i am glad you caught that! i presume both words have some meaning in latin, but i don't know what. in any case, it is amusing that the names of these two closely related species are anagrams of each other.
both these species are so similar that liomedon was sometimes treated as a subspecies of demolion. cheers, At 10:54 PM +1000 8/30/08, Max Overton wrote: >I love words! Is it coincidence or design that >P. demolion is an anagram of P. liomedon? >Are their markings also similar? > >Max > > > >Novels by Max and/or Ariana Overton >(<http://www.maxoverton.com>www.maxoverton.com) > >The Lion of Scythia Trilogy - EPPIE winners 2005 and 2006 >The Glass House Trilogy (Eppie finalists), A Cry >of Shadows, The Devil is in the Details, >Trapdoor, Tapestry >Scarab - Akhenaten (Book 1 of the Amarnan >Kings), Scarab - Smenkhkare (Book 2 of the >Amarnan Kings), >Scarab - Tutankhamen (Book 3 of the Amarnan >Kings), Rakshasa, Glass Continuum, Ascension >Works in Progress: Scarab - Ay, and Scarab - >Horemheb (Books 4 & 5 of the Amarnan Kings), >Djinn > > >From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 10:45 PM >To: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: FW: [ButterflyIndia] More Tamil Yeomon eggs! > >Papilio liomedon also lays clutches in stacks. >T. R. Bell observed and described this over a >century ago and i think susanth has good >pictures. P. liomedon is related to P. demolion, >so that's no particular surprise. i wonder how >P. gigon lays eggs, that also seems to be very >closely related to P. demolion-liomedon. > >i will check whether Bell describes the stacked >eggs of C. thais, he probably does because he >observed its life-cycle closely. > >At 3:05 AM +0000 8/30/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Has anybody documented the Tamil Yeoman's >>(Cirrochroa thais) apparently remarkable >>juvenile biology? If not, this important >>information needs to be recorded and then >>published. Attached are Internet photos of >>other butterflies having this very rare >>behavior of laying eggs in long "stacks". >> >> >> >>Keith >> >> >> >>From: balakrishnan valappil >><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>To: butterfly india >><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>Subject: [ButterflyIndia] More Tamil Yeomon eggs! >> >>Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:35:53 +0000 >> >> >> >>Thank you Baby for the wonderful shots! >> >>I have seen yeomon laying eggs last november in >>nilambur and photographed atleast five >>different stacks of eggs one of them had a live >>very small insect moving around(see one of the >>pics) possibly feeding on it(?) and one stack >>was fallen and had a different colour and I >>collected two of them carefully,tried my >>levelbest to preserve them but none of the >>eggs hatched! >> >> >> >>balakrishnan valappil >> >> >> >> >>Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:Papilio >>demolion (Southeast.jpg (JPEG/«IC») (003786FB) >>Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:Araschnia >>levana (Europe. A.jpg (JPEG/«IC») (003786FC) >>Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:Hamadryas >>amphinome (Centra.jpg (JPEG/«IC») (003786FD) >> > > >-- > >Krushnamegh Kunte > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Doctoral Student (Gilbert and Juenger Labs) > >Postal Address: > >2401 W. 24th St (and Speedway) >Patterson Laboratories, Room 442 >Section of Integrative Biology >University of Texas at Austin >Austin, TX 78712-1095, USA > >Office: (512) 471-8240 >Cell: (512) 577-1370 >Fax: (512) 471-3878 >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Academic Website: >http://www.bio.utexas.edu/grad/krushnamegh/Moorings/AcademicsHome.htm >General Website: http://www.bio.utexas.edu/grad/krushnamegh/Moorings/index.htm > > -- Krushnamegh Kunte ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Doctoral Student (Gilbert and Juenger Labs) Postal Address: 2401 W. 24th St (and Speedway) Patterson Laboratories, Room 442 Section of Integrative Biology University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-1095, USA Office: (512) 471-8240 Cell: (512) 577-1370 Fax: (512) 471-3878 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Academic Website: http://www.bio.utexas.edu/grad/krushnamegh/Moorings/AcademicsHome.htm General Website: http://www.bio.utexas.edu/grad/krushnamegh/Moorings/index.htm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Enjoy -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
