Purple Hairstreak

[Trevor Boyd]

Thank you for giving me the answer to my question.  I asked it merely to
check the correctness for a newsletter I am editing, and not to be
controversial in any way.  I always knew it as quercusia and I don't know
why it had to be changed.  Did Linnaeus give it two names in 1758?  Another
name that mystifies me is Pieris or Artogeia (genus) for the white species.
Can anyone throw light on that one?

Trevor Boyd
Butterfly Conservation Northern Ireland

----- Original Message -----
From: <Guy_VdP at t-online.de>
To: <boyd at glade12.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: "Leps-L" <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: Purple Hairstreak


> Hi,
>
> Leraut, 1997 (Systematic and Synonymic List of the Butterflies of
> France, Belgium and Corsica - 2nd Ed.) lists it as Neozephyrus quercus
> Linnaeus, 1758.
> Neozephyrus was erected by Sibatani & Ito, 1942.
> In many books you will still find it as Quercusia quercus Linnaeus,
> 1758.
> Quercusia was erected by Verity, 1943 (Later than Neozephyrus => it is
> a synonym).
>
> Guy.
>
> Guy Van de Poel
> Guy_VdP at t-online.de
>
> Trevor Boyd schrieb:
> > Can someone please tell me what is the current accepted
> > scientific name for the Purple Hairstreak?  Is it Quercus
> > quercusia or Q. neozephyrus?, and if the latter, who
> > named it and when?
> >
> > Trevor Boyd
> > Butterfly Conservation Northern Ireland
> >
> >
> >
>


 
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