tintarron

[Michael Joseph]

AFter Nabokov, "tintarron" served as inspiration for the name of a
butterfly, one of a number of butterflies intentionally given 'Nabokovian
names.'

"Madeleinea tintarrona BLINT & JOHNSON 1994 [Lycenidae]: a polyommatine
butterfly currently known only from the type locality in Peru (La Oroya)
where it was collected in 1900. The males are cloisonne blue, with a black
margin wide at the apex and narrow at tornus. The females unknown. The
forewing length is 8 mm. Named for Tintarron, the precious deep blue glass
made in the mountains of Zembla, here referring to the dorsal ground color
of this species. OD: Zsolt Blint / Kurt Johnson: Synopsis of the High
Andean and Austral Polyommatine Genus Madeleinea BLINT 1993 (Lepidoptera,
Lycaenidae), Reports of the Museum of Natural History, University of
Wisconsin (Stevens Point), 43, 1995, p. 1213."

See "Excerpts from A GUIDE TO NABOKOV'S BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS"
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/dzbutt7.htm.


Michael