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Description: | This specimen is from William Hunter's collection. The specimens were utilised by Fabricius describing new species. The collection contains types from other contemporary entomologists such as Olivier and Drury.
A common butterfly throughout Africa, except in undisturbed rainforest. The species was re-described by Cramer, 1777 as meleagris, referring to the wet season form, which is indeed the one figured here. It was only when this the concept of seasonal variation within a single species was explained by P.O.C. Aurivillius in 1898 that the name of the species was finally stabilized. The comparison with the bird is very apt and also reflected in the schientific genus name. [Torben B. Larsen det.] | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | ARTHINSECT : LEPIDOPTERA : NYMPHALIDAE : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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