Gonepteryx aspasia color variability

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John-ST, 04.06.2012 11:09

I'll start from the beginning:
The young lady shows a photo of a lemongrass, which is actually a typical yolk. I tell her that it's not a lemongrass, but a jaundice. She told me how difficult it is for you entomologists. No, I say everything is quite simple here: lemongrass has tails on its wings. Great she answers, and in Primorye, interestingly, lemongrass gray-brown-crimson speckled on a withered leaf are similar.
I open Gorbunov - males are yellow, females are white, followed by Kurentsov and Korshunov from various publications and the determinant of the DV Lera-males are yellow, females are white with greenish. I go to Google, score Gonepteryx, a sea of yellow and white-green, find a few Japanese people all have yellow and white-green maxims and aspasia. I'm sorting out who it might look like, a bunch of options from scolimuses to anguloptera.
I say to the young lady, they say you are making bullshit, lemongrass males are yellow, females are white with a greenish underside of the wings, and there are many different withered leaves in Primorye, let's see photos.
After a couple of days, he shows me a photo. I look lemongrass gray-brown-crimson speckled on a withered leaf like. Once again I climb into Gorbunov-Korshunov-Kurentsov-Ler-ni gu-gu. I open Google again ask about Gonepteryx-s, start wooling close relatives, nothing like that. I stupidly score Gonepteryx maxima and Gonepteryx aspasia. On Gonepteryx aspasia Google finds what you want-gray-brown-crimson speckled lemongrass on the macroid and Berlov. I feel like an idiot, and I once again appeal to the above-mentioned comrades: Korshunov-Kurentsov-Lehr do not say anything new except for yellow-white-green, and Gorbunov replies that individual variability is insignificant.
The result of the story once again confirmed that the qualifiers comrades write for themselves, that he is a fool, and that the most offensive thing is that he fucked the brains of himself and the computer for three days, the young lady unobtrusively called a fool.
In search of the truth, I came across Korshunov's kicking Kurentsov's feet for two generations of aspasias:
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So I had a question about what is the reason for the variability of color in aspasia. All photos of aspasia that I was able to find with the dates of shooting/capture are clearly divided into gray-brown-crimson speckled April and yellow-white-green July-August. So maybe Kurentsov is right and aspasia has two generations, or it's the butterflies that turn so brown over the winter that the summer ones are brighter than the spring ones, but in my opinion this is due to the life expectancy of specific specimens.