:-) I meant to say will trace him in person, not over internet :-)). Kishen
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Peter Smetacek < [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hope you do not mean what you say: it sounds too much like Santa Singh and > Banta Singh, you know, who were feeling happy----until happy got disgusted > and left! > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:33:56 +0530 wrote > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ok, if I don't hear about him or his work in next 2-3 years, I will try to > trace him and his work, physically. > I feel such works are important in understanding our butterflies and their > conservation. > > Kishen > > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Peter Smetacek wrote: > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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. > > > ------------------------------------------------- > > 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: 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, > > > -- > Gaurav Agavekar. > > > > > > > > > -- > Gaurav Agavekar. > > > > > > > > -- > Gaurav Agavekar. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > <http://sigads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/click_nx.ads/www.rediffmail.com/signatureline.htm@Middle?> > > > -- Enjoy
