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

[Mark O'Brien]

One old reference I found said that incesta meant ³defiled²  -- so that fits
a pattern in Hagen¹s names.  Is it any wonder that Selys  described Hagen¹s
³short style² for Hagenius brevistylus? :D

Mark


On 5/30/07 10:23 AM, "Ola Fincke" <fincke at ou.edu> wrote:

> 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
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> Ola Fincke
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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 
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