Scientific name for social butterfly

[Louis Deaett]

In article <3.0.5.32.20000113014215.00833d60 at mail.utexas.edu>,
drdn at mail.utexas.edu wrote:

> >P.S. There aren't _really_ any social butterflies, are there?
> >
> >
> Oh, yes there are - try *Eucheira socialis* - THE MADRONE BUTTERFLY that
> lives with its young in tents.
> 
> For a conversational term *Papilio socialis* would be appropriate should we
> choose to sink genera and follow Linne with all the butterflies in one
> genus under the senior name.
> .......Chris Durden

Thanks, Chris, and everyone else who responded!  This is exactly what I
was looking for!

But who is this Linne?  Is he some sort of entomologist?  What's the
"senior name"?  This is stuff is confusing to me;  I'm quite uninitiated.

-- Louis