China butterflies and lepidopterists??

[Michael Gochfeld]

Does anyone know of contacts in the Beijing area on Chinese butterflies, host plants, or butterfly gardens?.

Mike Gochfeld

Norbert Kondla wrote:

> Further to our sharing of thoughts and observations on the nominal
> species eurytheme. It is also rather irregular in its appearance in
> western Canada and people should take the northern Alberta dots in the
> map in Butterflies of Canada with a very large grain of salt. It has
> been showing up more regularly (maybe perception rather than fact) in
> the multitude of recent warmer years and with more people out in the
> field looking at butterflies. From the taxonomy angle we have the
> situation of the taxon eriphyle which is still an 'unresolved' (if
> taxonomic interpretations can ever be resolved) issue. I draw to your
> attention that eriphyle was described as a species by Edwards. I do not
> know why it should be regarded as otherwise. Eriphyle is treated as a
> ssp of philodice in the 1981 Miller and Brown list. But the 1964 dos
> Passos list treats eriphyle as a ssp of eurytheme. McDunnough in his
> 1938 list treated eriphyle as a form of eurytheme. Do we know what the
> species boundaries of the nominal species (as portrayed in recent
> literature without explanation) eurytheme are ?? No we don't. We have
> various published and unpublished interpretations - I do not know which
> is most plausible. But I use the name for communication purposes like
> everyone else :-)
>
>
>
> Norbert Kondla P.Biol., RPBio.
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> PO Box 244
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> colias at shaw.ca
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