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The R.C. Dening Collection

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Lepidoptera and Odonata collected by R.C. (Tim) Dening from all around the world throughout a lifetime of travel and natural history interest from 1930 to 2000. The collection, amounting to more than 70 cases, is now held in the Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, in Scotland. It features a  large number of Zambian butterflies and moths.

 

Butterflies
Case 31: Melanitini/Lethini

The names of the butterflies in the cases are listed beneath the pictures, with the country of collection under the name.

You can click on the pictures to go to a higher resolution image.

The numbers next to the names relate to the collector's original hand written notes. The numbers represent species/subspecies, rather than individual specimen numbers. You can access these original species notes by clicking on the underlined names. This will open a PDF document of the relevant page of notes. Locate the correct number on the page to access information on dates and places of collection of that particular species.

Explanations to help the reader to interpret the Collector's Notes are available here.

 

RC DEning Collection - Butterflies - Melanitini

  279 Melanitis leda
(Zambia)
   
408 Gnophodes betsimena
f. parmeno
(Zambia)
163 Melanitis leda
(Zambia)
6 Melanitis libya
(Zambia)
1166 Melanitis phedima ssp. muskata
(Hong Kong)
477 Gnophodes betsimena
f. parmeno
(Zambia)
261 Melanitis leda
(Zambia)
   
1009 Gnophodes betsimena
f. diversa
(Kenya)
463 Melanitis leda
ssp. helena
(Zambia)
1165 Melanitis leda
ssp. ismene
(Sri Lanka)
1165 Melanitis leda
ssp. leda
(India)
 

RC Dening Collection - Butterflies - Lethini

Aphysoneura pigmentaria
ssp. pigmentaria
1168 Lethe rohria
ssp.yoga
(Sri Lanka)
  941 Lasiommata maera
f. adrasta
(Italy)
 
768 Aphysoneura pigmentaria
ssp. latilimba
(Malawi)
1176 Lethe rohria
ssp.rohria
(India)
957 Lasiommata megera
ssp. megera
941 Lasiommata maera
ssp. maera
(Italy)
1164 Pararge aegeria
ssp. tircis
888 Lethe confusa
ssp. apara
(Hong Kong)
1169 Lethe daretis
(Sri Lanka)
957 Lasiommata megera
ssp. lyssa
941 Lasiommata maera
ssp. orientalis
(Cyprus)
1164 Pararge aegeria
ssp. aegeria
(France)
1167 Lethe drypetis
(India)
955 Kirinia roxelana
(Cyprus)
1172 Lasiommata schakra
(India)
942 Lasiommata petropolitana
(Austria)
 

 

 

 

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