Ok, thanks for the clarification. I would stick to the Evans' English names till your catalogue is published.
Kishen On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Kunte, Krushnamegh <[email protected] > wrote: > 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 > > > > -- Enjoy
