Red-spotted Admirals??
Grkovich, Alex
agrkovich at tmpeng.com
Mon Jul 30 07:47:55 EDT 2001
Then what are they going to do with the Viceroy? Is it going to become the
"Orange-Brown White-Spotted Monarch-Like Different-than-all-the-Others
Eastern-Southern-Southwestern Admiral"?
I don't understand any of this, just as I don't see why the Southern and
Northern Hairstreaks are now Oak Hairstreaks.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grkovich, Alex [SMTP:agrkovich at tmpeng.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 7:14 AM
> To: 'kennk at ix.netcom.com'; HpAzures at aol.com; Leps-l at lists.yale.edu
> Subject: RE: Red-spotted Admirals??
>
> I don't know why some are "pandering" so much to "birders" coming into
> "butterflying". What on earth is going on?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kenn Kaufman [SMTP:kennk at ix.netcom.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 1:15 PM
> > To: HpAzures at aol.com; Leps-l at lists.yale.edu
> > Subject: Re: Red-spotted Admirals??
> >
> >
> > Harry Pavulaan wrote:
> >
> > > NABA has revised the common name of Limenitis arthemis astyanax to
> > > "Red-spotted Admiral". I presume this was done in the name of
> > standardizing
> > > genus names. Thus, all Limenitis (correctly Basilarchia?) are now
> > > "Admirals". However, I wonder how many newcomers will now confuse Red
> > > Admirals with Red-spotted Admirals?
> >
> > My comments are not meant as a defense of NABA (their latest
> > checklist strikes me as a step backwards in many ways) but as
> > a clarification. I just looked at the list, and actually they apply the
> > name "Red-spotted Admiral" only to Limenitis arthemis in a
> > larger sense. They continue to apply "Red-spotted Purple" to
> > L. a. astyanax, and "White Admiral" to L. a. arthemis. Not stated,
> > but presumed, I suppose, is that L. a. rubrofasciata would also
> > be a White Admiral, and L. a. arizonensis would also be a
> > Red-spotted Purple, under this system. In practice, the name
> > "Red-spotted Admiral" wouldn't apply to anything we would see
> > in the field or in the trays. The problem with having such a name
> > at all is that birders coming into "butterflying" bring along a
> > prejudice against using English names for subspecies, and
> > they may think it's "correct" to use the larger group name for
> > anything in this complex that they see. --- Anyone on this list
> > who has influence at NABA might suggest that their members
> > be encouraged to continue to use the more precise names for
> > these taxa, and to not use "Red-spotted Admiral" at all.
> >
> > Kenn Kaufman
> > Tucson, AZ
> > kennk at ix.netcom.com
> >
> >
> >
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