Well spotted ~ with some of these sexual 'mosaics' mixes, the genitalia is often malformed or incomplete and that would appear to be the case here.padfield wrote:
That second butterfly is very interesting indeed! The abdomen suggests it is a female, as does the spot on the upperside of the forewing.
But then again, the abdomen looks rather strange at the end.
Guy
Twenty odd years ago, I bred a perfect halved-gynandromorph of Limenitis populi ( Poplar Admiral) and the tip of the abdomen is quite odd literally. There is only ONE clasper ~ bit like trying to clap one~handed....
