Harish Gaonkar's collection must be at the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen. Some
boxes with material he was working on were kept separately at the Natural
History Museum, London when I was there, but these were a part of the NHM
collections.He naturally did not collect all the butterflies he reported, some
were included on the basis of records in the literature and museum collections.
However, he was very careful with these and therefore did not report Amathusia
phidippus and Miletus biggsi. Subsequewnt work has shown that A phidippus does
indeed occur in S. India but the record for M. biggsi is still unique and
therefore, not included in his list.
No one seems to know when his work on Indian butterflies will be published.
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:35:49 +0530 wrote
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Dear Krushnameghji,
Have you seen Harish Gaonkar's collection ?
Is it housed at the natural history museum, London or some place in India ?
Do you know whether he actually collected all those specimens during his survey
or its more like he collected few, saw few and composed the lists from JBNHS
articles ?
Last question, any idea when is his book ( Series of 5 books according to Dr.
Ghorpade ) is due for release ?
Regards,
Kishen
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Gaurav Agavekar wrote:
that's a huge and very informative paper. thanks for letting us know about it.
cheers,
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Kunte, Krushnamegh wrote:
Gaurav and others, just yesterday I came across this paper:
Bean, A. E. 1968. Occurrence of Spindasis abnormis (Moore), (Lepidoptera:
Lycaenidae) on the Western Ghats: a revised description, including male
genitalia and notes on early development. Journal of the Bombay Natural History
Society, 65: 618-632.
This has a good bit of information about this species. Harish Gaonkar’
Maharashtra distribution must be from this paper, in which several Maharashtra
sightings were reported.
With best wishes,
Krushnamegh.
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From: Gaurav Agavekar
Reply-To: butterflyindia
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:21:51 -0500
To: butterflyindia
Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] a note published on Abnormal Silverline
kishen, we always keep visiting that place in the hope that we'll get some
caterpillars.
cheers,
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Kishen Das wrote:
Keep visiting that place and I am sure some day you will get the life-cycle.
Great job.
Kishen
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 4:44 AM, Gaurav Agavekar wrote:
hello folks,
a note on the sighting of a rare butterfly, Abnormal Silverline Spindasis
abnormis, has been published in the January 2011 issue of Parthenos:
Lovalekar, R., G. Agavekar and K. Kunte. 2011. Spindasis abnormis, the endemic
Abnormal Silverline butterfly of the Western Ghats, southwestern India
(Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Parthenos, Jan. 2011:13-16.
you can download Parthenos here: http://diversityindia.org/Parthenos/
or just the paper here:
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kunte/NaturalHistory.htm
cheers,
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Gaurav Agavekar.
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