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Vladimir Nabokov's taxonomies of Latin American butterflies, long disparaged as armchair entomology, turn out to be top-drawer science, according to a recent article in the New York Times . In the 1940s, the émigré novelist held a part-time job at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology and published the first attempted classification of an obscure group of blue butterflies known as Polyommatini . For years, Nabokov's study attracted more attention from literary critics than from scientists.
In recognition of this achievement, the lepidopterists have christened some recently discovered specimens of the Polyommatini with Nabokovian names, such as Madeleinea lolita .