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.
In order to
make the text more accessible and easy to read I do not
incorporate citations to the invaluable works of others, but
wish to express my sincerest gratitude to the following people,
and recommend their works to anyone wishing to explore the
subject more deeply:
Andre Frietas,
Andrew Neild, Arjan Basu Roy, Bernard d'Abrera, Bernard Herm�er,
Bernaud Dominique, Blanca Huertas, Carlos Prieto, Curtis
Callaghan, Delano Lewis, Jason Hall, Jean-Marc Gayman, Jeremy
Thomas, Jorge Bizzaro, Gerardo Lamas, Hugh Rowell, Keith
Willmott, Kevin Tuck, Kim Garwood,
Krushnamegh Kunte,
Martin Honey, Martin Warren, Maurizio Bollino, Michael Parsons,
Olaf Mielke, Pat Haynes, Phil DeVries, Robert Robbins, Ronald
Brabant, St�phane Attal, Szabolcs Safian, Tomasz Pyrcz, Torben
Larsen, and Zsolt Balint.
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. |