The database contains images of the butterfly specimens upon which Linnaeus based his descriptions. Linnaeus described 305 taxa under the name Papilio. Of these, 241 refer to currently valid butterfly ...

In the language of flowers, lilacs (Syringa ... The genus was first named by Carl Linnaeus in the mid-1700s. Syringa comes from the Greek word for “tube” or “pipe” (styrix) and is believed ...