Post by nomad on Jan 28, 2014 10:07:52 GMT -8
Specimens with good data can tell us much, not just about the locality, but the name of the collector, which then will tell us much more. Take this nice male of Delias subnubila [ Leech 1893] to be found in the collections at the Oxford Natural History Museum. The data is SW China, North Yunnan, about 26.5 degrees north- 181 degrees east. Tse-Kou on the River Yang-tse Kiang. Th. Monbeig 1909 - Charles Oberthur presented 1913.
So this specimen with some quick research was collected by the French Catholic missionary Jean Theodore Monbeig [ 1875-1914] and is from the collection of the French entomologist Charles Oberthur and was presented by him to the Hope Department in 1914. Monbeig spent his free time mainly collecting plants for the Paris museum, but he also collected butterflies for Oberthur. This was a very dangerous time to be collecting butterflies or plants in Tibet-China. In 1905 Monbeig's mission at Tse-Kou in Yunnan where this specimen was collected was attacked in the Lama revolt, he alone out of the fathers stationed there survived. Moving later to Cizhong, he was murdered in 1914 trying to get to the remote Litang mission in eastern Tibet.
Peter.
Delias subnubila collected by Father Monbeig.
So this specimen with some quick research was collected by the French Catholic missionary Jean Theodore Monbeig [ 1875-1914] and is from the collection of the French entomologist Charles Oberthur and was presented by him to the Hope Department in 1914. Monbeig spent his free time mainly collecting plants for the Paris museum, but he also collected butterflies for Oberthur. This was a very dangerous time to be collecting butterflies or plants in Tibet-China. In 1905 Monbeig's mission at Tse-Kou in Yunnan where this specimen was collected was attacked in the Lama revolt, he alone out of the fathers stationed there survived. Moving later to Cizhong, he was murdered in 1914 trying to get to the remote Litang mission in eastern Tibet.
Peter.
Delias subnubila collected by Father Monbeig.
