Photo #24413: Rhodinia fugax

15.11.2013 13:41, Yuri Semejkin

I added pupae of another species http://lepidoptera.pro/gallery/25020

15.11.2013 13:28, Irina Nikulina

Me neither can find anywhere jankowskii pupa. Still there are pics of fugax, pupa was identified in nature by qualified entomologist. These two species can seem to be distinguished by photo.

15.11.2013 11:24, Yuri Semejkin

R.jankowskii is distributed in Primorye, I confirm. As for this pupa, I got it many times, no win. This one, in the pic, is at home too, picked up again, no positive belief it will work out after two fails.

15.11.2013 9:51, Vasiliy Feoktistov

It's only one in Far East as most likely (can be moved back to uncertain). The thing is that there are plenty of images of R. fugax pupae on the web whilst can't find pic of R.jankowskii to compare. Best would be to pick up pupae and try to get imagoes to resolve all doubts. In most cases no precise ID possible by pupae.

14.11.2013 23:53, Irina Nikulina

Vasily, please explain what you meant by "it's only one in Far East"? What about Rhodinia jankowskii? Surely distributed in Primorye. Can anyone give links to its pupae, maybe similar to fugax diana?

04.11.2013 14:20, Vasiliy Feoktistov Corrected data.

Tentatively identified → Confidently identified.

04.11.2013 14:20, Vasiliy Feoktistov

Moved to identified confidently: it's only one in Far East, no variants.

04.11.2013 13:39, Vasiliy Feoktistov Corrected data.

Not identified → Rhodinia fugax / Tentatively identified / Yuri Semejkin.

04.11.2013 13:39, Vasiliy Feoktistov

This is Rhodinia fugax (Butler, 1877)? Rhodinia fugax diana Oberthür, 1886? Looks similar. Moving to uncertain, you please name ssp.

04.11.2013 13:25, Yuri Semejkin

Rhodinia fugax?