Broad perspective

[Chris J. Durden]

>Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 21:36:19 -0600
>To: Norbert.Kondla at gems3.gov.bc.ca
>From: "Chris J. Durden" <drdn at mail.utexas.edu>
>Subject: RE: Broad perspective
>In-Reply-To: <60F1FEB31CA3D211A1B60008C7A45F43088F2C6D at blaze.bcsc.GOV.BC.CA>
>
>Reminds me of the Camberwell Beauty, the Lulworth Skipper, the Bath White
and the Compton Tortioshell.
>........Chris Durden
>
>At 11:25  6/11/00 -0800, you wrote:
>>Guess I should not have beaten around the bush :-) My discomfort with these
>>names lies in the fact that the Labrador Sulphur (Colias nastes) has a very
>>large range in North America and the geopolitical entity of Labrador sits at
>>one edge of this large range.  The Rocky Mountain Parnassian (Parnassius
>>smintheus) does live in the Rocky Mtns but as a crude guesstimate I would
>>venture that 60-70% of its range is _outside_ the "Rocks".  In both cases
>>the vernacular names convey a misleading image of the range of the butterfly
>>- altho the names do include places where the bugs flit to and fro.  Kinda
>>like coining the name 'New York Copper' for the widespread eastern Lycaena
>>hypophlaeas (species phlaeas by some peoples' thinking) or Appalachian
>>Anglewing for Polygonia faunus :-) The logic escapes me ----
>> 


 
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