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"Nabokov's Blue" (fwd)
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From: sam schuman <schumans@mrs.umn.edu>
Am I somehow missing something, or just revealing my lepidopterical
ignorance? In the enlightening and excellent NABOKOV'S BLUES aren't there
mentioned two different butterflies which have the common name "Nabokov's
Blue:" a Minnesota subspecies "Lycaeides idas nabokovi" (p. 317) and
"Lycaeides idas subliven" (p. 330). Is it "common" for more than one
variety of animal to have the same common name? ("Aye, Madame, it is
common..."). Is the first of these a subgroup of the second? I do
understand that "subspecies" is a somewhat biologically suspect concept.
Sam
Samuel Schuman
Chancellor
The University of Minnesota, Morris
Morris, MN 56267
schumans@caa.mrs.umn.edu
320-589-6015
Am I somehow missing something, or just revealing my lepidopterical
ignorance? In the enlightening and excellent NABOKOV'S BLUES aren't there
mentioned two different butterflies which have the common name "Nabokov's
Blue:" a Minnesota subspecies "Lycaeides idas nabokovi" (p. 317) and
"Lycaeides idas subliven" (p. 330). Is it "common" for more than one
variety of animal to have the same common name? ("Aye, Madame, it is
common..."). Is the first of these a subgroup of the second? I do
understand that "subspecies" is a somewhat biologically suspect concept.
Sam
Samuel Schuman
Chancellor
The University of Minnesota, Morris
Morris, MN 56267
schumans@caa.mrs.umn.edu
320-589-6015