Erebia christi Europe's rarest butterfly species.
Nov 10, 2016 13:17:03 GMT
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Post by nomad on Nov 10, 2016 13:17:03 GMT
In the Hope Department at Oxford I have found that there is a twenty drawer cabinet that is full of European Erebia, part of a collection made by the Reverend Frank Edward Lowe (1853-1918). The rector lived on Guernsey in the Channel Islands. He first went to Switzerland after his boyhood interest in butterfly collecting was rekindled in 1897 during a cliff top walk with his wife when he found Melitaea cinxia. Each year until the First World War the Reverend took his annual holidays in some European Region or other to collect butterflies. He wrote a number of articles for the Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation of his European travels. His large European collection was inherited by his friend Henry Rowland-Brown, who often accompanied him on his butterfly collecting holidays. Henry Rowland-Brown in turn left his collection and that of F.E. Lowe to the Oxford Museum.
Among Lowe's Satyrids in one drawer there is small series of Erebia christi that was collected in the Laquinthal (Laggintal) on three visits, 1906, 1907 and 1911 and being very good specimens including undersides I thought that they were worth showing here.
Specimens of both sexes of Erebia christi captured by F.E. Lowe in the Laquinthal.
Erebia drawer of F.E. Lowe with a series of nine specimens of E. christi (centre of drawer).
Protection.
Protected from the European Union: Fauna and Flora Habitats Directive of the EU (FFH), Annex II (Species for whose conservation special protection areas must be indicated).
European protection strictly protected: Fauna and Flora Habitats Directive of the EU (FFH), Annex IV (strictly protected species of Community interest) .
Protected and Swiss Ordinance on Protection of Nature and Homeland Protection Art. 20 para. 2, Annex 3 .
References.
Rowland- Brown. H. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Rowland-Brown
Rowland- Brown. H. (1918) The Entomologist. Obituary of Reverend Frank Edward Lowe. pp 96-97.
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/42362#page/123/mode/1up
Among Lowe's Satyrids in one drawer there is small series of Erebia christi that was collected in the Laquinthal (Laggintal) on three visits, 1906, 1907 and 1911 and being very good specimens including undersides I thought that they were worth showing here.
Specimens of both sexes of Erebia christi captured by F.E. Lowe in the Laquinthal.
Erebia drawer of F.E. Lowe with a series of nine specimens of E. christi (centre of drawer).
Protection.
Protected from the European Union: Fauna and Flora Habitats Directive of the EU (FFH), Annex II (Species for whose conservation special protection areas must be indicated).
European protection strictly protected: Fauna and Flora Habitats Directive of the EU (FFH), Annex IV (strictly protected species of Community interest) .
Protected and Swiss Ordinance on Protection of Nature and Homeland Protection Art. 20 para. 2, Annex 3 .
References.
Rowland- Brown. H. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Rowland-Brown
Rowland- Brown. H. (1918) The Entomologist. Obituary of Reverend Frank Edward Lowe. pp 96-97.
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/42362#page/123/mode/1up
