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ON THE NAMING OF “TRANSITION FORMS” IN LFPIDOPTERA WITH NOTES ON CERTAIN FORMS CAPTURED NEAR LAWRENCE, KANSAS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

William D. Field
William D. Field
Affiliation:
Lawrence, Kansas
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During the past several years there has been much discussion among Lepidopterists on the question of the advisability of employing a system of scientific classification for forms within a species. While other zoologists have looked scoffingly on, Lepidopterists have been giving names to races, local forms, general forms, sexual forms and aberrations for many years.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 66 , Issue 11 , November 1934 , pp. 253 - 257
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1934

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References

1 For his lates presentation of this classification see Ent. News, Vol. XLIII, p. 169, 1932.

2 Ent. News, Vol. XXXIX, p. 201, 1928.

3 Ent. News, Vol. XLIII, plate VII, opposite p. 169, 1932.

4 Ibid.

5 Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., Vol. XXV, p. 9, 1930.

6 Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., Vol. XXV, p. 9, 1930.

7 Ibid.

8 Ibid.

9 Ent. News, Vol. XLII, p. 80, 1931.

10 Ent. News, Vol. XLI, p. 298,1930.

11 We know something about variation in color and pattern of one species, Junonia coenia Hbn., because very many painstaking breeding experiments and environments have been performed upon this species by Mr. Schrader (see Bull. Southern Calif. Acad. Sci. and Pomona Journal of Zool. and Ent.). He obained many striking examples by breeding and raising them in varioous artificial environments and by selective breeding.

12 Wm. T. M. Forbes (Ent. News, Vol. XLIV, Nov. 1933, p. 242) believes that 100% of the albifusism, chromatifusism and melanifusism genetically studied is due to external disturbance, so far as he knows, by temperature abnormalties! He also believes that 100% of the categories “change of color” so far studied are mendelian!

13 Ent. News, Vol. XLI, p. 299, 1930.

14 Ibid, Vol. XL, p. 143, 1929.

15 Ibid, Vol. XLIII, p. 239, 1932.

16 Ent. News, Vol. XLII, p. 215, 1931.