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: [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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
