[Taxacom] Chinese collecting locality name question

[David Boufford]

John,

The Chinese characters 平伐村 appear to work better when searching in both
Google Maps and Google Earth.  Just cut and paste.

Dave

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 10:33 AM, David Boufford <david_boufford at harvard.edu>
wrote:

> The place is now Pingfa-Cun (or Pingfacun), near Guiding, Qiannan,
> Guizhou, China.
> 26.212540, 107.081951
>
> It doesn't also show up when searching on Google Maps.
>
> Dave
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 10:17 AM, John Grehan <calabar.john at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Colleagues,
>>
>> I would be most grateful if anyone could clarify a Chinese locality for
>> me.
>> I have reference to a moth collected in the early 1900's from "Pin-Fa". I
>> have been unable to identify the map locality for this name although I
>> have
>> seen the same name as a collecting locality for other taxa in the early
>> 1900's. I did come across "Pingfa" in Guizhou Province, although I do not
>> know if that is the same locality. When I tried Pingfa in Google Earth it
>> gave me Pingba, Guizhou. Any insight or clarification would be most
>> helpful.
>>
>> John Grehan
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