Posted by Andre on 03-10-2005 12:36
#5
Well, this one is not melanistic. There is a shimmering red visible in the snapshot. This one can be a very fresh specimen, where colour has not fully formed yet. Also there seems to be a connection between bodycolour and temperature at emergence; the colder it was, the darker the specimen stays. In E. tenax the wide range between very red and very dark specimens is a normal phenomenon.