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Percy Ireland Lathy
Percy Ireland Lathy (1874 – 8 September 1943) was an English entomologist who specialised in butterflies. He was an acquaintance of James John Joicey and was associated with Joicey's Hill Museum in Witley, Surrey. Life and career Percy Ireland Lathy was born in Pulborough, West Sussex, in 1874. He lived for some time at Tillington. Lathy was first assistant to William Watkins, in Eastbourne then curator for Herbert Jordan Adams in Enfield (this collection is now in the Natural History Museum, London). At this time, on Adams' behalf, he collected in the West Indies (especially Jamaica) and South America and employed collectors who were sent to Peru and Dutch New Guinea. He also acquired the Honrath and van de Poll collections for Adams. After Adams' death in 1912, he worked for Cabinet Le Moult in Paris then for Aimée Fournier de Horrack. Aimée Fournier de Horrack was a leading figure in literary and musical circles and had a private butterfly collection containing ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulborough
Pulborough is a large village and civil parish in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England, with some 5,000 inhabitants. It is located almost centrally within West Sussex and is south west of London. It is at the junction of the north–south A29 and the east–west ( A283) roads. The village is near the confluence of the River Arun and the River Rother, on the Stane Street Roman road from London to Chichester. It looks southwards over the broad flood plain of the tidal Arun to a backdrop of the South Downs. It is on the northern boundary of the newly established South Downs National Park. The parish covers an area of 5,183 acres (2,098 hectares). The twelfth-century parish church is dedicated to St Mary. In the 2001 census there were 4,685 people living in 1,976 households of whom 2,333 were economically active. At the 2011 Census the population of Bignor was included and the total population was 5,206. History Historically, it was a fording place over the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Indies
The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that includes 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies and other territories in three major archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago. The subregion includes all the islands in the Antilles, plus The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, which are in the North Atlantic Ocean. Nowadays, the term West Indies is often interchangeable with the term Caribbean, although the latter may also include some Central and South American mainland nations which have Caribbean coastlines, such as Belize, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname, as well as the Atlantic island nations of Barbados, Bermuda, and Trinidad and Tobago, all of which are geographically distinct from the three main island groups, but culturally related. Origin and use of the term In 1492, Christopher Columbus became the first European to record his arri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papilionidae
Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies in the family Papilionidae, and include over 550 species. Though the majority are tropical, members of the family inhabit every continent except Antarctica. The family includes the largest butterflies in the world, the birdwing butterflies of the genus ''Ornithoptera''. Swallowtails have a number of distinctive features; for example, the papilionid caterpillar bears a repugnatorial organ called the osmeterium on its prothorax. The osmeterium normally remains hidden, but when threatened, the larva turns it outward through a transverse dorsal groove by inflating it with fluid. The forked appearance in some of the swallowtails' hindwings, which can be seen when the butterfly is resting with its wings spread, gave rise to the common name ''swallowtail''. As for its formal name, Linnaeus chose ''Papilio'' for the type genus, as ''papilio'' is Latin for "butterfly". For the specific epithets of the genus, Linnaeus applied th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prepona
''Prepona'' is a genus of Neotropical charaxine butterflies in the family Nymphalidae. They are strong fliers in tropical forests where they feed on fermenting fruits and animal dung. The underside of the wings is pale greyish or brownish, while the upperside is dark with distinct iridescent blue markings. A few species also have orange markings on the upperside of the wings. They are popular among butterfly collectors. '' Prepona deiphile'' is considered a threatened species in Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Description "They are very robust insects, measuring four inches across the wings, which are broad and dentated, with the tip of the fore-wings much produced, but not falcate, the hind-margin being oblique and then nearly straight below; near the inner-margin of the hind-wings of the males stands a yellow tuft of stiff hair ( androconial tuft), as in ''Agrias''. The wings are black, and are generally crossed by a broad blue or greenish-blue band, often interrupted below the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catagramma
''"Catagramma"'' is an obsolete genus of Neotropical butterflies; the name continues to be used e.g. among butterfly collectors as a form taxon. ''"Catagramma"'' species are popularly known as 88s, in reference to a pattern on the hindwing undersides of many that looks like the number 88. They are medium-sized (around 5 cm (2 in) wingspan) forest insects. The genus once contained over 100 species, essentially being a "wastebin taxon" for what was then already recognized of the clade that became the tribe Callicorini in 1952. The members of ''"Catagramma"'' are now divided among the related genera ''Callicore'', '' Catacore'', ''Diaethria'', '' Paulogramma'' and '' Perisama''; others (like '' Cyclogramma'') are not often considered distinct anymore however. These genera have been found to be close relatives of '' Antigonis'' and '' Haematera'', which like them are in the Callicorini. Jean Baptiste Boisduval lumped this conspicuous group of Callicorini during his epi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agrias
''Agrias'' is a genus of Neotropical charaxine nymphalid butterflies found in South and Central America. The German lepidopterist Hans Fruhstorfer wrote: "In this magnificent tropical genus, upon which nature seems to have showered all her abundance of most brilliant colours, and which is, therefore, justly called the 'princely race' of the Nymphalidae, we are most surprised to meet a repetition of two genera of not less abundant colours: the '' Callithea'' and ''Catagramma'', except that the ''Agrias'' species greatly excel the latter in size and magnificent colours, and only the males of this genus bear a sexual distinction in the shape of a hair-brush on the hindwings. Some of them, like the famous '' A. sardanapalus'', having been first discovered by Bates in the Amazon Valley, are of an absolutely charming beauty, and the contrast of its purple-red forewings beaming through a blue lustre hued over them as if in a violet purple gloss, with the brilliantly sapphire-blue hindw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morpho (genus)
The morpho butterflies comprise many species of Neotropical butterfly under the genus ''Morpho''. This genus includes more than 29 accepted species and 147 accepted subspecies, found mostly in South America, Mexico, and Central America. ''Morpho'' wingspans range from for '' M. rhodopteron'' to for ''M. hecuba'', the imposing sunset morpho. The name ''morpho'', meaning "changed" or "modified", is also an epithet. Blue morphos are severely threatened by the deforestation of tropical forests and habitat fragmentation. Humans provide a direct threat to this spectacular creature because their beauty attracts artists and collectors from all over the globe who wish to capture and display them. Aside from humans, birds like the jacamar and flycatcher are the adult butterfly’s natural predators. Taxonomy and nomenclature Many names attach to the genus ''Morpho''. The genus has also been divided into subgenera. Hundreds of form, variety, and aberration names are used among ''Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aimée Fournier De Horrack
Aimée Fournier de Horrack (30 August 1876 – 25 February 1952) was a French entomologist. She is also known as Mlle de Horrack and Mme Gaston Fournier. Aimée Fournier was a butterfly collector. She lived in Paris at 90, Boulevard Malesherbes. Her collection is in Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. She is honoured in the name '' Charaxes fournierae''. Works 1921 with Percy Ireland Lathy Percy Ireland Lathy (1874 – 8 September 1943) was an English entomologist who specialised in butterflies. He was an acquaintance of James John Joicey and was associated with Joicey's Hill Museum in Witley, Surrey. Life and career Percy Ire ... 'Thèses entomologiques (Lepidoptéres) : notes et remarques sur les Agrias : aquarelles de Mlles de La Roche et Trottet, MM. d'Apreval, Houlbert et Rouy d'apre's les originaux de Mlle du Puigaudeau (Odix)''. fascicule 1 Paris : . de Malherbe References * Groll, E. K. (ed.): ''Biografien der Entomologen der Welt: Datenbank''. Version 4.15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Le Moult
Eugène Le Moult (31 December 1882, Quimper – 26 January 1967, Paris) was a French naturalist and entomologist specialised in butterflies; hunter, businessman and collector. Le Moult grew up in the tropical prison colony of French Guiana, where his cash-strapped organic-farmer father had taken a post to develop the road network. Here the adolescent discovered the beauty of the area's ''Morpho'' butterflies, and set about hunting and selling them to mainland France. French Guiana's only butterfly exporter from 1903 to 1920, Le Moult turned his business into the country's third largest industry, after gold and precious woods. To enlarge his collection he started to recruit hunters. In Guyana, at the time, the question of labour was simple: you had to use convicts. Therefore, for those men in "striped shirts", hunting butterflies became the prize for good conduct. The Steve McQueen/Dustin Hoffman movie '' Papillon'' references this. Three years after moving back to Paris in 190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob R
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jacob first appears in the Book of Genesis, where he is described as the son of Isaac and Rebecca, and the grandson of Abraham, Sarah, and Bethuel. According to the biblical account, he was the second-born of Isaac's children, the elder being Jacob's fraternal twin brother, Esau. Jacob is said to have bought Esau's Primogeniture, birthright and, with his mother's help, deceived his aging father to bless him instead of Esau. Later in the narrative, following a severe drought in his homeland of Canaan, Jacob and his descendants, with the help of his son Joseph (Genesis), Joseph (who had become a confidant of the pharaoh), moved to Biblical Egypt, Egypt where Jacob died at the age of 147. He is supposed to have been buried in the Cave of Machpela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Honrath
Eduard Gustav Honrath (11 August 1837, in Coblenz – 19 April 1893, in Berlin) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera, particularly ''Parnassius''. Honrath was a well-known art dealer in Berlin. Among his entomological achievements, he described ''Parnassius graeseri'' (1885) (now '' Parnassius bremeri graeseri'' (a subspecies), '' Parnassius stenosemus'' and '' Papilio neumoegeni'' (both 1890) in the ''Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift''. He was a member of the Entomological Society of Berlin, and its president for many years. References *Benezit Dictionary of Artists The ''Benezit Dictionary of Artists'' (in French, ''Bénézit: Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs'') is an extensive publication of bibliographical information on painters, sculptors, designers and engravers create ... (in French, Bénézit ''Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs'') Éditions Gründ, Paris.(1911). *Anonym 1893 onr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch New Guinea
Dutch New Guinea or Netherlands New Guinea ( nl, Nederlands-Nieuw-Guinea, id, Nugini Belanda) was the western half of the island of New Guinea that was a part of the Dutch East Indies until 1949, later an overseas territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1949 to 1962. It contained what are now Indonesia's five easternmost provinces, Central Papua, Highland Papua, Papua, South Papua, and West Papua, which were administered as a single province prior to 2003 under the name ''Irian Jaya'', and now comprise the Papua region of the country. During the Indonesian Revolution, the Dutch launched a police action ("Operation Product") to capture territory from the Indonesian Republic. However, the harsh methods of the Dutch had drawn international disapproval. With international opinion shifting towards support of the Indonesian Republic, the Dutch managed in 1949 to negotiate for the separation of Dutch New Guinea from the broader Indonesian settlement, with the fate of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
