Poanes aaroni---Aaron's Skipper flying in South Jersey

[Michael Gochfeld]

My miss-spelling of Poanes (as Poanese) does NOT constitute a taxonomic
revision, but miss-spellings have figured prominently in past taxonomic
issues.  In a chapter I wrote on shorebird taxonomy we used the spelling
"ocrophus" for the Green Sandpiper (Tringa ocrophus), which is the
original Linnaean spelling and was an obvious miss-spelling for
"ochropus" (perhaps meaning green-legged) which was a spelling already
in use and was presumably what Linnaeus intended. 

In our footnote we noted that "modern usage shows a strong preference
for ochropus...."

Indeed, for over a hundred years almost all books had spelled it
ochropus.  I'm pretty sure we were wrong in sticking with the original
Linnaean spelling. 

In another example, the issue of a miss-print as opposed to a
miss-spelling came up, where the first appearance of the name was
spelled one way, and later in the same text it was spelled consistently
another way.  In that case, the initial appearance was assumed to be a
miss-print (a typo) as opposed to a miss-spelling (an error in
knowledge).

What do some of the code afficionados have to contribute to those
examples. 

Mike Gochfeld

Michael Gochfeld wrote:
> 
> Poanese aaroni (Aaron's Skipper) was flying in fair numbers (more than a
> dozen seen in 5 min) at Goshen, New Jersey (Cape May County) yesterday
> (May 30,2002).  The New Jersey Audubon Society operates an excellent
> nature center at Goshen with a substantial butterfly garden.  Aaron's
> were nectaring at several species.
> 
> This is a species that frequents salt marshes where its presumed host is
> Distichlis spicata (has that been documented elsewhere?).  But actually
> it is more frequently encountered in meadows and gardens, up to a mile
> or more inland from salt marsh.  The first Panoquina panoquin (Salt
> Marsh Skipper) was also seen in the garden yesterday (May 30).
> 
> Michael Gochfeld
> 
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