Photo #21314: Atrophaneura alcinous

28.02.2013 17:07, Irina Nikulina

Petr, no biggies, question is still here) As for the background I'd like to say it couldn't look natural as well as in other imago photos of Atrophaneura alcinous. I made an author's comment that those specimens had been raised of pupae in winter (larvae had been picked from birthwort in August) at home. Few specimens emerged in Vladivostok, and the rest did in Moscow, 10 days later, right by the New Year celebration)). Moscow females had such grey submarginal semicircles whilst ones from Vladivostok did pink (as usual), see photo #21312. So there is a question to experts. Whether this difference is an intragenera variation or some outer factors influenced, namely, that pupae had been transported by plane 10000km away in winter not long before the emersion?)

28.02.2013 12:54, Peter Khramov

Yes, there is more than one photo wings open, and that one was deleted due to the background looked unnatural. Missed your comment indeed, should have been moved to another pic or not delete the photo at all. Sorry for that.

27.02.2013 22:22, Irina Nikulina

Petr, photo #21313, Atrophaneura alcinous female, disappeared from the gallery. Since it was good quality, have just one idea, you might have considered that Atrophaneura alcinous already overillustrated? Ok with that. But that photo had my comment/question that I'd like to reask here please. I'd like to hear some pro opinion of the difference between submarginal semicircles of the females http://lepidoptera.pro/gallery/21314 and http://lepidoptera.pro/gallery/21312. What's this? Intragenera variation? Saw for the first time grey spots instead of pink. (Those butterflies are from larvae http://lepidoptera.pro/gallery/21282 picked from the same birthwort, though they emerged from pupa http://lepidoptera.pro/gallery/21283 under different conditions and in different locations).