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Post by foxxdoc on Oct 7, 2015 18:25:30 GMT
in the 60's . based out of merida mexico in the Yucatan. provided prepared and live specimens; often custom collected. while I received many specimens I never knew any personal information about him.
did anyone know of him ??
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Post by wollastoni on Oct 8, 2015 8:24:22 GMT
Never heard about him.
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Post by deliasfanatic on Oct 8, 2015 13:16:34 GMT
He was a well known supplier for a long time. I have a lot of his specimens from the '50s and '60s, which I got from old collections; typically they come in glassine rectangles with distinctive rubber-stamped or handwritten data. Merida, Yucatan is a location from which he had a lot of material.
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Post by louisianacurmudgeon on Nov 19, 2015 16:02:39 GMT
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Post by foxxdoc on Nov 1, 2016 18:27:16 GMT
re: welling
I didn't realize that you had replied 1 year ago---- sorry.
you are Vernon ?
did you know anything about welling ?
I also had contacts with him via mail in the early 70's
Tom
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Post by jshuey on Nov 1, 2016 19:47:51 GMT
Edward Welling lived in Cleveland Ohio. He apparently didn't collect much then - as we did not find any (at least that I remember) specimens from him when we wrote the butterflies and skippers of Ohio. We mention him in the book in passing.
At some point, he moved to Merida, Yucatan - and Edward became Eduardo.
He was a prolific commercial collector in the 60's and 70's - collecting everything he encountered (often under contract with individuals and collections - especially the Allyn Museum and Carnegie Museum - both have thousands of his specimens). He collected the heck out of Chiapas, the Yucatan Peninsula and parts of Guatemala. Because he was collecting bulk lots and was not hung up on the "big pretties", he picked up a bunch of undesrcibed species - skippers, satyrs and hairstreaks mostly. He made one pass though Belize - and managed to pick up the only "known endemic" butterfly in the country - Cyllopsis wellingi. Ten years after its description, I hit exactly the same spot on my first trip to Belize, and picked up a short series of the bug (and thought it was new until I finally tracked down the description). Throughout Central America, there are loads of species where he collected the type series.
Olaf Mielke (in Brasil) also purchased lots of skippers from him. When I was looking at the collection down there I noticed a packed unit tray full of Epargyreus brodkorbi - endemic to two volcanoes in Chiapas and adjacent Guatemala. When I was in grad school, I could find just three specimens of this bug in the US. I looked because when I first collected it, I was convinced it was a new species - but Avery Freeman had described it a few years earlier from a single specimen. Other than the type specimen - the two bugs in my collection are the only ones I've ever seen up here. But I bet thanks to Welling - there are others out there in private holdings.
By the time I started collecting, he was done. We corresponded a bit - but that was all. But a few years back John Hyatt sent me a few Welling bugs from Guatemala as part of a trade. They included a pair of Euphyes chamuli that were collected before the bug had an official name. Priceless.
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Post by wollastoni on Nov 1, 2016 20:25:14 GMT
Thanks a lot John for this precise information.
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Post by jshuey on Nov 1, 2016 21:08:58 GMT
Here is very brief obituary from the Lep Soc News. I think the photo is of Eduardo - but it could be of "john Mervyn Plumley" - who I never heard of...
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Post by foxxdoc on Nov 2, 2016 17:15:11 GMT
thanks for background.
I lived in Cleveland in late 69 and into early 70's. I was a temp volunteer at Cleveland museum. I received access to collection to compare a specimen of styrom mellisa samuelis I collected in lucas co. and I think data from that bug made it into your book. I had correspondence w someone working on the book.
by the way----- I spent some time in belize and guatamala our guide was the zoo curator Sharon mattola. is she still there ?
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Post by indra on Nov 2, 2016 18:37:33 GMT
I also have many specimens collected by Eduardo. I did correspond with him directly a few times back in 1985-1987, but some of his specimens were also included in the annual catalogs of Combined Scientific Supplies (Fort Davis, Texas) owned by Terry Taylor back then. I also have a nice specimen of Memphis wellingi named after him.
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Post by jshuey on Nov 2, 2016 21:37:31 GMT
thanks for background. I lived in Cleveland in late 69 and into early 70's. I was a temp volunteer at Cleveland museum. I received access to collection to compare a specimen of styrom mellisa samuelis I collected in lucas co. and I think data from that bug made it into your book. I had correspondence w someone working on the book. by the way----- I spent some time in belize and guatamala our guide was the zoo curator Sharon mattola. is she still there ? tom
Sharon is indeed still running the zoo in Belize. She led a group of us to Doyle's Delight several years back. Without her efforts to organize trips up there, the biology would be completely unknown.
john
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