help with definitions

[Yuri P. Nekrutenko]

     Colin Plant on March 22 wrote:

>   Can anyone tell me the CORRECT usage of the inscription "Leg." as written on
>   insect specimen data labels.  I'd also  like to know how it has, in your
>   experience, been incorrectly applied, if you have such experience.
>
     Independent of somebody's experience, inscription "Leg.[it]", followed
    or  preceeded  by a name,  means  "[he have]  collected":  lego,  legi,
    lectum, legera.  Of course, if used  on  an animal specimen data label.
    Otherwise, different meanings are also available dependent  on  context
    and on a document specificity.

     Best regards. - Yuri.

     Yuri P. Nekrutenko
     Institute of Zoology
     UA-252601 Kiev 30, MSP
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