Historical vs Recent Moth Illustrations

Joseph G. Kunkel, Professor, Biology Department
and
Theodore D. Sargent, Professor, Biology Department;
with the cooperation of:
Ute Bargmann, Library Assistant, Special Collections;
Larry Feldman, Librarian, Biological Sciences Library
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Sponsored by the Five College Multimedia Project
A CD with higher resolution images is available
from joe@bio.umass.edu

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| Bibliography | Programmed examples | Historic Keys | Lists |
| Approach | Framed Catocala | Other Moths | Whole Plates | Figure menu |
| Harold Vermes Slides of Catocala | Behavioral Ecology | Other WWW sites |

APPROACH and PURPOSE: Our intention is to highlight the work of some 18^th, 19^th and early 20^th century biologists who produced descriptions and illustrations of moths of the genus Catocala that depict, in some instances, for the first time, species for which we have modern photographic images. We hope to provide a complete database of the historic illustrations and text on this speciose group and thus provide useful examples of the problems that are involved in the accurate identification, description and naming of the species in our natural world using modern methodology to access the historic information.

Programmed Examples:

Example 3: Catocala aholibah in frames