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Acknowledgements
The data presented
on this website is based on over 50 years of extensive personal
observation by Adrian Hoskins F.R.E.S. It is supplemented by
data collated from numerous books, academic papers, and personal
communications with eminent biologists including Andrew Neild,
Arjan Basu Roy, Bernard d'Abrera, Bernard Hermíer, Bernaud
Dominique, Blanca Huertas, Bob Robbins, Curtis Callaghan, Delano
Lewis, Jason Hall, Jean-Marc Gayman, Jeremy Thomas, Jorge
Bizzaro, Gerardo Lamas, Hugh Rowell, Keith Willmott, Kevin Tuck,
Martin Honey, Martin Warren, Maurizio Bollino, Michael Parsons,
Pat Haynes, Phil DeVries, Ronald Brabant, Stéphane Attal,
Szabolcs Safian, Tomasz Pyrcz, Torben Larsen, and Zsolt Balint
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. |
