A century later, the mystery of Alfred Wallace’s butterfly was solved

From Alfred Russell Vallace Les, “Father of Zoosgraphy” in collaboration with Frederick Moore, the first article to study the island’s Lepidopterans in 1866: From “Alfred Russell Vallace Les, the father of zoography”

At that time, in his study, Moore dealt with the moth part and investigated the Wallace butterflies. Together they reported 139 species, including 93 nocturnal 46 daily species, respectively. Later, five species were described as new in science. However, the proper placement of four of these five butterflies in question has been verified several times since 1886, one of them: Licaina nisa, will never be re-examined until very recently.

In a modern research project on Taiwanese butterflies, scientists retrieved an original specimen from a collection of lace at the History Museum, London, London. After examining historical historical specimens kept at the Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, in addition to newly collected butterflies from Australia, Australia and Hong Kong, Dr. Yu Yu-feng Hu of the National Taiwan Normal University finally named the mysterious Alfred Wallace’s butterfly (now Fame). Going through, while the names of the other two species (Elsulus of Licaine And Zizaria elsulus agglotoni) After the original description by Valace Less it proved to be made for the same butterfly. From there, the latter two are synonymous with Fameg’s Nisa.

Although entomologists have been scratching their heads for over a century, in the wild, the lace butterfly is still good for standing. Unless anyone knows what else is left in the surrounding open grass pots, of course. Commonly known as ‘Grass Blue’, ‘Small Grass Blue’ or ‘Black Spotted Grass Blue’, the butterfly is easily recognizable among other endemic species by the uniform brownish white underside of its wings, obscure submerginal bands and a single on the hindwing. Leading black spot.

However, the species exhibits seasonal low seasonal variations, meaning that individuals grown in the dry season have a more distinctive submarine band than black spots, darker soil color on the sides of the wings, and wet seasonal specimens. That is why Dr. Yu-Feng Hsu notes that it is probably unnecessary to divide the species into sub-species, although four myths have been found so far.

Alfred Russell was a contemporary of Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, researcher, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator, and also worked on discussions of evolutionary theory, including natural selection. He also wrote the famous book Darwinism in 1889, explaining and defending natural selection.

When Darwin and Valce Lace exchanged ideas, challenging each other’s findings, they came up with the idea of ​​natural selection. For his part, Valace Les insisted that there is indeed a strong reason for certain species to evolve. Unlike Darwin, Wallace argued that rather than a random natural process, evolution was taking place to maintain the health of a species for the uniqueness of its environment. Valace was also one of the first leading scientists to raise concerns about the environmental impact of human activity.