SPECIES INDEX

 

 

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Hamadryas chloe, Peru
 

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Acknowledgements

The data presented on this website is based on over 50 years of extensive personal observation of butterflies by Adrian Hoskins, supplemented by data collated from numerous books, scientific journals & academic papers; and personal communication with biologists including Andrew Neild, Bernard d'Abrera, Robert Robbins, Curtis Callaghan, Keith Willmott, Blanca Huertas, Kevin Tuck, Jean-Marc Gayman, Torben Larsen, Ronald Brabant, Jorge Bizzaro, Martin Warren, Delano Lewis, Jason Hall, Bernard Hermíer, Gerardo Lamas, Maurizio Bollino, Michael Parsons, Matthew Oates, Phil DeVries, Jeremy Thomas, Pat Haynes, Szabolcs Safian, Martin Honey and Stéphane Attal to whom I express my sincere gratitude.

I would also like to thank Bernard & Lucilla d'Abrera for their very generous donation of 11 vols of Butterflies of the World, an indispensable series of books illustrating specimens of most of the currently known species of butterfly. My thanks go also to Colin Baker for his generous donation of software, and to Tony Hoare who kindly donated Willmott's book The Genus Adelpha.

Finally a big thank you to my friends Tony Hoare, Doris Ashby, Peter Bruce-Jones, Colin Baker,  Steve Meredith; and to my partner Emily Halsey - see her website www.neotropicalmoths.com.

 

 

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