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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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Butterflies Entomology 20th century, early Papua New Guinea

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
Lambkin, Kevin J.
Linge, Ina
Simpson, Emily
Vane-Wright, Richard I.
Winter, Christine
Stead, Victoria
Journals
Archives of Natural History
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Health and History
Noesis: Travaux du Comité Roumain d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences
Lychnos
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
NewSouth Books
Louisiana State University Press
Concepts
Entomology
Natural history
Butterflies
Agriculture
Colonialism
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
People
Tillyard, Robin John
Goldschmidt, Richard Benedict
Shapley, Harlow
Petiver, James
Martínez de la Escalera y Pérez de Rozas, Manuel
Kishida, Kyükichi
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
18th century
Places
Papua New Guinea
Queensland (Australia)
Great Britain
Pasadena (California)
Sydney (Australia)
São Paulo (Brazil)
Institutions
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Spain)
Mount Wilson Observatory
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