw the ringlet I immediately thought 'montana', but this doesn't fly in Spain. Very strange - it's perfect for montana! Given that it's not, how about pronoe? I've never seen the Pyrenean form of this species - we have something quite different in the Alps - but in the books it looks very like this one. It's certainly not one of the species I've seen in the Pyrenees, but I always go in July, before pronoe flies.
The blue is most probably common blue and the other Satyrid looks like a rather weary meadow brown.
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Well, I settle by default on pronoe, though as I say I have no experience of this form. It is one of the later Erebia to emerge and I miss it when I go to Spain - and the Swiss form is completely different.
Obviously, an underside would settle the question, but I don't suppose your friend's wife happens to have a picture of that?
V6GTO does a lot of watching in Spain - what does he think?
Guy
Obviously, an underside would settle the question, but I don't suppose your friend's wife happens to have a picture of that?
V6GTO does a lot of watching in Spain - what does he think?
Guy