syrmoptera melanomitra is a butterfly in the lycaenidae family .

it is found in cameroon , gabon , the republic of the congo and the democratic republic of the congo .

syrmoptera melanomitra

type - species : syrmoptera melanomitra karsch , 1895 . ent . nachr . berlin 21 : 308 . [ bhl ]
genus : syrmoptera karsch , 1895 . ent . nachr . berlin 21 ( 19 / 20 ) : 308 . [ bhl ]
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they were amazing . . . . . . . last and latest bug hunt of the year . the latest they were out was in november 2011 . . . . . . felt like spring that day . today it felt like spring yet again and i was greatly awarded with all sorts of birds and assorted creepy crawlies . . . . . . . and a surprise from my lepidopteran friends .
i had originally gone to the park to look for cocoons of various moths . . . . . and maybe butterfly chrysalids or overwintering
and while i didn ' t find any of those . . . . . . . . . i did find something of a mystery lodged in one of the normally bug infested logs .
i wonder what exactly made this . . . . . . so many many possibilities .
it was discussed via facebook & twitter and the possibilities are endless . . . . .
to name a few of what it could be . . . . . . . . notodontids of the genera
i haven ' t seen here in any shape or form nor have i seen prionoxystus robiniae or any of the other 3 eastern n . american cossidae . the pupa wasn ' t
large
by any means . . . . . . but it wasn ' t
small
either . medium ? and skinny . . . . but not too skinny .
providing the weather is nice again after the snow we ' re supposed to get in a few days . i ' ll go back and see if it ' s still there and try and get better pics and maybe try and get it out . i tried but it seemed like it was stuck in there pretty tightly .
silken pads most likely . . . . . . and the added protection of a deep enough notch in a log . ^ ^ * another question though is when did it emerge ? last time i was there ( oct 15th ) i didn ' t see it there but then again i wasn ' t looking for cocoons or pupae / chrysalids then since the adults of various lepidopterans were out pollinating the last of the flowers .
my only guess it that it was over looked . it wouldn ' t make sense for it to have crawled in there say late / early october pupated and then emerged on an abnormally warm autumn / winter day only to eventually freeze to death . don ' t have the climate for them to do that
successfully
.
but i wouldn ' t rule anything out at this point . but the possibility of it being overlooked is more likely . hope to find more this year . . . . . . ♥
no clue ! ! was a shock to find this and many others zipping about . midges / craneflies ( these were in some sort of swarm ) another beetle in flight , slugs , milipedes , centipedes . . . . . . . woodlice . oh it was wonderful not to mention the birds .
juncos ! ! some friends had confirmed these are juncos and i had also learned that there might be a junco species complex ( idk if that would be the right term here but idk that much about birds to begin with ) since the
experts had lumped them all together
so to speak according to said friends .
i have many more but i ' ll post those in another post as once again i ' ve probably ranted enough about my precious lovely little friends . . . . . but i can ' t help it . * ^ ^ *
so i ' ve decided to document all the moths i ' ve seen this year that i ' ve id ' d and more or less id ' d . i had already more or less done this in a journal of sorts ( along with every other insect / spider ) i ' ve seen earlier in the season due to the lack of a camera .
i continued after purchasing another camera out of habit and utter enjoyment i got from doing so . also since i wasn ' t able to participate in national moth week ( due to lack of camera and the weather being entirely inappropriate for moth hunting the entire week ) this i think more then makes up for it i think . i ' m wondering if i could submit these anywhere . . . . . . at least the ones i was able to photograph ? ?
* note these aren ' t in order . . . . . . exactly . . . . . . just listing for convenience and enjoyment . dates added when possible .
all the moths listed above have similar wing colors & patterns to the one on my terrace that night . i was unfortunately unable to capture it to confirm it ' s identity . this pisses me off greatly . . . . . . sneaky little buggers . : p
spoladea recurvalis 10 - 01 - 13 saw about 5 - 6 of these throughout the season . first sighting was on 09 - 17 - 13 . was an utter bitch to id but soooo much fun . * ^ ^ *
atteva aurea 10 - 02 - 13 hadn ' t seen these in a looooooong time .
a very cold hypena scabra ( date unknown ) it ' s very much alive . not to worry . * ^ ^ *
was found on the most epic bug hunt of the year . my friend had taken me up to new jersey to see the cicadas and other assorted angels . pics later . . . . . in another entry . i think i ' ve spammed you all enough . : p
* * unidentified
zebra moth
was small . . . . . . . not as small as some other moths i ' ve seen
was quite plentiful this year . seen on numerous occasions throughout the season . a few of them might also have been
. . . . . . it ' s surprising how much they can look alike from a distance . xd
were both seen up at my friends house after the cicada fest . skippers and tiger swallowtails joined in along with numerous other creepy crawly lovely angels of all sorts .
oki doki that just about wraps this up for now . . . . . . . will be edited as needed of course . many firsts for me this season ( and there ' s more to tell ! ! ) . deliriously happy about all that ' s occurred bug wise . i only hope it gets even better with coming new year .
speaking of which i wish you all a merry christmas and a happy bug infested 2014 .
as you know monarchs are declining year after year . this year i ' ve only seen 3 and the year before i saw about maybe 20 give or take throughout the entire season ( i wasn ' t able to get photos because these were almost always in flight like they were on a mission ) ! ! this year i ' m proud to say i ' ve gotten pictures & videos of the blessed angels on 2 occasions .
the one pictured above was an absolute pleasure and honor to observe . i made a point of pointing it out to anyone who passed by while i was taking pictures ( this is the best one out of maybe 10 attempts ) of it feeding on the buddleia . it was a male . i hope it made it to mexico okay .
this one i had spotted in the treetops during my trip to the bronx zoo . what a pleasant surprise . i ' m also happy to report that they finally planted a nice patch of milkweed in the park by my house . orange milkweed ( asclepias tuberosa ? ) i hope it helps the monarchs that fly through here immensely .
the first one i had spotted i wasn ' t able to to get pictures of due to the lack of a camera ( i had unfortunately lost my old one ) and the fact that it flew by me so quickly it would ' ve been impossible to do so any way . xd it came out of nowhere just as i was pondering whether or not i ' d see any this year . . . . . . . . coincidence ? i don ' t think so .
that wouldn ' t be the first time butterflies ( in general ) popped up in ways that make me wonder . . . . . . . . especially this year . any way , as for the monarchs i ' ll do everything i can to support them and spread the awareness that they need our help badly . including keeping track of them and seeing if i can get some milkweed for my own purposes . . . . . we ' ll see .
. the nhm has a research library and they have . . . . . . . . everything . it ' s magnificent and i was so content in there surrounded by dozens of books on my precious angels . but the most coveted one was i . f . b common ' s moths of australia which i ' ll be ranting about .
first off this book is one of , if not the most well written pieces of literature on our heteroceran friends and it ' s something i ' ve wanted for a very very long time . sadly for reasons currently unknown ( i ' m trying to find out why ) the book is out of print and thus insanely hard to get a hold of .
sometime last year i found out the museum had a library and well . . . . . . . . you can guess what happened next . i went searching their archives to see if they had it during my hunt for a copy and lo and behold they did . and i finally got to read a nice big chunk of it ( they don ' t let anyone check out books , not even the staff ! unless under special circumstances ) and take a
of notes . my hand was cramping toward the end of the day . . . . . . . ohhhh it was wonderful .
this magnum opus of a book has both color and black and white photos a very nice layout of all the moth families found in australia and insanely wonderfully well written descriptions of their life cycles , behavior , species themselves , everything . in short mr . common is a genus and has my full and utter respect and idolization .
i can fully understand why people would flip their shit over this book ( as i have done ) it ' s everything i thought it would be and more .
it also has occurred to me that i think these might be the first photos of this book online . . . . . . . . . holy shit . i haven ' t found any except for the cover while searching online to see where i could possibly purchase a copy .
one of the main reasons this book was of particular interest to me besides the obvious was the extensive information on the epipyropidae whose larvae are parasites on various species of homopterans . epipyropids are yet another rule breaker of the
typical rules of lepidoptera
.
if i remember correctly a while back i think stated something on the possibility of parthenogenetic lepidoptera , if there were any or something along the lines and that how i didn ' t see how that could be possible blah blah blah .
and how course i was open to any possibility of there being any . . . . . . and look what happens . holy shit . there ' s so much to rant about involving this book . i want to go back there and try and see if i can read the entire thing cover to cover .
i think it ' s doable . we ' ll have to see . i ' ll post more photos in other entries ( there ' s more books to rant about ) since for some reason i ' m having trouble uploading more pics .
. for a while though i was researching various other similarly patterned swallowtails and giving myself rather
pleasant
headaches trying to figure out what this is .
of course this is all still open to speculation but i ' m 99 . 9 % sure this is
. . . . . . . i ' d like to know what subspecies if possible . i don ' t know if the pics / vids are clear enough to determine that but . . . . . . . . ^ ^ ; ;
visit # 10 ! ! this was magnificent as always . because it ' s towards the end of the season it was alot calmer and not so many people and not as many butterflies but still plentiful . hmmm lets see . . . . there were tons of atlas moths . at least 4 - 5 of them hidden throughout the blessed place and i managed to get some extremely nice photos of my lovely angels .
adorn my hat for atleast an hour each . they simply wouldn ' t leave and in the case of idea leucanoe i would ' ve walked out the door with it had the staff not
intervened
( i was all for taking it home too : p ) .
there were 2 . first one was perched up in the vegetation second one was flying around and had brushed against me and landed on the floor . one of the staff had picked it up and it was off flying again . it had reached the heat lights and the feeders . and i guess the light from the light fixtures emphasized this but as it was flying around the green of it ' s wings changed from green to blue to green again in various shades streaked with gold and silver . . . . . . . * . * like glitter .
then i traded for wings built to dazzle and float . . . . .
i was standing there with my mouth open . literally . it then settled on the vegetation and i proceeded to get pics ( see above ) . and if you look hard enough you can see said iridescence and the fact that the green is darker here then lets say this one :
this one was perched high up and away from nearby light sources . species wise friends and i were speculating between p . palinurus & p . daedalus . but i ' m 99 % sure is palinurus . i ' ll rant on this later in another entry . they had these here before on 2 other occasions but this is my first interaction with them .
all the other times they were just perched somewhere out of the way and then they ' d vanish and not be seen again . xd so this was beyond lovely . and they ' re my new fave after today .
they had more of them today then i ever remember them having within the 9 other times i ' ve been here . i ' ve observed something today that i never knew about my precious lovelies . they too are iridescent . the black wing tips of monarchs have a blue iridescence to them under light .
and 2 nymphalids that may or may not be
new
. i think one of them was a chocolate pansy (
) which i ' ve already listed and the other is one of the leafwings but i don ' t recognize it .
, and if that ' s the case then another new lovely angel has to be officially added to the ever growing list . ^ _ ^
another late nighter for me so i compiled a list of sorts of all the moths i have seen last year & throughout the years ( for some ) that i have successfully , or somewhat successfully identified .
however looking at it again , comparing images in the peterson ' s fieldguide to moths of north easter north america i don ' t think it ' s spilosoma dubia . . . . . . . . no idea . i ' ll have to research more .
pretty though . was found in the window of a closed down store last year ( i think it might still be there 0 _ 0 ) . pitty i couldn ' t get to it for better observation / id ' s but at least the pic is decent . ^ ^
i had the most delightful and rewarding ( i got to hold an atlas moth ! ) visit today at my paradise . i had been invited to tag along with a friends trip with her daughter and we went and saw all sorts of things . wound up in the hall of biodiversity and laid eyes on utter epicness :
among other wonderful things . i also found out where the library is . . . . . . . so i ' ll be investigating that asap . i want my books ^ ^ * they have i . f . b common ' s moths of australia ( i had checked their databases ) and i want to read it . it ' s out of print unfortunately so i at least want to read it . i hope one day i ' ll be lucky enough to obtain a copy somehow to call my own but for now i ' d like to just be able to read that magnum opus .
after running around various exhibits i finally got to go see my precious lepidopteran angels . . . . . . . and as i ' ve said was rewarded greatly as i got to hold an atlas moth (
we ( me and a volunteer ) had basically rescued the precious angel from being stuck in the window bar thingy . and the poor guy was having a shit fit over my handling it ( we ' re not supposed to disturb the moths & and he was a volunteer and didn ' t want to get in trouble ) which cut my time short holding said precious angel . i did manage to get a hasty video though of my having a happy fit while said volunteer was trying to get me to
hand it over
. i ' ll post that later . now it ' s on with the lovelyness
* or it could ' ve been h . sapho or h . cydno ?
* found a pic of this particular one online and i need to find it again to know the id . this is pending
* parthenos sylvia philippinica & p . s . lilacina they ' ve both had before but i didn ' t know that they were subspecies . i thought they were different color forms of parthenos sylvia . thanks to my friends payam & dave for id ' ing lovely angels . ^ ^ ♥
) outside the museum too . so many many birds everywhere that i ' ve never had the pleasure of seeing before . wonderful !
. i ' ll have a separate post for this as there ' s alot to rant about .
examples of 2 species of nemopteridae ( neuroptera ) halter imperatrix & chasmoptera sheppardi ( which as of right now may or may not be synonyms ) .
it ' s 4 : 00 am as i type this . xd for the past couple of days or so i ' ve been researching them . exactly what spurred this one ( research binge ) i haven ' t the slightest idea anymore but i ' ve been re - falling in love with them due to said research . to sum it up , since it ' s late neuroptera ( lacewings ) have numerous families and of those families i absolutely adore the nemopteridae , which i have just realized bear a resemblance to himantopteridid moths ( is this intentional or a coinicidence ? ) and ascalaphidae . . . . . . oh
i wish more then anything involving neuroptera that we had ascalaphids here . never had the pleasure of personally observing them . . . . . . . . only pictures ( same goes with nemopteridae ) . speaking of which :
i kinda wanna briefly research even more on these wonderful insects but as i said it ' s late xd i must make time to do so later tomorrow . i did find some rather wonderful papers on them via . wikipedia of all places ( which has an insane amount of info , with references ) . i ' ve been taking notes .
and the brown lacewings who ' s names i ' m forgetting right now . oh and then there ' s this :
australian ascalaphid . . . . . . . . does anyone know what species ? will ask around . any and all info / inputs are greatly welcomed and appreciated = )
if i counted right . . . . . . i think this is the 8th visit since this wonderful insanity started in 2011 . i cannot wait to get to visit number 10 whenever that ' ll be . but this one is memorable . . . . . . . . . because i met hazel davies program director and author ( i proudly have one of her books sitting on the table amongst many others in my house ) and although my meeting with her was brief it was infested with information on my lovelies . volunteering also came up yet again . . . . . . . i seriously think i ' m gonna do it at some point . first though personal things have to be permanently taken care of and then they ' re ( butterflies ) are mine . . . . . . .
she was mentioning schedules and i was thinking sundays since i virtually don ' t have anything to do on sundays so . . . . . we ' ll see . but i ' m not going to count my
eggs before they hatch . . . . . . i ' ll keep my fingers tightly crossed though .
* * had seen several and asked which species they were and was told
barred sister
( latin name unknown to all at the time ) so i ' d briefly check around online and the only
barred sister
i came across was the white - barred sister ( adelpha epione ) .
the unidentified swallowtail . never seen anything like it . any and all input is greatly appreciated ^ ^
flying around too only that the black in the wings seems more grey / silvery to me and the tails might ' ve been longer . . . . . . . . i managed to get on in a video ( will post shortly ) but idk if it ' s enough to id them definitely as there ' s also a
females were also observed . one was up right over the entrance door ( photo ) and the other was in the bushes a little ways away from said door on the other side . she unfortunately was near the end of her life as the poor thing wouldn ' t stop trembling .
which just popped out of nowhere and i managed to get a couple of fuzzy pictures . oh and there ' s this in the subway exits :
stuff like this was all over the walls and on the ground to the last exit they were letting people through because all the other ones were closed ( yes i stayed
late
again ) . didn ' t even know they had this . . . . . . . ♥
epic ! oh ! and i finally got to see
flight of the butterflies
. it ' s a magnificent film and it left me with an even greater appreciation and love for
i ' ll leave a proper review of that in another post . for now i have research and more posts to write .
manduca sexta 03 - 20 - 13 freshly eclosed . . . . . . . . . . . what a beauty .
) . totally unexpected and wonderful shock , and on top of that on the first day of spring .
talk about irony . don ' t you just love it ? ^ ^ i had heard quite a bit of rustling and i was thinking
wtf is that ?
knowing that we get all sorts of critters in here ( and i was hoping it wasn ' t a mouse xd ) only to look and see the pupa moving and fall off the sponge i had it on . it then
burst open
with this lovely angel thrashing around to get out .
it immediately starting climbing everything to get to a higher spot to expand it ' s wings tried to help it out by letting it crawl on my finger hoping it would settle there . . . . . . . . no it had other ideas ^ ^ ; ; ; ; it had wound up crawling onto my shoulder at which point i just put it back into the pavillion thingy ( what do you call those netted butterfly enclosures anyway ? ) where it climbed to the top and eventually settled down to expand it ' s wings .
took about an hour or so give or take . i sat there the whole time and watched it taking pics & vids at different intervals . since it was already dark out some are a bit blurry but what can you do when the lighting atm sucks ? : p work with what you got that ' s what .
manduca sexta 03 - 20 - 13 climbing up the sides of the pavilion thingy . old pupal shell i had gently removed after taking this photo .
of the brief minute or two i got to hold it i can tell you 2 things .
1 . they as adults also have quite a grip ( the larvae did too , perhaps even more so being that they ' re nothing but muscles designed for munching , chomping , etc ) .
2 . they have a scent after they emerge . idk how to explain it . . . . . . it ' s not like anything i ' ve ever smelt before . i know there ' s a
freshness
to it . idk what it was that gave it that scent . . . . . meconium ?
of meconium the little sucker had dripped a nice splotch of it on the
floor
of the pavillion thingy . . . . . . i do hope that ' ll come out easier later . xd
manduca sexta 03 - 20 - 13 in the process of expanding and drying its wings .
then i traded for wings built to dazzle and float . . . . . . . . .
i felt through out the entire miracle that was taking place in my house . and as i sit here thinking about it ( in general ) i ' m utterly baffled and amazed on how these lovely and often misunderstood creatures come to be .
i once again have to thank the lord for allowing me to enjoy his epic creations . i love every single one of them to pieces . and i hope that i get to enjoy more experiences with them in the future . every year for the rest of my life . . . . . . . ♥
manduca sexta diversity . . . . . no idea they were so variable * . * ♥ɛïɜ
found this while i was doing brief but thorough research on my lovely angels . i want to know what i have ( male or female ) as sexing sphinx moths for me at least is not as easy as other moths ( i . e . saturniids ) because their antennae aren ' t easily distinguishable .
i ' ll have to wait until daylight to start getting better pictures / videos . now i
go to bed . i have unfortunately picked up the habit of becoming nocturnal like my lovely heteroceran ( moths for you non ento / lepto geeks ) friends and that ' s no bueno . . . . . . . . . it ' s already 4 : 40am xd
and go far from the star of the show . . . . . . . . .
then just fabulous cloth so i ' ll keep holding onto my dreams . . . . . . .
once again i ' m amazed at mimicry and how utterly convincing it is even to us humans . first of
. bravo on job well done . = ) thirdly according h . l . lewis
i cannot get enough of them . . . . . . nope . never ending treasure . . . . . . . ♥
so i finally got to see this . basically it ' s nothing but a large hallway with the walls covered entirely in high resolution pictures of various species of moths depicting their breathtaking beauty .
felt nothing but utter joy . completely light and happy . best birthday ever . a nice little overview of what this place is like :
to spend the entire day with the things and people you love most . . . . . . . . . . ♥ friends gave me money to go to the museum and epicness ensued . i hadn ' t been there in so long because life is busy ( even more so now ) so to have this
escape
was wonderful .
to make it even more epic allison ( one of the staff ) gave me 2 extra voucher tickets to come back within the month . * . * i owe them everything .
which was at first hiding / resting among the pentas and looking absolutely gorgeous . a little worn but stunning nonetheless .
and had spotted it again 2 other times but was not able to get better pictures / videos of it . i ' ll edit this one and see if i can make it easier to see later .
2 . euploea sp . * first time seeing one . . . . . and it isn ' t one i recognize .
* cross between h . cydno and h . melpomene or h . erato perhaps ?
eyes are amazing . . . . . . observed one sitting on a leaf imbibing water or something . very laid back . allowed me to poke my camera into it ' s lovely face . . . . with those eyes that seem to follow you . ^ ^
i ' ll have to consult mr . jiggins on what this one might be exactly but . . . . . . . ^ ^ ; ; ; ; this is the only angle of it i could get it at . i tried getting it where you could see the upperside but the little sucker was up too high and in such a position / angle that made it impossible to do so .
but i tried my best . i have one more shot of it from at a distance that i think show a part of the upperside but i ' ll have to see . if i ' m lucky enough it might be enough to get at least an idea of what this lovely angel is .
staff had taken this picture for me as i wasn ' t able to do so obviously ^ ^ had landed on my bag . am question the id a bit . the patterns were different from the other
i had observed so idk if they ' re sexually dimorphic in anyway or if this is an aberration or subspecies . . . . . . . . . . or a completely different species .
at first in flight . there were several of these . as i mentioned before museum staff ( allison ) had given me 2 extra tickets to come back within the month ( you know damn well i ' ll be there ) and i next plan to go see the movie they have out . . . . . . . flight of the butterflies . . . . . . . . . . ɛïɜ
more to come ! i had a beautiful day . . . . . . . . . . i thank everyone responsible for making it so . god bless you all !
these are yet another one of my most favorites ever . there are 4 genera with species that are like this
. i believe all of them are in erebidae , lymantriinae . idk if they have common names or not but i ' ve dubbed them all
glittery sparkly satin moths
because that ' s exactly what they are . xd
if i ' m not mistaken there is a moth called
the satin moth
i think . . . . . . not too sure but these definitely need to be called that or something along those lines . abbreviated as gssn for short from here on out .
ɛïɜ # 1 lymantriinae used to be a family all on it ' s own within the arctiidae ( correct me if i ' m wrong in any of this people ! ! not too sure on things here ) and for reasons i ' m not entirely sure of taxonomist decided to make it a sub family of erebidae of who ' s existence & creation i ' m not entirely sure of how it came about . ^ ^ ; ;
ɛïɜ # 2 wikipedia fails to go by correct classification . * sigh * - _ -
appears to be variable ( ? ) most of them have brown edges to their wings and the one in the photo i posted ( which i got off of a tumblr ) clearly does not . the one in the flickr link i posted has lighter edges to her wings . but nothing that looks anything like this except for the green veins .
* * edit : after grabbing the original link ( see above ,
photo credits
) i see it titled
carriola sp . cf . arctornis complex , maybe carriola ecnomoda
it leads to even more questions . . . . . . . . . . wtf is going on here !
another entry is needed for this ! later . . . . . . on with it :
arctornis sp . if you ask me it looks like ( wing shape ) the carriola above . 0 _ 0
arctornis l - nigrum i want to hug it . * . * fuzzy sparkly angels . . . . . . . * . *
stay tuned for part 2 cause there ' s more . xd as always copyright infringement is not , nor ever will be intended .
been on a research binge . i really really adore the lycaenidae . . . . . . . . i have several favorites . . . . . . . genera . . . . . horaga , tajuria , etc . too many . deudorix epijarbus is beautiful . red . . . . . . . . who ' d ever thought . . . . red lycaenids . * . *
ok . . . . . . . i ' m on autopilot now of sorts so apologies if i ' m not making any sense . don ' t feel too great . it ' s snowing and i ' m in my house researching my lovely angels .
deudorix diovis . figs . 10 ♀ , 11 , 12 ♂ . accepted as deudorix diovis hewitson , 1863 .
deudorix dioetas . figs . 13 , 15 ♀ , 14 ♂ . accepted as rapala dioetas ( hewitson , 1863 ) .
deudorix epijarbas . figs . 16 , 18 ♂ , 17 ♀ . accepted as deudorix epijarbas ( moore , 1857 ) .
my full name is brittanie christina mccormack . i ' m 18 yrs old and i have 4 pet hermit crabs . i like to sing and dance and i love to listen to music and some of my favorite artist are : selena , britney spears , nsync , the back street boys , ozone , jennifer pena , ect and i like to watch tv and movies . and i like to go on the internet . i also like to collect stuffed frogs which comes to the name of my blog . the name wapo gipo are the names of 2 of my stuffed frogs in a language that i made up . ( i have over 200 stuffed frogs and they all have names . ) the ' ' yellow and the # 88 mean the following : yellow is one of my favorite colors and the number 88 is one of my favorite numbers , ie my favorite number is 8 so there fore any number that has the # 8 in it is my favorite # . i came into this messed up world march 1st . 1992 . and the name of my second blog
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wapo gipo mi mi mi ( for those of who cannot separate the words . ) is something i like to say to drive my mom crazy ! ; )
won gun kim ' s blog 몸은 비록 몰리 있어도 마음은 항상 가까운 곳에 . . .


pseudaletis clymenus , the common fantasy , is a butterfly in the lycaenidae family .

it is found in western and eastern nigeria , cameroon , the central african republic and the democratic republic of the congo .

the habitat consists of forests .

pseudaletis clymenus

according to pausanias , endymion deposed clymenus , son of cardys , at olympia . describing the
early history
of the eleans , pausanias reports that :
harpalyce was the daughter of king clymenus of arcadia , son of either schoeneus ( first version ) or of teleus of argos ( second version ) . clymenus was overcome with passion for his daughter . there are several versions of what happened next , of which all embody an incestuous father and a vengeful feast in which a child is killed and served up .
as long as you do not mind being disappointed here they are . the first picture is an overall photo of the whole drawer . also included in this drawer are some south african specimens from the genus tylopedia ( column 1 ) and phasis in column 2 and 3 . the last three columns are various iolaus species . the second photo enlarges the pseudaletis specimens . they were originally determined using libert’s “revision du genre pseudaletis . lambillionea” 2007 . i have since modified it after bouyer , “lambillionea , cxiii , 2” , 2013 . and also bouyer , “ent africana 19 ( 1 ) ” , 2014 . there are four specimens , two with a label beside them ( tb ? ) and two at an angle in the third column that i still need to examine and determine more accurately . any help happily accepted .
in the second version harpalyce was the daughter of clymenus son of teleus of argos , and of epicasta , and has two brothers : idas and therager . clymenus was overcome with passion for his daughter and secretly embarked on an affair with her that lasted for some time . finally , alastor , descendant of neleus , came to claim harpalyce as his wife , she having been betrothed to him since she was young . when the couple were halfway to their home , clymenus abducted her back and lived with her openly as his wife . harpalyce , being upset by father ' s treatment of her , killed her younger brother and served him up to his father at a banquet . she then prayed to the gods and was transformed into a bird called the
chalkis
. clymenus took his own life .
phrixa was a hilltop town in the ancient land of pisa . the town was already ruined in pausanias ' days ( 2nd century ad ) . it had a temple of cydonian athena . it was said that the temple was founded by clymenus from kydonia in crete , a descendant of heracles of ida .
of the characters in greek mythology called phaethon ( ; ,
phaéthōn
, ) , the best known was the son of the oceanid clymene and the solar deity helios . alternatively , less common genealogies make him a son of clymenus by oceanid merope , of helios and rhodos ( thus a full brother of the heliadae ) or of helios and prote .
other epithets include : aethyia under which she was worshiped in megara . the word
aethyia
( ) signifies a
diver
, and figuratively , a
ship
, so the name must reference athena teaching the art of shipbuilding or navigation . in a temple at phrixa in elis , which was reportedly built by clymenus , she was known as cydonia .
in the first version clymenus , son of schoeneus , raped his daughter and she became pregnant . when the son was born she served him up as a meal at a banquet to his father , who killed her over that . in an alternative version of this tale , she was instead transformed into a bird , the
chalkis
( see second version below ) .
harpalyke ( ; greek :
αρπαλύκη
) , also known as ' , is a retrograde irregular satellite of jupiter . it was discovered by a team of astronomers from the university of hawaii led by scott s . sheppard in 2000 , and given the temporary designation ' . in august 2003 , the moon was named after harpalyke , the incestuous daughter of clymenus , who in some accounts was also a lover of zeus ( jupiter ) .
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is an african genus of lycaenidae , comprised of 25 seldom encountered forest species . the are tied to
ant trees
where the larvae feed , and probably pupate , within the
ant nests . adults , it would seem , prefer to stay perched up in the canopy along the edges of forest clearings , and have been observed to be active as the sun is setting . a number have been taken at moth - lights during the night , suggesting that they are perhaps , in part , nocturnal .
both their flight and facies contribute to excellent mimicry of certain day - flying moths . i ' ve been fortunate enough to collect a single female of
( michel libert ' s 2007 revision of the genus records only 2 other females from d . r . congo ) , and , until
pointed out what it was , i had it stored among my moth specimens . it really had me fooled !
at the bottom - left is one of 4 known specimens of the species ( 1 male , 3 female ) , with each specimen having been found singly in separate localities ( actually 1 each from guinea , ivory coast , ghana , and cameroon ) .
are known to have been collected from c . a . r . and cameroon ( only 4 males ) .
this species was named by libert in honour of the team at abri . at the time of publishing the revision only 13 females were known ( in this box we see 17 ) . the male has yet to be discovered .
this male holotype is the only known specimen of p . cornesi , and was collected in nigeria :
, from togo , is one of only 2 known ( the other , from nigeria , is housed in the natural history museum , in london ) . the female is unknown :
( including the female allotype . . . i don ' t have a picture of the male holotype which must have been in another box ) . below we have a close - up of a few males & females from r . c . a . ( central african republic ) .
, from guinea , which is known from 2 males & a female , all collected in the month of september .
despite the former being white and the latter orange . . . a feature which seems fairly significant to the divisions within the genus .
, from ghana , is known from 5 males all caught in light - traps . the holotype is at m . r . a . c . in tervuren , belgium . ( i believe the quite beat - up specimen top - left of the first image is one of these 5 males )
( described by neave in 1910 , known from 2 females - se d . r . congo & zambia ) and
( from 1 male , described by druce 1913 - cameroon ) are not represented in the abri collection ( outside of those images , but can be found at the n . h . m . ( london ) .
species , as of the year 2007 9 were known from 5 or fewer specimens . if you ' re into collected rare butterflies , in my opinion , this group ought to be at the top of your list !
an amazing series of photographs of a genus that one rarely gets a chance to see , even as plates in an article , revision or book . thank you for showing them . seeing a series , as opposed to a book plate of a singleton , makes it much easier to appreciate and understand the taxonomy involved . it puts my small number of specimens to shame .
i ' d love to see pictures of what you have , if you ' d be willing to share .
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from where is the antimachus female from ? it looks like unusual . . .
this is one of the things i love about icf - we get to see all these fantastic species that no - one normally shows us . adam .
this forum reminds me how little i know about insects on a daily basis , it really is a gold mine .
it is no possible to work on picture of course but your zebra include at least 2 different species first zebra ( tb ? ) and third are probably relied to the 2 other ( angled ) in the second columns and seems the male of the zebra ( ht female fom gabon ) . the two others may be what libert described taeniata ( but photos are not enough ) the large marginal black margin of the antimachus female is unusual but this species is very variable ( it contains probably a group of species that i didn ' t yet had opportunity to study seriously ) . at least the antimachus from congo seems a different species of that from cameroon and gabon and dardanella may be a good species .
it ' s remarkable to me how much some of these species ( especially abriana ) resemble certain neotropical riodinids ! j . hyatt
sad to say , another no . i just took a morning to grab pictures of random boxes from within the collection . i ' ll be slowly sharing these pictures here over the coming months . perhaps next time around i can take more targeted photos . i was tempted to take more photos of the
but they were sitting above ian richardson ' s work space , so they were inconvenient to get to .


tschudi 's yellow-shouldered bat ( sturnira oporaphilum ) , is an extant species of leaf-nosed bat indigenous to argentina , ecuador , and peru , with its range also encompassing bolivia .

tschudi ' s yellow - shouldered bat

no children of tschudi ' s yellow - shouldered bat ( sturnira oporaphilum ) found .
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sánchez , m . s . , n . p . giannini , and r . m . barquez . 2012 . bat frugivory in two subtropical rain forests of northern argentina : testing hypotheses of fruit selection in the neotropics . mammalian biology 77 : 22 - 31 .
this species is found in peru , bolivia , and northwestern argentina ( anderson et al . 1982 , gardner 2008 ) . simmons ( 2005 ) included ecuador as part of the geographic range but that is a mistake with populations of s . ludovici ; gardner ( 2008 ) included s . ludovici as a subspecies of s . oporaphilum .
anderson , s . 1997 . mammals of bolivia : taxonomy and distribution . bulletin of the american museum of natural history 231 : 1–652 .
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anderson , s . , koopman , k . f . and creighton , k . 1982 . bats of bolivia : an annotated checklist . american museum novitates 2750 : 1–24 .
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very rare in southern argentina ( r . barquez , pers . comm . ) ; in bolivia is restricted to very nearly places ( anderson 1997 ) . however , it appears be common at some montane forests in southeastern peru ( s . solari , pers . comm . ) . it could be locally endangered because its low population density and high impact on some andean habitats though its geographic range .
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justification : listed as least concern because of its wide occurrence through a large geographic distribution . although there is no information on specific requirements for its presence at a local scale , it shows some tolerance to habitat transformations . at the present , the impacts on the andean forests it inhabits are not noticeable on their populations or overall distribution .
beyond the fact that the species prefers humid montane forests over 1 , 000 m , there is no information on habitat and ecology . similar to other species in the genus , it is expected to be mainly frugivorous ; in northern argentina it was found to be strongly depending on solanaceae and piperaceae ( sánchez et al . 2012 ) .
similar to other andean species it may be affected by the impact on montane forests through its range on the eastern versant of the andes . agricultural , small scale wood extraction and illegal crops are permanent threats in southern peru and northern bolivia .
because of the few data on the species ( but see sánchez et al . 2012 ) , most research actions are needed at places where the species is still common , like southeastern peru , to gather further data on ecology and life history . the species is present at some protected areas in peru , bolivia and argentina .
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gardner , a . l . 2008 . tribe sturnirini . in : gardner , a . l . ( ed . ) , mammals of south america . volume 1 . , pp . 363 - 376 . the university of chicago press , chicago .
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simmons , n . b . 2005 . order chiroptera . in : d . e . wilson and d . m . reeder ( eds ) , mammal species of the world , pp . 312 - 529 . the johns hopkins university press , baltimore , md , usa .
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comments : subgenus sturnira . often confused with bogotensis ; see pacheco and patterson ( 1992 )