Common name error? gillettii

Chris J. Durden drdn at mail.utexas.edu
Wed Oct 25 22:37:08 EDT 2000


Probably some confusion with the razor blade or even with the big coal mine
in Wyoming.
..........Chris Durden

At 09:13  25/10/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Many recent books, articles, lists and web sites have been using "Gillette's
>Checkerspot" as the common name for Euphydryas gillettii.  This is rather
>odd because as pointed out in Alberta Butterflies; this butterfly was named
>after Clarence P. Gillett and the common name is spelled "Gillett's".  Cris
>Guppy advises that the first author to use a common name for gillettii is
>Holland (1931) and that he spelled the name "Gillett's".  So my good-natured
>question to people who have been using "Gillette's" is: why have you decided
>to change the spelling of Clarence's last name ?? big smiley :-)
>
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