Extremely rare, irreplaceable world collection of diurnal butterflies in a museum drawer. Taxidermy full body mount - Oa. Amesia Erasmia) sanguiflua sanguiflua, Litinga mimica, Charaxes jasius - 30 cm - 40 cm - 6 cm - Ex. Collectie Vestergaard -allen met originele data etiketten 1970-2001 - 16

One of the finest drawers from the collection.

Offered: an exceptionally complete and historical museum drawer with 16 prepared exotic day-flying butterflies,

Originating from the renowned private collection of entomologist Vestergaard.

Introduction:

What you see here is not a standard decorative butterfly collection - this is a museum-worthy entomological world collection of 16 specimens from the famous Vestergaard collection.

Descriptions of butterflies.

ROW 1 - Top row - from left to right:

1. Adelpha sp.
Label: PEDRO RUIZ GALLO AMAZONAS PERU 16.VI.1989
Brown with a broad white band. Nymphalidae from the Amazon. A1.

2. Elzunia humboldt cf. regalis - VERY RARE !!!
Label: Bryk 1937 E. humboldt Latreille,1811 ? E. b. regalis Stichel ?
Black with white and yellow, Ithomiinae from the Andes.
Determinend by Vestergaard himself as a question mark. This is a museum piece !!!

3. Euploea diocletianus female
Label: KHAO SOI DAO CHANTHABURI THAILAND 14.IV.1983
Dark brown with white stripes. Danaidae Thailand.

4. Cyrestis sp. - zebra.
Label: Philippines Mindanao 1982 Koll. Lehmann.
Small white with black stripes and orange eye spots. Very decorative.

ROW 2 - SECOND ROW:

5. LEFT - Mimathyma sp.
Label: CHINA W.SICHUAN Emei Shan 1600m VII.1997 leg. Wu
White with black spots. High altitude 1600m, rare.

6. MIDDLE-LEFT - Neptis / Pantoporia.
Label: CHINA GUANGXI Jinxiu Dayao Shan VII-VIII.1998 leg. Liang
Dark brown with 3 orange longitudinal stripes.

7. MIDDLE-RIGHT - Euploea / Lethe sp.
Label: CHINA W.SICHUAN Emei Shan 1600m VII.1997 leg. Wu
Brown with white spots. High mountain.

8. RIGHT - Phoebis / Catopsilia - Colombia.
Label: Colombia Dep. Tolima Melgar 200m 25-7-1977 leg. Vestergaard.
Bright yellow day butterfly, collected by Vestergaard himself in 1977.

ROW 3 - THIRD ROW:

9. LEFT - Nephargynnis anadyomene.
Label: Nephargynnis shirôzu et saigusa N. anadyomene + CHINA W.SICHUAN.
Orange with black spots, large species.
Nice condition.

10. MIDDLE-LEFT - Euploea sp. BLUE.
TOP PIECE !!!!
Label: BENAR BANGKO DURI 18.VII.1978
Black with purple-blue iridescence.
The eyecatcher.
Sumatra.

11. MIDDLE-RIGHT - Polyura / Charaxes sp.
Label: CHINA GUANGXI Jinxiu Dayao Shan VII-VIII.1998
Cream-white with black and 2 tails with blue.

12. RIGHT - Cethosia biblis ABERRATION -
THE RAREST PIECE !!!!!

Label: POSSIBLY ABERR. OF CETHOSIA BIBLIS OR LUZONICA + MARINDUQUE PHILIPPINES Oct.1983
Orange with black.
Marked by Vestergaard as aberration.
This makes the drawer unique and valuable.

ROW 4 - LOWER ROW:

13. LEFT - Athyma / Parathyma boac.
Label: BOAC MARINDUQUE Philippines 3.II.1996
Brown with broad white band.
Island-endemic.

14. MIDDLE-LEFT - Euploea eupator orneus male
Label: Bantimurung Maros Sulawesi 15.3.78
Black-white striped.
Bantimurung is now a National Park, pre-ban material thus very rare !!!!

15. MIDDLE-RIGHT - Cupha erymanthis
Label: Thailand Phuket Ban Karon 11-8-1991 leg. Vestergaard.
Warm orange-brown. Phuket.

16. RIGHT-LOWER - Euploea sp.
Label: CHINA W.SICHUAN Emei Shan 1600m VII.1997
Dark brown with large white fields.

Why this collection is unique for the serious collector:

Provenance and Scientific Value:
All 16 specimens are supplied with their original, unique data labels, partly handwritten by Vestergaard himself.

No trade labels.
This concerns field-collected material from expeditions between 1970 - 2001 to Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, Cameroon, Thailand, China, Iran and former Yugoslavia.

The labels are partly written by himself and partly by colleagues-entomologists such as Wu, Ten Broek and Peregovits and Varga.

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for advanced collectors, study, museums to have a very extensively documented museum drawer from a renowned collection

A complete and highly extensively documented drawer like this will never be assembled again.

A lifetime of collecting, hand-prepared.

This is a lot for the serious collector seeking provenance, data and species you will never find in shops again.

We have received 100 new Vestergaard museum drawers !!!!

Again a very large complete scientific insect collection.
Provenance Vestergaard / Gyulai and several other national and international entomologists.
We will auction this collection again without minimum prices on Catawiki, so keep an eye on my offers.

Pickup is preferred due to fragility. If you buy multiple drawers we can arrange possible personal delivery.
For shipping we will pack the drawers with care and extremely well.
Although all insects are securely mounted on pins there is always a small chance of damage.
Therefore shipping is also at your own risk.

We have already shipped more than 80 drawers and they have all arrived well except for one pin-pricked butterfly.

Carefully packaged and insured shipping.