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What's new in this website?
Latest updates since July 2009
The list below presents only major additions and modifications. Minor modifications and additions are being made continuously in checklists and other pages and are not mentioned here. Please check the website pages now and then for updates. You can find the data of the last update on the bottom of most pages.
- SUGAPA, a new journal on the insects of Papua Indonesia!
- Suara Serangga Papua: Abstracts of SUGAPA 4(3)
- Insect pages:
- Neuroptera: Ascalaphidae, Chrysopidae, Coniopterygidae, Hemerobiidae, Mantispidae, Myrmeleontidae, Nymphidae, Osmylidae (Willem Hogenes) Checklists of the species per family [April 2010]
- Diptera: Syrphidae (Joaquin (Ximo) Mengual & F. Christian Thompson) A checklist of the species [February 2010]
- Lepidoptera: Tortricidae (Frans Groenen & Piet Zumkehr) Now with many linked pictures [August 2009]
- Lepidoptera: Alucitidae (Cees Gielis) New!! Complete with species pages [July 2009]
- Lepidoptera: Sphingidae (Willem Hogenes) Now completed, all with species pages [December 2009]
- Lepidoptera: Hepialidae (Rob de Vos) A checklist and species pages with genitalia overview [April 2010]
History: the following pages are added:
- An interesting part of the biography of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811)
- Information on the Central New Guinea Expedition (1920-1921)
- A map of the route of the Adolf Bernhard Meyer Expedition (1873). Soon informative text will be added too.
Thumbnail galleries
When a reasonable number of pictures is available thumbnail galleries are attached to the checklists. These galleries can easily be reached by just clicking the blue thumbnail gallery icon on the checklists. In case that species pages are available the clicked picture will send you to these page, in other cases you will just enlarge the picture. Please note that the thumbnail galleries could be far from complete. Good pictures of tropical species are rare, if available at all.
New butterfly from Papua on Indonesian stamps
The Papuan butterfly Delias kristianiae (Pieridae), described newly to science by Henk van Mastrigt in 2006 from the Foja Expedition material, is depicted on two Indonesian stamps in a series of four different butterflies on stamps, later the 2500 Rp stamp was overprinted with "5000" in gold. The species is named after the First Lady of Indonesia to honour her husband, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who's political views look promissing in favour of nature conservation. This is how taxonomy, philately and politics come together! Let's hope that the President and his Governors in Papua and other regions take their promiss serious and put an end to the rapid demolishing of the nature in Indonesia.
Pos Indonesia issued in 2009 celebration stamps on which the public can display their own pictures or advertisements. Henk van Mastrigt took the initiative to promote the SUGAPA magazine by stamps!
[updated on 5th April 2010]
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