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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 44: Vanessini/Araschniini

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 - Vanessini/ Araschniini

        748 Antanartia schaeneia
ssp. dubia
(Malawi)
898 Vanessa atalanta
(Britain)
899 Nymphalis polychloros
(India)
903 Inachis io
(Britain)
  820 Antanartia dimorphica
(Malawi)
892 Vanessa indica
ssp. indica
(Hong Kong)
  904 Aglais urticae
(Germany)
890 Kaniska canace
ssp. canace
(Hong Kong)
1158 Antanartia abyssinica
(Ethiopia)
892 Vanessa indica
ssp. nubicola
(Sri Lanka)
  906 Aglais caschmirensis
(India)
890 Kaniska canace
ssp. haronica
(Sri Lanka)
916 Anartia jatrophae
(Antigua)
124 Vanessa cardui
(Zambia)
  907 Polygonia
c-album

(Britain)
896 Symbrenthia lilaea
(Hong Kong)
362 Vanessula milca
ssp. latifasciata
(Zambia)
 

RC Dening Collection - Butterflies - Vanessini/ Araschniini

399 Catacroptera cloanthe
(IZambia)

135 Precis orithya ssp. madagascariensis
(Zambia)

 

378 Precis orithya ssp. madagascariensis
(Zambia)

 

1024 Precis orithya ssp. swinhoei
(Sri Lanka)

902 Araschnia levana
(Austria)

1024 Precis orithya ssp. orithya
(Nepal)

 

 

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