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Post by cabintom on Jan 30, 2015 5:56:27 GMT
So, I just recently finished setting a number of skippers, and I got to thinking that, despite the fact that they are among the most difficult butterflies to properly set, we need to show them more love. So, to that end, here's some Hesperiidae collected in D.R. Congo last year.  | Coeliades forestan | Borbo borbonica
| Pardaleodes bule
| Spialia mafa
| Osmodes thora
| Pardaleodes incerta
| Caenides dacena
| Pterteinon laufella (?)
| Zenonia zeno
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... and can someone remind me in the future not to save all of my papered Hesperiidae to pin at once? Tom |
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Post by wollastoni on Jan 30, 2015 10:57:51 GMT
They are splendid Tom, thank you for sharing them !!
This Coeliades forestan reminds me some child moments when I caught it in the 90ies in La Réunion island. I remember it turning around the summit of a tree and thus it was hard a hard catch. This was the first "canopy" Hesperidae that I met in my life, European species being more grass-level species.
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Post by cabintom on Jan 30, 2015 15:07:48 GMT
This Coeliades forestan reminds me some child moments when I caught it in the 90ies in La Réunion island. I remember it turning around the summit of a tree and thus it was hard a hard catch. This was the first "canopy" Hesperidae that I met in my life, European species being more grass-level species. The first one I ever caught was zipping around the tops of two fruit trees in a friend's yard. I probably jumped and swung at it 20 times before finally netting it... they're so fast and agile. Fortunately, I've since learned, they're fairly fond of flowers and quite a bit easier to catch then. |
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Post by wollastoni on Jan 30, 2015 15:21:24 GMT
"I probably jumped and swung at it 20 times before finally netting it..."
--> exactly the souvenir I have of it !!!
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Post by mygos on Jan 31, 2015 12:14:32 GMT
When I was a butterflies collector, I was not too keen on Hesperiidae, as they were difficut to catch. Once in the net, they were difficult to handle without damaging their scales, and last but not least, hard to set properly as Tom mentionned ! Here is a nice one I photographed in Kakamega forest, Kenya, September 2005, not so far from where you are Tom !  I do not know what species it is ... A+, Michel |
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Post by cabintom on Jan 31, 2015 13:58:27 GMT
I do not know what species it is ... Looks like a species of Celaenorrhinus. If you've got a copy of M. Libert's recent revision, I'd imagine you could ID it fairly easily. EDIT: Maybe Celaenorrhinus galenus? Though this one's lacking a marking at the base of the FW costa... |
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Post by mygos on Jan 31, 2015 14:47:58 GMT
Difficult group, but thanks to Libert recent monograph, it is a male Apallaga kakamegae !
A+, Michel
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Post by cabintom on Feb 1, 2015 2:17:54 GMT
it is a male Apallaga kakamegae Did he raise a new genus? |
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Post by mygos on Feb 1, 2015 9:19:31 GMT
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Post by cabintom on Feb 1, 2015 14:31:35 GMT
No Tom, this Genus was created by Strand in 1911. Ah merci! What I have been looking at has Apallaga synonymized with Celaenorrhinus. |
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