Salt Marsh Skipper in Connecticut?

[JH]

Panoquina panoquin is not listed among the butterflies found on the atlas project, nor does it appear on the CBA checklist which was compiled with the help of the people Clay mentioned.  However, the checklist was prepared three years prior to the "mysterious" report in '98.  If it was found in '98 it appears that it wasn't reported to the atlas committee (the cenus was still in progress at that time).   In fact, it is not even listed on the page "Missing Species List".

It would be nice to know more about that reference to it in Butterflies Through Binoculars.  I would imagine, as Lenny Brown suggested to Clay, that since any Salt Marsh Skipper found in CT would find itself at the extreme north of its range, Fairfield County would offer the best odds for finding it - not that it's ever a bad idea to look for them when you are in the right habitat no matter where in the state it is!

Still dreaming of finding CT's first Early Hairstreak in the NW corner one of these springs! - right Clay?  

John
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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Clay Taylor <CTaylor at swarovskioptik.com>
    To: HpAzures at aol.com <HpAzures at aol.com>; ctleps-l at lists.yale.edu <ctleps-l at lists.yale.edu>
    Date: Sunday, August 26, 2001 1:15 PM
    Subject: Re: Salt Marsh Skipper in Connecticut?
    
    
    Harry -
    
        The only notice that I or any of the CBA regulars have seen is Jeff Glassberg's cryptic notation in the revised Butterflies Through Binoculars - the East.  I have been meaning to (but never made the time to) send out an inquiry to Gall, Norris, Wagner, O'Donnell, et al to see if they had any knowledge of that record.  In a related fit of laziness, I have not checked the CT Butterfly Atlas data for it, either.  
    
        I put in a lot of hours looking through the Barn Island and Great Island, CT marshes for P. panoquin during the Atlas years, but to no avail.   Lenny Brown thinks that Fairfield county is a better bet.
    
    Clay Taylor
        ----- Original Message ----- 
        From: HpAzures at aol.com 
        To: ctleps-l at lists.yale.edu 
        Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 10:21 PM
        Subject: Salt Marsh Skipper in Connecticut?
        
        
        Does anybody have any information regarding a supposed recent report (1998?) 
        of the Salt Marsh Skipper (Panoquina panoquin) in Connecticut?  I am doing 
        some research on the original type locality of the species which is 
        supposedly in Connecticut but it has never been reported in the state since.   
        Does anybody know if it is still in Connecticut?  For those interested, NOW 
        is the right time to find it.  Look around the periphery of salt marshes for 
        any nectar plants.  They are avid nectar lovers. 
        
        Thanks, 
        Harry Pavulaan 
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