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Volume 1, Issue 1

Thursday, 11 March 2004

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In this issue:
— In the literature
— Digital library
— History of lepidopterology

Leps e-News
Volume 1, Issue 1
11 March 2004

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IN THE LITERATURE
The Morpho

At last, after a weary week, the day had come and the hour. I ask you to picture the shaded sitting-room of the Fazenda St. Ignatio, two miles inland from the town of Manaos. Outside lay the yellow, brassy glare of the sunshine, with the shadows of the palm trees as black and definite as the trees themselves. The air was calm, full of the eternal hum of insects, a tropical chorus of many octaves, from the deep drone of the bee to the high, keen pipe of the mosquito... [Read more]

DIGITAL LIBRARY [View]

— Scientific articles with lepidopterological content. Currently it contains links to 54 publications, arranged alphabetically (mainly in PDF format).

HISTORY OF PIERIDOLOGY [View]

Abadjiev, S. A., Alexander Kirilow Drenowski (1879—1967)
— Alexander Kirilow Drenowski was born on 22 July 1879 in Ruse. He graduated secondary school in Ruse, and higher school in the University of Sofia in 1903 (Natural Sciences). His teacher in natural history was W. Kowatschew... [Read more]

Korolev, V. A. & V. S. Murzin, Grigorii Efimovich Grumm-Grshimailo (1860—1936)
— A great contribution to Russian and world entomology was made by Grigorii Efimovich Grumm-Grshimailo, a prominent lepidopterist, traveller, geographer and ethnographer. He was born in St. Petersburg... [Read more]

Korolev, V. A. & V. S. Murzin, Sergei Nikolaevich Alphéraky (1850—1918)
— The outstanding Russian lepidopterist Sergei Nikolaevich Alphéraky, a Honorary Member of the RES, was a contemporary of N. M. Romanoff... In 1871 Alphéraky moved to Dresden where he worked under the supervision of the famous O. Staudinger... [Read more]

Colias erschoffii Alphéraky, 1881
— Facsimile of the original description. [View]