[Taxacom] species name etymology

[John Grehan]

Thanks. That had crossed my mind, but there is nothing distinctive about
the tegulae of this species and any other. The species was named in the
1800's and not dissected so I am assuming, unless hearing otherwise, that
the name is descriptive in some way. If knew what the word derivation was I
might be able to figure it out. I probably need a good Latin or Greek
dictionary.

On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 10:44 PM, Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz
> wrote:

> It presumably refers to the tegulae
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Mon, 26/2/18, John Grehan <calabar.john at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Subject: [Taxacom] species name etymology
>  To: "taxacom" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
>  Received: Monday, 26 February, 2018, 4:28 PM
>
>  Dear colleagues,
>
>  This is a question for any with
>  specialist knowledge of species name
>  etymology.  I am curious about the
>  possible derivation of the name of a
>  moth called Aenetus tegulatus. The
>  original author says nothing about the
>  choice and I wondered if the term had
>  any particular meaning in terms of
>  Latin or Greek roots. I know absolutely
>  nothing about such matters but hope
>  that there are some on this list who
>  do. I looked up tegulatus on the web
>  and came up with a spider and a
>  mollusc, but in neither case any reference
>  to the name choice.
>
>  Many thanks,
>
>  John Grehan
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