Meaning of Names - Help required

[Patrick Foley]

John,

A handy short guide to Latin and Greek roots of scientific words is 

Borror, Donald J. 1960. Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms. 
Mayfield Publishing Company, Palo Alto, CA.

A guide to the etymology of the generic names would be great, but I have 
never seen one. I believe the family names are mainly those of minor 
gods, muses and such, but they are taken from the type genus for the 
family. Thus Pieris -> Pieridae, Papilio -> papilionidae.

Patrick Foley
patfoley at csus.edu