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Shinichi Nakahara

butterfly holotype

Life on Earth

New South American butterfly species named for Florida Museum’s Andy Warren

September 13, 2019

Researchers have discovered a common butterfly genus from South America previously believed to contain just three species actually has 12….Read More

black butterfly

Life on Earth

New butterfly named for pioneering 17th-century entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian

December 5, 2018

More than three centuries before initiatives to increase the number of women in STEM fields, 52-year-old Maria Sibylla Merian sailed…Read More

Male and female specimens of Caeruleuptychia helios

Life on Earth

A case of mistaken identity: DNA links male, female butterfly thought to be distinct species

July 27, 2017

Researchers recently discovered what was thought to be a distinct species of butterfly is actually the female of a species…Read More

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