[Odonata-l] Etymology of Libellula incesta...

[Ola Fincke]

Dennis -

Your notes are fascinating!
I think there's a PhD thesis here for a psych student!  I wonder if  
anyone has written a biography of Hagen.  Maybe that's what I can do  
in my dotage. What do you bet he was polygamous??
And now I understand why I've always liked E. ebrium.

Ola

Ola Fincke
Dept. of Zoology
University of Oklahoma
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On May 29, 2007, at 6:33 PM, Dennis Paulson wrote:

> Dear Michel,
>
> Hagen applied many strange and often undecipherable names to  
> odonate species. For example, Sympetrum corruptum (corrupted),  
> Sympetrum illotum (dirty), Dromogomphus spoliatus (plundered),  
> Brechmorhoga mendax (lying, deceiving), Enallagma praevarum  
> (unsteady), Enallagma ebrium (drunken).
>
> Sid Dunkle and I, in our checklist of North American odonates,  
> tried to figure out the origin of these names but failed in many  
> cases. For Libellula incesta, we wrote "incestuous, perhaps  
> alluding to looking like a hybrid between other closely related  
> species," but this was pure speculation. Hagen never explained the  
> etymology of any of his names, and they will remain unexplained.  
> Who, for example, were Irene, Elisa, and Amanda, all species names  
> coined by him?
>
> Dennis
>
> On May 29, 2007, at 2:15 PM, Pilon, Michel wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> My question concerns the etymology of the scientific name for the  
>> "Slaty skimmer" which is "Libellula incesta"...
>>
>> Do you have any idea why they chose the name "incesta" for this  
>> species???
>>
>> In french, this skimmer is called "Libellule voluptueuse" where  
>> "volupteuse" means "voluptuous" in english....
>>
>> Any comment about where those names may come from???
>>
>> Thank you very much in advance!
>>
>>
>>
>> Michel
>>
>> Michel Pilon
>> Québec, Canada
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>> http://parcours.pilonm.org
>>
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>>
>>
>>
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