[Taxacom] currently available names?

[Laurent Raty]

Hi Donat,

This is certainly not a list quoted directly from Linnaeus 1758, as the 
family-group names it includes were definitely unheard of before ca. 1820.

I'm not fully clear what you're after, but here is a quick-and-dirty 
translation of the first half:

Hostes imprimis sunt = "The enemies mainly are"
Motacillae = plural of Motacilla: "wagtails" (but early workers used Motacilla as a genus name for a broad range of small birds with thin bill)
Motacillidae = the family of wagtails (wagtails and pipits)
Hirundines = plural of Hirundo: "swallows" (but early workers used Hirundo as a genus name that also encompassed, i.a., swifts)
Hirundinidae = thefamily of Ssallows (swallows and martins)
Pavones = plural of Pavo: "peafowls"
Bufones = plural of Bufo: "toads"
Bufonidae = the family of toads
Mures = plural of Mus: "mice"
Muridae = the family of mice
Crabrones = plural of Crabro: "hornets"
Vespae = plural of Vespa: "wasps"
Vesidae = ? presumably a typo for Vespidae, family of wasps
Pediculi = plural of Pediculus: "lice"
Pediculidae = the family of lice
Apes fures = plural of Apis furis: "thief bees"; a generic term for parasitic bees, aka "cuckoo bees"
Mellonellae = plural of Mellonella, probably meaning "wax moths", Phalaena mellonella Linnaeus 1758
Fumus = this is the Latin word for "smoke" (I'm unclear whether it can mean something else)
etc. = etc.

I'll leave the "flores melliferi" to a botanist, if there is one out there.

Cheers, L -


On 6/8/20 6:17 PM, Donat Agosti via Taxacom wrote:
> Who can help to find out the names of predators and flowers of the honey bee listed in Linnaeus 1758
>
> Hostes imprimis sunt
> Motacillae
> Motacillidae
> Hirundines
> Hirundinidae
> Pavones
> Bufones
> Bufonidae
> Mures
> Muridae
> Crabrones
> Vespae
> Vesidae
> Pediculi
> Pediculidae
> Apes fures
> Mellonellae
> Fumus
> etc.
> Flores melliferi, non omnes, praecipui sund
> Echinum
> Echium
> Borago
> Borago
> Verbascum
> Verbascum
> Serpyllum alii, imiprims
> Erica Svecis
> Erica
> Fagopyrum Scanis
> Fagopyrum
> Tilia polonis
> Tilia
> Rosmarinus Narbonensibus
> Rosmarinus
> Thymus Atticis
> Thymus
> Arbutus Corsicis
> Arbutus
> Absyinthium Sardinis
> Absyinthium
> Aconitum ponticis
> Aconitum
>
> Thanks for any hint
> Donat
>
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