"Chapman's
blue."... Polyommatus (or
| Agrodiaetus) thersites (Cantener,
1834) [Morocco, S Europe, Middle East, C Asia] --
named after Homer's character...T. Chapman described
the same species as Argus gravesi Chapman, 1913
and as Agriades thersites centro Chapman, 1913;
NOTE: thersites is named after
Homer's character...:)
Victor Fet
Department of Biological
Sciences
Marshall
University
Huntington, WV 25755-2510 USA
ph. (304) 696-3116, fax (304) 696-3243
http://www.science.marshall.edu/fet/euscorpius/Fet.htm
Escher and (Homer's?) Chapman ( in "Father's
Butterflies", from "Nabokov's Butterflies", Allen Lane, The Penguin
Press,2000):
208: .".. and, secondly, made an attempt ( as
did Chapman and...) to define the initial stages of the now 'isolated' species
in order to compare them to the same stages of the species that formerly
'contained' it"..." And in fact my father's discovery of the Terzit
caterpillar made it possible to adopt an entirely new, quite unexpected
approach in juxtaposing "Terzit" with "Icarus" [ the Common Blue] and Escher's
Blue.
Would "Escher's Blue" be applicable to
a special butterfly or did VN make a reference to the Dutch engraver
Escher? Is there a famous entomologist named Chapman? ( There is another
real "Escher")
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