Mynes woodfordi explained

Mynes woodfordi is a medium-sized butterfly of the family Nymphalidae found in and around the Solomon Islands and Bougainville.^[1] It was described by Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin in 1888 and named after British naturalist Charles Morris Woodford, later Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands.^{[2] [3]} The subspecies M. w. shannoni is named after Ray Shannon, who collected the type specimen in Malaita on the Solomons during his military service in 1944.^[4]

Subspecies

• Mynes woodfordi woodfordi Godman & Salvin – Bougainville, Shortland, Treasury Is.
• M. w. isabella Fruhstorfer – Santa Isabel
• M. w. hercyna Godman & Salvin– Guadalcanal
• M. w. shannoni Tennent – Malaita

Notes and References

1. Book: D'Abrera, Bernard. Butterflies of the Australian Region. Lansdowne. 1977. 0701810033. 2. Melbourne. 214.
2. Godman. F.D.. Salvin. O.. 1888. New species of Butterflies collected by Mr. C. M. Woodford in the Solomon Islands. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 6. 1. 90–101.
3. Beccaloni G., Scoble M., Kitching I., Simonsen T., Robinson G., Pitkin B., Hine A. & Lyal C. (2018). LepIndex: The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (version 12.3, Jan 2012). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2018 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2018. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.
4. Tennent. W. John. 2001. Twenty new butterflies from the Solomon Islands (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae; Lycaenidae; Nymphalinae; Satyrinae; Danainae). British Journal of Entomology and Natural History. 14. 1–27.