The Scientific Names of the British Lepidoptera : : Their History and Meaning / / A. Maitland Emmet.
An Introduction, giving notes on Nomenclature, Classification and Conventions; and Terms and Abbreviations, is followed by a History of the Scientific Nomenclature of Lepidoptera. In the Systematic Section, the meanings of over 4000 names are given. The nomenclature is that of Kloet & Hincks (19...
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Place / Publishing House: | Colchester, England : : Harley Books (B. H. & A. Harley Ltd.),, [1991] ©1991 |
Year of Publication: | 1991 |
Edition: | First edition. |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Nomenclature, classification and conventions
- Terms and abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- A History of the Scientific Nomenclature of Lepidoptera
- A book for the curious
- Literature devoted to the explanation of scientific names
- Names before Linnaeus
- Linnaeus
- The specific names of Linnaeus
- Specific names after Linnaeus
- Generic names
- Suprageneric names
- The scientific name of an insect as used today
- Why scientific names sometimes need to be changed
- Systematic Section
- Micropterigidae
- Eriocraniidae
- Hepialidae
- Nepticulidae
- Opostegidae
- Tischeriidae
- Incurvariidae
- Heliozelidae
- Cossidae
- Zygaenidae
- Limacodidae
- Psychidae
- Tineidae
- Ochsenheimeriidae
- Lyonetiidae
- Bucculatricidae
- Gracillariidae
- Sesiidae
- Choreutidae
- Glyphipterigidae
- Douglasiidae
- Heliodinidae
- Yponomeutidae
- Epermeniidae
- Schreckensteiniidae
- Coleophoridae
- Elachistidae
- Oecophoridae
- Gelechiidae
- Blastobasidae
- Momphidae
- Cosmopterigidae
- Scythrididae
- Tortricidae
- Alucitidae
- Pyralidae
- Pterophoridae
- Hesperiidae
- Papilionidae
- Pieridae
- Lycaenidae
- Nymphalidae
- Lasiocampidae
- Saturniidae
- Endromidae
- Drepanidae
- Thyatiridae
- Geometridae
- Sphingidae
- Notodontidae
- Thaumetopoeidae
- Lymantriidae
- Arctiidae
- Ctenuchidae
- Nolidae
- Noctuidae
- Agaristidae
- Appendixes
- 1. People commemorated in the names of Lepidoptera
- 2. Geographical names
- 3. Unresolved names
- 4. Apparent errors in R. D. Macleod's Key to the names of the British butterflies and moths
- References
- Indexes
- Index of scientific names
- Special index to the Phycitinae
- List of monochrome plates.