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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 14: Pieridae (Whites)

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.

 

The RC Dening Collection - Butterflies - Pierinae

725 Pseudopontia paradoxa australis
(Zambia)
905 Anthocharis cardamines
(Austria)
922 Colias australis
(Austria)
  874 Gonepteryx rhamni
(England)
1286 Leptidea sinapsis
(England)
1116 Euchloe tagis ssp. ballezina
(France)
923 Colias crocea
(Cyprus)
213 Colias electo
ssp. hecate
(Zambia)
 
  1270 Euchloe simplonia
(Greece)
924 Colias crocea
(Cyprus)
660 Colias electo
ssp. electo
(Zambia)
951 Gonepteryx cleopatra
ssp. taurica
(Cyprus)
  1093 Pinacopteryx eriphia
ssp. melanarge
(Somalia)
1091 Colias fieldi
(India)
1246 Colias electo
ssp. pseudohecate
(Malawi)
 
  55 Pinacopteryx eriphia
ssp. eriphia
(Zambia)
925 Colias fieldi
(India)
Colias philodice 951 Gonepteryx cleopatra 
ssp. europaea
(France)
 

The RC Dening Collection - Butterflies - Pierinae

927 Eurema daira
(Barbados)
992 Eurema elathea
(Antigua)
     
928 Eurema lisa euterpe
(Barbados)
1284 Eurema andersoni
ssp. hecabe
(Hong Kong)
1282 Catopsilia pyranthe
ssp. minna
(Sri Lanka)
1281 Catopsilia pomona
f. pomona
(Sri Lanla)
 
1283 Eurema laeta
ssp. betheseba
(Hong Kong)
1288 Eurema andersoni
ssp. ormistoni
(Sri Lanka)
1282 Catopsilia pyranthe
ssp. pyranthe
(India)
1281 Catopsilia pomona
f. catilla
(India)
63 Catopsilia florella
(Zambia)
1283 Eurema laeta
ssp. laeta
(India)
1289 Eurema blanda
ssp. silhetana
(Sri Lanka)
920 Phoebis sennae
(Barbados)
1281 Catopsilia pomona
f. crocale
(Sri Lanka)
Catopsilia pomona
f. perspicua

 

 

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