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Dec 12
breathingvioletfog: mignonette: thousandflowerettes: liquidnight:Vladimir Nabokov’s first important American catch, taken on June 9, 1941, from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. He named it Neo-nympha dorothea for Dorothea Leuthold, a friend who drove the Nabokovs west on the trip and “kicked up” the first specimen, enabling the butterfly’s discovery. [from Nabokov’s Butterflies]

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liquidnight:Vladimir Nabokov’s first important American catch, taken on June 9, 1941, from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. He named it Neo-nympha dorothea for Dorothea Leuthold, a friend who drove the Nabokovs west on the trip and “kicked up” the first specimen, enabling the butterfly’s discovery. [from Nabokov’s Butterflies]
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