website update

On an earlier blog Lynn talked about our visit last month to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and I have now loaded all the pictures from that visit onto the species pages. Amongst others they include some of the species pairs that can be tricky to identify such as:
Mimosa Yellow Pyrisitia nise / Confusing Yellow Pyrisitia larae. It's well-named that one!
Barred Yellow Eurema daira / Banded Yellow Eurema elathea
Lyside Sulphur Kricogonia lyside / Cuban Sulphur Kricogonia cabrerai
I have also improved the texts of the above and in the case of P. larae / P.nise I have also removed a couple of the pictures - dodgy identifications on my part!
These are all species that never settle with their wings open so the only chance of getting pictures of the uppersides is either by taking lots of flight shots and hoping that some will be in focus, or by photographing set specimens like these. For several of these getting a good view of the upperside is fundamental to making a correct identification.
Thank you again to Dr James Hogan at the Museum for arranging access.

COMPARISON females: P. larae on left, P. nise on right 28 Mar 1993 Guanahacabibes Coll. D.S.Smith. Specimen from the collection of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

Whitish Yellow Pyrisitia messalina uppersides male on left, female on right 4 Jul 1993 Isla de Juventad. Coll. D.S.Smith. Specimen from the collection of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

COMPARISON of females: E. elathea above and E. daira below. Coll. D.S.Smith. Specimens from the collection of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

male Barred Yellow Eurema daira 29 Sep 1991 Boca de Yauco. Coll. D.S.Smith. Specimen from the collection of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

male Banded Yellow Eurema elathea 29 Sep 1991 Boca de Yauco. Coll. D.S.Smith. Specimen from the collection of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

Female uns Lyside Sulphur Kricogonia lyside 29 Jun 1993 Rio Seco_Guantanamo Coll. D.S.Smith. Specimen from the collection of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

Male ups Lyside Sulphur Kricogonia lyside 29 Jun 1993 Rio Seco_Guantanamo Coll. D.S.Smith. Specimen from the collection of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

Female ups Cuban Sulphur Kricogonia cabrerai 29 Jun 1993 Rio Seco_Guantanamo Coll. D.S.Smith. Specimen from the collection of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.