James Jobling
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Grinding inexorably through my MS and the HBWAlive Key I have stumbled upon a glaring error regarding this eponym. I have amended the entry as follows, but would appreciate readers' further thoughts or evidence, especially in respect of John Whitehead's family.
● Female eponym; dedication not given (Sharpe 1888); probably after a relative of John Whitehead, the explorer and collector, or of Richard Bowdler Sharpe himself (e.g. his wife Emily Sharpe (b. 1843)) (Jobling 2010, and Beolens et al., 2014, are both in error; Emilie Hose (b. 1879) wife of English naturalist and collector Charles Hose, was only nine at the date of the description) (Chlorocharis).
● Female eponym; dedication not given (Sharpe 1888); probably after a relative of John Whitehead, the explorer and collector, or of Richard Bowdler Sharpe himself (e.g. his wife Emily Sharpe (b. 1843)) (Jobling 2010, and Beolens et al., 2014, are both in error; Emilie Hose (b. 1879) wife of English naturalist and collector Charles Hose, was only nine at the date of the description) (Chlorocharis).