A Puma by any other name

[Grkovich, Alex]

How about Nymphalis antiopa: Mourning Cloak, Camberwell Beauty, Trauermantel
etc. (there are some more common names for this species in Eurasia, but I
can't think of them right now.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dr. James Adams [SMTP:jadams at em.daltonstate.edu]
> Sent:	Tuesday, April 02, 2002 10:32 AM
> To:	leps-l at lists.yale.edu
> Subject:	Re:  A Puma by any other name
> 
> Mike Gochfield wrote:
> 
> >But this species [the Puma, Cougar, etc.] is the example that comes to
> >mind whenever I talk about a
> >species that is called many different things in different parts of its 
> >range. I
> >doubt that there are any butterflies that share this nomenclatorial fate.
> 
> Mike, where have you been?  This is exactly what we've been talking 
> about.  There are lots of butterflies that have been given multiple common
> 
> names.  I would suggest that multiple "common" names for a single species 
> is probably the rule rather than the exception for species that are
> widespread.
> 
> For instance:
>          Monarch, Wanderer
>          Painted Lady, Cosmopolitan
>          Mourning Cloak, Camberwell Beauty
> 
> And don't forget one of the main points that many simply choose to ignore 
> -- all the common names that these same bugs have in different 
> languages.  Anybody even know what butterflies Ken was talking about the 
> other day when he used the common names 'traurnitsa' , which he pointed
> out 
> was the same as 'suruvaippa'?
> 
> Mike did correctly point out that the discussion is "about "official
> >English names" or maybe even "official American-English names", 
> >recognizing that
> >speakers of other languages aren't going to use our English names. That 
> >gets us
> >out of the bind of what names are "commonly" used.
> 
> 
> James
> 
> 
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