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Re: Adonis variant
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 11:24 pm
by Cotswold Cockney
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
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.
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....
Re: Adonis variant
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 7:21 pm
by Vince Massimo
Terrific work Em, thanks for the hard work and the headache I have now got!
In order to keep this thread alive, does anyone have any nice photos of variants that they wish to share?
Vince
Re: Adonis variant
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 7:26 pm
by KeynvorLogosenn
Vince M wrote:Terrific work Em, thanks for the hard work and the headache I have now got!
In order to keep this thread alive, does anyone have any nice photos of variants that they wish to share?
Vince
Thanks Vince, Sorry, I never got round to drawing the diagrams - coursework.. excuses excuses
And sorry for the headache!
There could be other varients that may be caused by different reasons, so it would be great to see them all
Em
Re: Adonis variant
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 7:52 pm
by Padfield
Vince M wrote:In order to keep this thread alive, does anyone have any nice photos of variants that they wish to share?
Blues provide an endless source of interesting variants. Here are first a large blue then an Escher's blue, both photographed (unfortunately) with a video camera in the days before I got a digital camera (and after my old SLR had died...).
Guy
Re: Adonis variant
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 8:02 pm
by KeynvorLogosenn
so erm Guy, what it different about them?
Re: Adonis variant
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 8:33 pm
by Padfield
In these butterflies the postdiscal spots are elongated radially to give quite a striking pattern.
Guy
Re: Adonis variant
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:08 pm
by KeynvorLogosenn
So then would this be an example of an aberration by the sounds of it?
Re: Adonis variant
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:29 pm
by Pete Eeles
padfield wrote:Vince M wrote:In order to keep this thread alive, does anyone have any nice photos of variants that they wish to share?
Blues provide an endless source of interesting variants. Here are first a large blue then an Escher's blue, both photographed (unfortunately) with a video camera in the days before I got a digital camera (and after my old SLR had died...).
Guy
Awesome images Guy - and well done for finding such rarities!Definitely brightened up my day (it's chucking it down here!).
Cheers,
- Pete