Kishen, since you mentioned a different English name for this species in parenthesis with my name attached to it, here's an important clarification: I had provided only scientific names and subspecies-level information to the recent Ghorpade-Kunte paper on Palni Hills butterflies, from which you took this name. English names used in this paper were completely invented by Dr. Kumar Ghorpade. The English names that I prefer were given in Evans' 1932 book, and those are used pretty widely. I have changed names only in cases of offensive names (e.g., Dusky Partwing instead of Coon) or when subspecies have been elevated to species level (e.g., Pelopidas sinensis and P. subochracea), in addition to giving English names to all Indian subspecies. These will be given in my upcoming Catalogue and are also used on the Butterflies of India website.
Cheers, --- Krushnamegh Kunte, PhD Post-doctoral Research Fellow FAS Center for Systems Biology Harvard University 52 Oxford St Northwest Lab Room 458.40-3 Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Ph: (617) 496-0078 Cell: (512) 577-1370 Fax: (617) 495-2196 Email: [email protected] Other emails: [email protected], [email protected] Personal website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kunte/index.htm Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ Google profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/krushnamegh ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kishen Das [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 12:39 AM To: Admin Subject: [ButterflyIndia] Butterfly Quiz 12 : Session 2 Dear All, This week's question - ID the attached photo. Please reply your answers only to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> and not to the entire group. Last week's answer: Melanitis leda Linnaeus - Common Evening Brown ( KK: Familiar Evening Brown) Winners: Pranav Balasubramanian, Gaurav Agavekar, Tanmaye Heblekar, Toshita Barve, Hemant Ogale Kishen ------------------------------------ --- Follow http://twitter.com/DiversityIndia ---Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ButterflyIndia/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ButterflyIndia/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -- Enjoy
