EMILIO,
At 09:26 PM 8/12/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Polymita brocheri ("Gutierrez" Pfeiffer 1864) : this is as cited by C.
>de la Torre in his
>monograph.
>1) What do the "  " enclosing Gutierrez mean, that he, Gutierrez,
>described it in Pfeiffer's work,
>or that Pfeiffer referenced a description by Gutierrez (from a letter I
>think)?
>MOST PROBABLY THIS MEANS THE NAME IS A MANUSCRIPT NAME OF GUTIERREZ,
PERHAPS JUST COINED BY HIM BY SOME MEANS.

>2) Arango amended the name to brocheroi in 1878: this is as cited by
>Tucker Abbott,
>I assume C. de la Torre did not know this. Is this correct? The correct
>name is now
>brocheroi and should be cited as brocheroi?  (Note: The species was
>named for General Brochero)
OR HE JUST CHOSE TO IGNORE IT FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER WITHOUT
EXPLANATION. OR HE SIMPLY DID NOT KNOW IT. DE LA TORRE WAS APT TO DO EITHER
OF THESE THINGS.....HE PAINTED WITH A VERY BROAD BRUSH WHEN NOT CLOSELY
GUIDED BY PILSBRY, ET AL.

KURT
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