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Catalogue of the Specific and Hybrid specimens of Papilionoidea butterflies donated by Dr. Shigeru Albert Ae to the Toyohashi Museum of Natural History

Shigeru Albert Ae and Michiaki Hasegawa

Miscellaneous report of the Toyohasi Museum of Natural History, No. 14, March, 2003. pp. 298, 16 plates. ISSN0919-1526. Kyowa Insatsu Pub. Co., Toyohashi, Japan.
Shigeru Albert Ae studied the ecology, genetics and evolution of Papilionoidea butterflies mainly by rearing and hybridization at Nanzan University for 50 years, and most of the obtained specimens are now in the Toyohashi Museum of Natural History. There are some other specimens donated to the Natural History Museum, London, Peabody Museum of Yale University, etc. Ae's donated specimens include those which were obtained while he was a student at Kyoto University under the direction of the late Dr. Taku Komai and late Dr. Kenji Nakamura and at University of Notre Dame under the direction of late Dr. Edward O. Dadson and at Yale University under the direction of Dr. Charles L. Remington. His researches are continued at Nanzan University by the help of Dr. Takashi Shirozu and many others.

This catalogue is the list of set specimens with rearing records and reference to hybrid characters. Many specimens which have not been set are kept in the Museum as papered specimens for further study. Permissions to import breeding materials of foreign butterflies were given to Nanzan University by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan.

Ae started researches on Colias at Kyoto University in 1950, and on Papilio, at Yale University in 1956. Researches in other genera were later started at Nanzan University. These days classificatory studies of these genera are progressing rapidly, and for convenience' sake, the scientific names and the subdivision of the Papilionidae have not been updated.

Here, we present this report with sincere gratitudes to directors and assistants, whose names are too numerous to list here. The names of material suppliers are mentioned in this report, as far as Ae could find them in the original research notes.

We thank Mr. Tadahiro Takamura for reading the draft in English. Ae also expresses his gratitude to his wife Hisa Agnes Ae for her help in his timeless butterfly rearing.

Ae SA: Professor emeritus, Nanzan University, 18 Yamazato-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8673, Japan
Hasegawa M: Toyohashi Museum of Natural History, 1-238 Oana, Oiwa-cho, Toyohashi 411-3147, Japan