Gynandromorph Poplar Hawk Moth

[Adrian Jones]

This is probably the most unusual and rarest insect I will ever photograph, a perfect halved gynandromorph Poplar Hawk moth. The right side is male, the left female, divided perfectly down the centre.



Gynandromorph Poplar Hawk Moth par Adrian Jones, on ipernity


This is an in camera stack of fifteen images.


Thanks for looking

Adrian

 

[Lepus]

Amazing , fascinating too , well done .

 

[Adrian Jones]

Amazing , fascinating too , well done .

Thank you Lepus, I've always dreamed of finding one of these, never thought it would happen though and at a time I had a camera handy.

 

[Graham]

That`s really nice and unusual , a great find.
On this subject, I am in a couple of FB Groups and someone last week posted a Butterfly, not like yours here though, this one was 50/50 of what looked like 2 different Butterflies, now that`s weird.

 

[Gav.]

That is an odd one, TFS.

 

[Adrian Jones]

That`s really nice and unusual , a great find.
On this subject, I am in a couple of FB Groups and someone last week posted a Butterfly, not like yours here though, this one was 50/50 of what looked like 2 different Butterflies, now that`s weird.

Thanks Graham, couldn't believe my luck when I found it. The butterfly someone posted may be a gynandromorph too, remember that many butterflies are very sexually dimorphic so it may appear to be two different species due to the difference between the sexes in that species.

 

[Adrian Jones]

That is an odd one, TFS.

Thanks Gav, nature is amazing.

 

[Norkie]

Incredible

 

[Graham]

Thanks Graham, couldn't believe my luck when I found it. The butterfly someone posted may be a gynandromorph too, remember that many butterflies are very sexually dimorphic so it may appear to be two different species due to the difference between the sexes in that species.

And here it is.

 

[Adrian Jones]

And here it is.

Hi Graham,

Thanks for the image, I'm not sure on this one as the right side looks to be the upper side of a Melitaea aetherie, Aetherie Fritillary but the left side does not but it does look to me like the underside of another species that I cannot identify, I have a feeling this specimen may be either be a collage of two species or a doctored specimen. I would love to be proved wrong on that but that is what I suspect.

 

[Graham]

Yes a Melitaea aetherie ( Heath Fritillary) and something like Melitaea didyma (Spotted Fritillary) I really do not think this has been PS`d.