Fw: (TRY 2- Butterfly Names (multicaudata)

Ron Gatrelle gatrelle at tils-ttr.org
Sat Mar 31 19:37:28 EST 2001


(Second send. First one was cut off  in the ether.)
The following is in reference to a question about the correct "Latin"
spelling of Papilio (Pterourus) multicaudata, Kirby 1884.

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Hank & Priscilla Brodkin" <hankb at theriver.com>

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 ...However I find it hard to believe that when  the original list was made
with folks such as Jeff Glassberg, PaulOpler, Brian Cassie, Guy Tudor, and
Harold (did I get the first name right?) Robbins on the committee that they
would let such names get through unless someone had a good reason. Opler
uses multicaudata (p. 44) in his new Peterson guide (Western Butterflies in
the plates area, but uses multicaudatus in the text portion of the book -
p. 141.
Tilden - Smith in the old Western guide uses multicaudatus.  Scott in
his Butterflies of North America uses multicaudata and surely he is old
enough to have taken Latin ;-)
    Did someone once change the generic name of this species to Papilio
from
another feminine generic name and left the species name in the feminine?
Or is there another reason folks are not following the rules of zoological
omenclature here. Paul, Jeff, etc. let me know.  My curiosity is aroused.
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