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Query: Emperor moth (fwd)
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From: David Maslowski <david@public.hh.nm.cn>
------------------- In "Speak, Memory" (Chapter 6, the last paragraph of
the first subchapter) the Emperor moth is mentioned. I wonder, does this
bug match the on in the Russian version (Drugie berega) named as
glazchatyi shelkopriad?
Thanks
Vladimir Mylnikov
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EDITOR's RESPONSE.
Dieter Zimmer's _A Guide to Nabokov's Butterflies and Moths_ (Hamburg,
1996) identifies it as Saturnia pavonia Linnaeus. "A large saturniid moth
with a wingspan of 40-70 mm and a plump body. The basic color of the
female is grey, while the hind wings of the samller males are of an orange
brown. As with all saturnids, there is a striking dark eye-spot on each
wing. Its range is all of Europe and Asia." ALthough Zimmer provides the
E, F,It., & Sp names (le petit paon de nuit, Kleines Nachtpfauenauge,
saturnia or pavonia minore, & pequeno pavon nocturno), he does not provide
the Russian name. A colored illustration is among those at the end of the
volume.
I have nothing at hand that gives Russian names for the
"glazchatyi shelkopryad" (literally the "eyed silk spinner", note that
Saturnids include many silk spinners. It seems likely that VN's "Emperor"
moth and the "glazchatyi shelkpryad" are identical There is a marvellous
Hungarian five-language dictionary of species names that would nail down
the answer.
------------------- In "Speak, Memory" (Chapter 6, the last paragraph of
the first subchapter) the Emperor moth is mentioned. I wonder, does this
bug match the on in the Russian version (Drugie berega) named as
glazchatyi shelkopriad?
Thanks
Vladimir Mylnikov
----------------------------------------------------------
EDITOR's RESPONSE.
Dieter Zimmer's _A Guide to Nabokov's Butterflies and Moths_ (Hamburg,
1996) identifies it as Saturnia pavonia Linnaeus. "A large saturniid moth
with a wingspan of 40-70 mm and a plump body. The basic color of the
female is grey, while the hind wings of the samller males are of an orange
brown. As with all saturnids, there is a striking dark eye-spot on each
wing. Its range is all of Europe and Asia." ALthough Zimmer provides the
E, F,It., & Sp names (le petit paon de nuit, Kleines Nachtpfauenauge,
saturnia or pavonia minore, & pequeno pavon nocturno), he does not provide
the Russian name. A colored illustration is among those at the end of the
volume.
I have nothing at hand that gives Russian names for the
"glazchatyi shelkopryad" (literally the "eyed silk spinner", note that
Saturnids include many silk spinners. It seems likely that VN's "Emperor"
moth and the "glazchatyi shelkpryad" are identical There is a marvellous
Hungarian five-language dictionary of species names that would nail down
the answer.