Pupae vs. Chrysalis

[Chris J. Durden]

Stan,
    I don't think a pupa has to have gold or metallic color to be called a 
crysalis. I guess I was just pointing out how thin and arbitrary is the 
division between butterflies and moths - a division that seems only to be 
really important to English-speakers.
.....................Chris Durden

At 08:07 PM 10/21/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>On what basis would you apply the term chrysalis to Hedyliids?  In that
>the term originally appears to have been applied to certain Nymphalids
>that had metallic gold like markings, do some Hedyliid pupae have such
>markings?



 
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