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Minor side story rosseli / rosseliana / rosselianus (1 Viewer)

Taphrospilus

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Just the example Tanysiptera galatea rosseliana Tristram,1889 OD ser.6:v.1=no.1-4 (1889) - Ibis - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Rossel Island
Maybe more birds contain one of the three names.

Rossel I. / Yela, Louisiade Archipelago, New Guinea.

Of course correct. I just want to mention the island was named for Élisabeth Paul Édouard de Rossel (1765-1829) Élisabeth-Paul-Édouard de Rossel – Wikipedia

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