Article ID: CBB490717530

A Brief Historical Account of an Endemic Swallowtail Butterfly First Collected a Century Ago on Goodenough Island (D'Entrecasteaux Group) in Papua New Guinea (2017)

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Graphium weiskei goodenovii Rothschild, 1915 (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) has been known for over a century only from two male specimens: one in the Natural History Museum, London; the other in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH). Endemic to Goodenough Island, in the D'Entrecasteaux group, Papua New Guinea, it was first collected on the summit of ‘Oiamadawa'a (Mount Madawaa, Mount Madara'a) in 1912 by New Zealand anthropologist Diamond Jenness. The second specimen, which became the holotype, was collected in mountains in the south of the island by Albert Stewart Meek, one of Walter, Lord Rothschild's most prolific collector/explorers for his museum at Tring in Hertfordshire. In each case, capture of specimens was sufficiently notable to be recorded contemporaneously by the captors. These data, and maps and photographs made by the collectors suggest that the butterfly was widespread at moderate to high elevations on Goodenough Island. The authors climbed ‘Oiamadawa'a in 2015 and collecte...

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Authors & Contributors
Vane-Wright, Richard I.
Casado, Santos
Davis, Frederick Rowe
Griggs, Peter
Lambkin, Kevin J.
Marinescu, Alexandru
Journals
Health and History
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Archives of Natural History
British Journal for the History of Science
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Historical Records of Australian Science
Publishers
Princeton University
Florida State University
NewSouth Books
University of California Press
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Butterflies
Entomology
Natural history
Collectors and collecting
Colonialism
World War II
People
Caradja, Aristed
Fountaine, Margaret
Kelsall, Conrad
Petiver, James
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Weismann, August
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, late
Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910)
Places
Germany
Papua New Guinea
England
Great Britain
Australia
Europe
Institutions
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
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