Example sentences for: polyommatini

How can you use “polyommatini” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In recognition of this achievement, the lepidopterists have christened some recently discovered specimens of the Polyommatini with Nabokovian names, such as Madeleinea lolita .

  • 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.


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