Ackery, Phil (Author)
Goodger, Kim (Author)
Lees, David (Author)
The history of a natural history type specimen has many components -- as a chronicled object passing from hand to hand, the various treatments of the taxon it represents, an association with personalities and a natural history at the level of the extant population that it represents. This article reviews all such aspects for one butterfly specimen, the type of a species of `White' (family Pieridae) Pseudopontia paradoxa.
...MoreDescription Explores the components of a type specimen, in this case a butterfly: as a chronicled object, as an object related to its taxon, and as an object associated with people.
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