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Butterflies and Moths in Nabokov's Published Writings By Work and Page Part 4: 2000 This index does not include the butterflies and moths in Nabokov's strictly technical papers. The arrows [»] are hyperlinks to the corresponding entry in the alphabetical sections or to the biographical page. All stories are in Part 3, under »STORIES (1995).
NABOKOV'S BUTTERFLIES (2000), ed. Brian Boyd & Robert Michael Pyle Listed are only specific taxa from writings not published before in English. BE = "Butterflies of Europe" (in »Part 3) FB = "Father's Butterflies" (in »Part 1) I = interview L = letter P = poem
98 (L) rhamni [»Gonepteryx rhamni] 98 (L) brassicae [»Pieris brassicae] 98 (L) egerias [»Pararge aegeria] 105–7 (P) »Moths 107 (P) a puffy »silkmoth, / speckled, like a fallen leaf [»Aglia tau, »Saturniidae] 107 (P) a black hawk-moth / with a pearl V on the knotty vein [»Agrius convolvuli] 107 (P) a tiny fan with a lucent fringe [»Alucita] 107 (P) a meek old man, a monk in a dark cassock [not enough information for identification] 107 (P) their empress, the bride on the breeze: / two ribbons of velvet on pink satin, / flamingo dust at the end of its abdomen [»Catocala (pacta)] 109 Butterfly, butterfly! Black with scarlet bands [»Vanessa atalanta] 119 (L) I found on a linden tree … a wonderfully rare moth – the dream of German collectors [»Staurophora celsia] 120 (L) »Kardakov, [»Moltrecht] 121 (P) swallowtail [»Papilio machaon] 123 (P) a semi-pavonian creature [»Saturnia pavonia] 147 (L) a perfectly wonderful Podalirius [»Iphiclides podalirius] 147 (L) machaon [»Papilio machaon] 148 (L) I went to see »Obenberger at the entomological museum again 151 (L) A very nice machaon ... lying in the blazing Grunewald sun and counted eleven species of butter, including a very fresh machaon [»Papilio machaon] 156 (P) A geometrid thus does not stir spread flat on a lichened trunk [»Geometridae] 198-234 "Father's Butterflies" (FB), see under »Dar II (1939?) 236 (L) I am writing »Avinov 244 There is a species of butterfly on the hindwing of which a large eyespot imitates a drop of liquid [»Cerura vinula] 247 (L) describing a new species (I discovered a wonderful thing in the Grand Cañon) [»Cyllopsis pertepida] 248 (L) paper on the Neonympha [»Lep5, 1942] 248 (L) henshawi [»Cyllopsis pertepida dorothea] 248 (L) pyracmon [»Cyllopsis pyracmon] 249 (L) Dr. »Avinov 249 (L) sending me those »Neonympha 250 (P) having missed an Apollo [»Parnassius] 265 (L) Some New or Little Known Nearctic »Neonympha [»Lep5, 1942] 268 (L) wonderful Hesperids and various sorts of Pierids [»Hesperiidae, »Pieridae] 268 (L) one of the very broad local »Papilios 268 (L) I'll send eubule, the most prominent local butterfly [»Phoebis sennae eubule] 268 (L) he worked on »Sphingids 268 (L) one large long-tailed Hesperid, with a kind of peacock fluff on its body [»Urbanus proteus] 268 (L) shoving my way through the shrubbery after some »Thecla 269 (L) a wonderful longtailed Hesperid [»Urbanus proteus] 270 (L) Look after the »Pierids (»Pieris, »Colias, »Euchloe, and so on) when you have repinned all the »Satyrids 273 (L) my »Lysandra cormion 276 (L) the numerous forms of »Lycaeides fall into five specific unities … : argyrognomon … ismenias … cleobis … melissa … agnata 293 annetta [»Plebejus melissa annetta] 293 melissa melissa [»Plebejus melissa ] 294 Glaucopsyche oro [»Glaucopsyche lygdamus oro] 295 Argynnis bischoffi [»Speyeria mormonia bischoffii] 297 icarioides and allied species [»Aricia icarioides] 297 the nearctic »Lycaeides 300 (L) the Nearctic Forms of »Lycaeides 300 an Argynninae and a »Plebejinae [»Argynnini] 302 his »Catochrysopinae or Everinae [»Plebejinae] 302 »Kuznetsov (l.c.) in one of his profoundest 302 By »Lycaeides "form" I understand a morphological unity 303 the »Plebejinae subfamily 303 The »Lycaeides is one of the most "natural genera" 303 melissa samuelis [»Plebejus samuelis] 304 argyrognomon anna [»Plebejus idas anna] 304 the Colorado scudderi [»Plebejus idas scudderi] 306 the American scudderi and the Asiatic cleobis [»Plebejus idas scudderi, »Plebejus subsolanus] 306 subsolanus [»Plebejus subsolanus] 309 »Staudinger 309 a new species of »Parnassius 309 »Grum Grzhimailo 309 the "argus" group [»Plebejus argus] 310 »Grum Grzhimaïlo 310 »Alpheraky 310 »Forster 313 (L) disa [»Erebia disa] 336 Dr. »S[t]audinger 336 »Latreille considered »Fabricius a pernicious splitter 336 a race of Agr. pheretes from the Swiss Alps [»Albulina orbitulus] 338 »Mayr follows »Dobzhansky and other authors in defining "species" as "groups of actually or potentially interbreeding "populations" 340 »Huxley 340 a beautifully limited "natural" genus (»Aricia) 342 every species of »Lycaeides is polytypic 343 Rensch 345 criticizing the definitions of »Huxley and of »Mayr 347 (L) Some time ago »Stallings informed me that »Chermock was sending out specimens with new names 347 (L) Paul »Grey 347 (L) my longish paper on certain questions concerning »Lycaeides is to appear very soon 348 (L) camera lucida drawings I made of hanno hanno and of huntingtoni [»Hemiargus hanno, »Echinargus huntingtoni] 383 (L) In the case of ammon [»Cyclargus ammon] 383 (L) »Agriades glandon and »Agriades pyrenaica 383 (L) I am very much interested in the material you mention, especially the »Plebejinae: hanno-bogotana-ramon-martha-chilensis-koa-collina-faga-excisicosta. (Cassius, callanga, marina belong to another subfamily »Catochrysopinae, and tulliola is cyna = Zizula gaika Trimen) [»Hemiargus hanno, »Hemiargus bogotana, »Hemiargus ramon, »Echinargus martha, »Pseudolucia chilensis, »Madeleinea koa, »Pseudolucia collina, »Nabokovia faga, »Leptotes cassius, »Leptotes callanga, »Leptotes marina, »Zizula cyna, »Zizula hylax] 385 (L) to the vast disgust of »Field 385 (L) a specimen of one of the rarest "psittacoid" S. American »Theclinae 385 (L) »Grey's Argynninae papers [»Argynnini] 385 (L) sympatric individuals of aphrodite and cybele [»Speyeria aphrodite, »Speyeria cybele] 398 (L) P. glaucus [»Papilio glaucus] 398 (L) P. rapae [»Pieris rapae] 398 (L) C. philodice (and x eurytheme) [»Colias philodice, »Colias eurytheme] 398 (L) S. cybele [»Speyeria cybele] 398 (L) aphrodite [»Speyeria aphrodite] 398 (L) atlantis [»Speyeria atlantis] 398 (L) A. bellona [»Clossiana bellona] 398 (L) A. selene [»Clossiana selene] 398 (L) E. phaeton [»Euphydryas phaeton] 398 (L) P. tharos [»Phyciodes tharos] 398 (L) P. faunus [»Polygonia faunus] 398 (L) progne [»Polygonia progne] 398 (L) E. l-album [»Nymphalis vau-album] 398 (L) antiopa [»Nymphalis antiopa] 398 (L) milberti [»Aglais milberti] 398 (L) V. atalanta [»Vanessa atalanta] 398 (L) huntera [»Vanessa virginiensis] 398 (L) B. arthemis [»Basilarchia arthemis] 398 (L) archippus [»Basilarchia archippus] 398 (L) C. alope [»Cercyonis pegala alope] 398 (L) E. portlandia [»Enodia portlandia] 398 (L) S. canthus [»Satyrodes eurydice eurydice] 398 (L) C. euritis [no such species] 398 (L) D. plexippus [»Danaus plexippus] 398 (L) T. calanus [»Satyrium calanus] 398 (L) Ch. titus [»Harkenclenus titus] 398 (L) F. tarquinius [»Feniseca tarquinius] 398 (L) L. phlaeas [»Lycaena phlaeas] 398 (L) thoe [»Hyllolycaena hyllus] 398 (L) E. comyntas [»Everes comyntas] 398 (L) C. argiolus [»Celastrina argiolus] 398 (L) A. samoset (belated) [»Amblyscirtes hegon] 398 (L) A. numitor [»Ancyloxypha numitor] 398 (L) A. zabulon [»Poanes zabulon] 398 (L) T. otho [»Wallengrenia otho] 398 (L) mystic [»Polites mystic] 398 (L) P. peckius [»Polites coras] 398 (L) E. tityrus [»Epargyreus clarus clarus] 398 (L) Th. pylades [»Thorybes pylades] 400 (L) Argynninae … »Plebejinae [»Argynnini] 400 (L) Paul »Grey 405 (L) all but idiala and diana [»Speyeria idalia, »Speyeria diana] 405 (L) all the Semnopsyche section [»Speyeria] 405 (L) a race of aphrodite [»Speyeria aphrodite] 405 (L) edwardsi [»Speyeria edwardsii] 405 (L) atlantis [»Speyeria atlantis] 406 (L) cybele novoscotiae [»Speyeria cybele novoscotiae] 406 (L) lais [»Speyeria atlantis lais] 406 (L) cybele pugetensis F.Cherm. [»Speyeria cybele pugetensis] 406 (L) races of nitocris [»Speyeria nokomis nitrocris] 406 (L) I cannot distinguish atlantis hollandi or atlantis canadensis from atlantis atlantis [»Speyeria atlantis atlantis, »Speyeria atlantis hollandi, »Speyeria atlantis canadensis] 406 (L) The zerene forms from Utah and Nevada [»Speyeria zerene] 406 (L) Egleis mcdunnoughi is very variable in Wyoming grading into oweni or utahensis [»Speyeria egleis macdunnoughi, »Speyeria egleis oweni, »Speyeria egleis utahensis] 406 (L) a Montana form of aphrodite, a Yakima River, Washington, form of callippe and the pale brick … Vancouver Island form of egleis deserve names [»Speyeria aphrodite, »Speyeria callippe, »Speyeria egleis] 406 (L) mormonia and eurynome … zerene platina [»Speyeria mormonia, »Speyeria mormonia eurynome, »Speyeria zerene platina] 406 (L) atlantis electa [»Speyeria atlantis electa] 406 (L) edwardsi [»Speyeria edwardsii] 406 (L) aphrodite ethne [»Speyeria aphrodite ethne] 406 (L) atlantis hesperis [»Speyeria atlantis hesperis] 406 (L) zerene sinope [»Speyeria zerene sinope] 406 (L) callippe meadi [»Speyeria callippe meadii] 408 (L) working on the »Melitea and »Phyciodes 408 (L) nycteis and gorgone are much closer to Mel. harrisii than they are to the tharos group [»Charidryas nycteis, »Charidryas gorgone, »Charidryas harrisii, »Phyciodes tharos] 408 (L) »Strecker 408 (L) »Scudder 408 (L) Unless »Holland's photo of hanhami is not that of the type [»Charidryas harrisii hanhami] 408 (L) Orseis of which we have pair from »Edwards … seems to be a dark race of mylitta (incl. barnesi …) [»Phyciodes orseis, »Phyciodes mylitta, »Phyciodes pallida barnesi] 408 (L) Picta is, I think, co-specific with phaon… while vesta is distinct [»Phyciodes pictus, »Phyciodes phaon, »Phyciodes vesta] 408 (L) I have found … specimens … of batesi [»Phyciodes batesii] 409 (L) Freija was practically over when I arrived [»Clossiana freija] 409 (L) selene tollandensis [»Clossiana selene tollandensis] 409 (L) S. eurynome [»Speyeria mormonia eurynome] 445 If »Plebejus is used in a broad sense … (= my »Plebejinae), then »Hemiargus cannot be separated from it 445 »Philotes holarctically grades into »Scolitantides which is the same as »Phaedrotes and the latter is much closer to »Glaucopsyche than say »Plebejus s.str. to »Lycaeides s.str. 445 What »Brephidium … is doing in cette galère 447 (L) I am trying to discover lygdamus here [»Glaucopsyche lygdamus] 448 (L) your [Klots'] paper on the »Brenthis + »Colias 448 (L) Boloria selene [»Clossiana selene] 448 (L) L. thoe [»Hyllolycaena hyllus] 448 (L) tollandensis [»Clossiana selene tollandensis] 448 (L) puzzled by a dark »Oeneis which seems to belong to the Jutta group [»Oeneis jutta] 448 (L) L. phlaeas [»Lycaena phlaeas] 448 (L) the Blue between melissa and scudderi [»Plebejus melissa, »Plebejus idas scudderi] 448 (L) I envy you terribly for obtaining laeta in Vermont [»Erora laeta] 450 (L) sending my drawings of all the Nearctic »Plebejinae (except the genus »Lycaeides which is now sufficiently known). These genera (»Plebejus, »Agriades, »Plebulina, »Icaricia … 465 (L) »Scolitantides 465 (L) lygdamus, the battoides group and piasus are linked up generically … and thus should all be included in »Scolitantides [»Glaucopsyche lygdamus, »Euphilotes battoides, »Glaucopsyche piasus] 465 (L) lygdamus, enoptes and piasus as being really one, »Scolitantides Hübner, of which Papilio battus /Schiff./, 1775, is the type [»Glaucopsyche lygdamus, »Euphilotes enoptes, »Glaucopsyche piasus 465 (L) Skinneri is quite certainly a race of pelidne which, in its turn, interbreeds with palaeno [»Colias pelidne skinneri, »Colias palaeno] 469 (L) Plebejus ismenias aegus [»Lycaeides ismenias] 469 (L) »Eupithecia nabokovi 478 (L) My specimens of »Lycaena phlaeas feildeni … were taken in the Teton Mts. 478 (L) Snowi, which I have taken many times in various parts of Colorado [»Lycaena cupreus snowi] 478 (L) cannot be compared to virgaureae or dispar forms [»Heodes virgaureae, »Thersamolycaena dispar] 478 (L) my phlaeas form [»Lycaena phlaeas] 485 (L) the »High Brown and the Monarch [»Fabriciana adippe, »Danaus plexippus] 486 (L) High Brown [»Fabriciana adippe] 486 (L) "cydippe" is a silvered "niobe" …? [»Fabriciana adippe, »Fabriciana niobe] 486 (L) »Hemming, »Riley and »Verity 486 (L) phryxa Bergstrasser [»Fabriciana adippe] 486 (L) Fabriciana berecynthia (Poda) … Fabriciana phryxa (Bergstrasser) [»Fabriciana adippe] 487 (L) the First Reviser of "plexippus" is Linnaeus himself [»Danaus plexippus] 489 »Danaus chrysippus … and »Vanessa cardui both common in Egypt 495 (L) the cardui origin question [»Vanessa cardui] 495 (L) cannot remember the exact structural difference between »Neominois and »Hipparchia 495 (L) [N.] j-album and l-album belong to the same species [»Nymphalis vau-album, »Nymphalis vau-album j-album] 495 (L) N. antiopa [»Nymphalis antiopa] 496 (L) »Echinargus isola 496 (L) Bethune Baker's assigning isola to Hemiargus was a blunder [»Echinargus isola] 496 (L) What I call »Plebejinae … consists of 24 genera … I am perfectly willing … to call the group: Plebejus, consisting of 24 subgenera, among which should be »Hemiargus and »Echinargus 497 (L) my Neonympha maniola [»Cyllopsis pertepida maniola] 497 (L) dorothea [»Cyllopsis pertepida dorothea] 497 (L) henshawi Edw. (the Northern form of the Mexican pyracmon) [»Cyllopsis pertepida dorothea] 497 (L) the local representative of »Erora laeta and other nice little things 498 (L) shasta [»Aricia shasta] 498 (L) »Erora laeta 498 (L) some of my Neonymphas [see »Neonympha sp. and »Cyllopsis sp.] 501 (L) sublivens [»Plebejus idas sublivens] 501 (L) the true smintheus hermodur (Henry »Edwards) [»Parnassius phoebus smintheus, »Parnassius phoebus sayii] 502 (P) a heavenly sphinx [»Sphingidae, »hawk moths] 513 that »Eupithecia nabokovi McDunnough 513 my blue samuelis [»Plebejus samuelis] 516 (L) I want to revisit emigdionis, neurona [»Plebejus emigdionis, »Aricia neurona] 519 (L) the correct genus of this "shasta comstocki" is by the way Icaricia Nabokov, 1944 [»Aricia shasta shasta] 521 (L) "Nabokov's Wood Nymph" [»Cyllopsis pertepida dorothea] 523 (L) "Nabokov's Wood Nymph" [»Cyllopsis pertepida dorothea] 524 Sorted out the »Speyeria I caught in Wyoming 524 rare egleis secreta from the Sierra Madre [»Speyeria egleis secreta] 524 tiny cybele carpenteri from Taos [»Speyeria cybele carpentieri] 524 in search of ferniensis [»Plebejus idas ferniensis] 524 three specimens of damoetas (a prize!) [»Charidryas damoetas] 524 3 Melitea [»Melitaea] 527 (L) The binding-design »swallowtail lacks antennae 527 (L) the Galatea Marbled White and the Machaon Swallowtail [»Melanargia galathea, »Papilio machaon] 528 (L) we had a delightful time with »Pieris virginiensis 528 (L) where we found a rather wonderful, apparently undescribed, green hairstreak close to M. siva [»Mitoura siva] 529 Nabokov's Wood Nymph [»Cyllopsis pertepida dorothea] 530 the entry on Lycaeides melissa samuelis [»Plebejus samuelis] 531 Such a beautiful fresh specimen! Militaea anicia [»Euphydryas anicia] 531 A dusky-wing Skipper. Common [»Erynnis] 531 He detected a »Hairstreak feeding on a flower 531 He noted a day-flying Peacock moth [»Automeris io] 532 A white Skipper mimicking a Cabbage butterfly [»Heliopetes laviana] 533 Here's a butterfly that's quite rare. You find it here and there in Arizona. Lemonias zeal [»Emesis zela] 533 What protective coloration. »Callophrys … A green Hairstreak not readily identified in the field 534 A Lygdamus female Blue [»Glaucopsyche lygdamus] 534 This one is an Angle Wing. It has a curiously formed letter C [»Polygonia silvius] 535 difference between a Monarch butterfly and a Viceroy [»Danaus plexippus, »Basilarchia archippus] 535 a pregnant White butterfly that came all the way from Ireland by ship [»Pieris rapae] 535 a Nitra Swallowtail [»Papilio zelicaon nitra] 536 I named it longinus [»Plebejus idas longinus] 537 Just an orange Sulphur [»Colias eurytheme] 538 (L) I would much prefer you to rename the genus »Pseudothecla Nabokov 538 The »Admirable Anglewing 540 the genitalia of »Sulphurs 540 An extraordinary – and irreplaceable – aberration of the Diana Fritillary [»Speyeria diana] 541 I question whether your butterfly is not a Basilarchia (wiedemeyerii or arthemis) [»Admirable Anglewing] 541 an aberration of Polygonia interrogationis [»Admirable Anglewing] 543 a series of the black-and-white Admirables [»Admirable Anglewing] 544 a mimic of Limenitis arthemis Drury, the White Admirable [»Admirable Anglewing] 544 the Question Mark Anglewing [»Admirable Anglewing] 544 Polygonia interrogationis F. [»Admirable Anglewing] 546 (L) two subspecies of an interesting Cercyonis (conspecific with behri, paula and masoni) [»Cercyonis sthenele sthenele, »Cercyonis sthenele paulus, »Cercyonis sthenele masoni] 546 (L) P. emigdionis [»Plebejus emigdionis] 566 (I) My mother taught me to spread my first »swallowtail, my first »Hawk Moth 569-612 Notes for the "Butterflies in Europe" project, see under »Butterflies of Europe (1963-1965) 618 a marvellous aberration of the Green Fritillary [»Speyeria edwardsii] 618 (L) spinetorum [»Mitoura spinetorum] 622 (L) the »Lycaeides genus 622 (L) a very local Erebia with a golden stripe on black on the underside of its hindwings [»Erebia flavofasciata] 622 (L) I am far from being a »Pyrgus specialis t 622 (L) inclined to think malvoides Elw. and Edw. conspecific with graeca Obthr., tutti Verity and malvae L. [»Pyrgus malvae malvoides] 623 (L) Melitaea … believe that parthenie Borkh. (= "aurelia") is conspecific with britomartis Assm., and… parthenoides ef (= "parthenie") is conspecific with varia H.-S. ..., just as helvetica Ruhl. (= pseudoathalia Rev.) belongs to athalia Rott. [»Mellicta parthenoides, »Mellicta aurelia, »Mellicta varia, »Mellicta britomartis, »Mellicta athalia, »Mellicta athalia var. helvetica] 623 (L) mnemosyne males [»Driopa mnemosyne] 623 (L) perfect intergrades between Euph. aurinia Rott. and glaciegenita Vrty (= "merope") [»Euphydryas aurinia, »Euphydryas aurinia debilis] 623 (L) Bol. aquilonaris Stichel (= "arsilache") [»Boloria aquilonaris] 623 (L) napaea Hoffmgg. [»Boloria napaea] 623 (L) pales Schiff. [»Boloria pales] 625 (I) the very common Meadow Brown [»Maniola jurtina] 640 An interesting pyri? quercus? [»Butterflies in Art] 649 (L) Moths … are as graceful and often as gaudy as true butterflies. In invitation to a beheading I have a saturnid moth which represents grace and beauty and art at their highest [»Saturnia pyri]. And there is another charming moth in bend sinister (cupped in a girl's hands) [»Smerinthus ocellatus] 681 (L) the occurrence of Lycaeides samuelis in Illinois … L. melissa melissa [»Plebejus melissa samuelis, »Plebejus melissa melissa] 696 (L) Dr. Nathaniel »Banks 697 (L) Dr. »Barbour 698 (L) his favorite locality for both M. deione berisali and I. iolas in the Valais is just SW of Saillon [»Mellicta deione berisalii, »Iolana iolas] 717 (L) William »Howe is an admirable illustrator 717 (L) the name argyrognomon should be replaced everywhere by idas [»Plebejus idas] 717 (L) The orgy of subspecific puzzles in the North American »Papilio and »Speyeria groups has no counterpart in the European fauna
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