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Volume 2, Issue 3

Tuesday, 31 May 2005

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In this issue:
— News
— e-Museum
— Almanac

Homeosis in Mylothris sulphurea
— This is a male of M. sulphurea from the remote Gotel mountains of Nigeria, collected by Malcolm Warren during an expedition with his brother Robert Warren...

Leps e-News
Volume 2, Issue 3
31 May 2005

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NEWS [View]

The largest Lepidoptera collection reposition
— The Department of Entomology at the Natural History Museum, London, is in the planning stages of its largest move in more than half a century. The present building will be razed to make way for the landmark Darwin Centre II on the same site, scheduled for completion in 2008...

E-MUSEUM [View]

· Dismorphia amphione — The species was described from Surinam by Cramer in 1779...
· Ornithoptera paradisea — One of the most spectacular and rare species, described by Otto Staudinger...
· Sephisa princeps — The species occurs in Amur and Ussuri regions of Russia, NE China and Korea. It was described by Fixsen in 1887...

ALMANAC [View]

· Gallery of lepidopterists

History: Types [NOT ALL CONTAIN PHOTOS]:
· Brintesia circe pannonia [syntype]
· Catasticta cora [types]
· Catasticta modesta [lectotype]
· Catasticta pharnakia styx [holotype]
· Catasticta poujadei lamasi [holotype]
· Coenonympha tullia bosniae [syntypes]
· Erebia alberganus phorcys [lectotype]
· Erebia medusa euphrasia [types]
· Erebia melas leonhardi [syntypes]
· Erebia orientalis [types]
· Euchloe guaymasensis [holotype]
· Ganyra josephina [syntype]
· Ganyra phaloe [types]
· Glennia pylotis [types]
· Hesperocharis anguitia [types]
· Hesperocharis erota [lectotype]
· Hyponephele lycaon salona [syntype]
· Leodonta chiriquensis tingomariae [holotype]
· Melete lycimnia peruviana [holotype]
· Parnassius mnemosyne parnassia [syntypes]
· Pereute leucodrosime caesarea [syntype]
· Piercolias coropunae [holotype]
· Piercolias huanaco [lectotype]
· Plebeius pylaon sephirus [syntype]
· Tatochila xanthodice [types]

History: From the old publications:
— Coenonympha rhodopensis [original description]
— Erebia alberganus phorcys [original description]
— Leodonta chiriquensis tingomariae [original description]