dear janine, yes, these sightings are very much confirmed, and i can certainly provide you and maan pictures of these species. please send details of your article and brochure on my personal email address, and let's see what we can do.
cheers, At 10:24 AM -0500 1/2/09, Janine Selendy wrote: >Dear Dr. Kunte, > >Congratulations on a successful year for yourself and for the >Butterfly Network. > >I would like to include your listings of added species (in your note >below), if confirmed, on the Horizon Solutions Site in an article I >am expecting from Maan Bacua and on Horizon's brochure. Please >confirm the findings. Do you have images Horizon can use? > >Warm wishes for a Peaceful New Year! > >Janine Selendy > >On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 8:36 PM, ><<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> >wrote: > >dear all, > >2008 has been a wonderful year: we saw a butterfly species added to >the indian butterfly fauna (Chestnut Palmfly, Elymnias obnubila, >from mizoram), and a lizard species added to the indian herpetofauna >(my Japalura sagittifera, from arunachal). arjan added the Tawny >Palmfly (E. panthera) to mainland india, in west bengal. we also saw >the rediscovery of the Scarce Jester (Symbrenthia silana), which had >apparently not been seen since 1910s. we saw pictures of many >species this year that had probably never been photographed in india >before, including aditya joshi's Blue Nawab (Polyura schreiber) in >the anamalais, and rohan and my Marbled Map (Cyrestis cocles) in >meghalaya. kalesh, susanth and others from south india steadily >posted images of adults and early stages of many western ghats >endemics. rudra, bala, nelson and sayendra tiwari posted many >interesting butterflies. rudra, arjan, bala, nelson, rohan, kiran >and others had wonderful trips to the NE, with hundreds of species >photographed. could this year have been more enriching? > >2008 has also seen extremely gratifying developments on the personal >front for me, and i hope that this year has been as exciting to you >as it has been for me. i wish you all the best of luck in 2009, and >hope that we will make it even better and more fruitful! > >best regards, >-- > >Dr. Krushnamegh Kunte > >Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Kronforst Lab) >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: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] or ><mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] > >Academic Website: ><http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ekunte/AcademicsHome.htm>http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kunte/AcademicsHome.htm >General Website: ><http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ekunte/index.htm>http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kunte/index.htm > > > > > >-- >************************************************ >From: Janine M. H. Selendy, Chairman and President, Horizon International >Yale University >Dept. of Biology, New Haven, CT 06520-8103 USA >Yale Tel: 203-432-6266; Cell: 914-329-1323; Direct Fax: 914-669-5298 ><http://www.solutions-site.org>www.solutions-site.org, a >collaborative program with UNDP, UNEP, UNFPA, Unicef, the IDRC, Yale >and Horizon's colleagues at Harvard ><http://www.solutions-site.org/kids>www.solutions-site.org/kids, ><http://www.magicporthole.org>www.magicporthole.org coral reefs ><http://www.horizoninternationaltv.org>www.horizoninternationaltv.org > > -- Dr. Krushnamegh Kunte Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Kronforst Lab) 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] or [email protected] Academic Website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kunte/AcademicsHome.htm General Website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kunte/index.htm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Enjoy -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
