new online resources

[Grkovich, Alex]

By the way, while on the subject of "Eastern Tiger Swallowtails" that are
probably not Eastern Tiger Swallowtails (*Papilio glaucus glaucus*), does
anyone out there have an educated opinion of exactly WHAT that male "Eastern
Tiger Swallowtail" (again, *glaucus* - from Simcoe, Ontario) really is on
Plate 5 (I think it is) of the Butterflies of Canada book??? This specimen
is CERTAINLY not Papilio glaucus...Is it an Appy??? Is it perhaps yet
another undescribed eastern species of "Tiger"?? Note also the uncanny
similarity of that specimen to the male Western Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio
rutulus) illustrated on the same plate below it (again, going form
memory)... 

Comments anyone? (Just don't try to tell me that this is an Eastern
Tiger...because it AIN'T...)

Interesting just how much there really is still to learn about our
butterflies, even the more "common" ones, isn't it? (...not to mention the
moths...)

Alex

PS Simcoe, Ontario is, by the way, toward the eastern end of Lake Erie...and
this is obviously not too far removed from western New England... 
PPS Come to think of it, in the same book, there is an illustrated living
female specimen in the plates of living butterflies, feeding on milkweed;
the specimen is from Elgin Co., Ontario...on the north shore of Lake Erie,
where I lived as a youth...This female is NOT *glaucus* either...

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	HpAzures at aol.com [SMTP:HpAzures at aol.com]
> Sent:	Monday, November 22, 2004 11:23 AM
> To:	ctleps-l at lists.yale.edu
> Subject:	new online resources
> 
> All:
> 
> Volumes 1 through 3 of The Taxonomic Report are now available as a free
> online resource!  This includes descriptions of several new lepidopteran
> species and subspecies.  Go to:
> 
> www.tils-ttr.org
> 
> Navigate to The Taxonomic Report, click on any volume and download the pdf
> file.  You need Acrobat Reader to open these.  [NOTE: Papers in Vol. 4 are
> listed but only the first page is accessible.  The complete papers are
> available by purchasing them via Pay Pal.]
> 
> Many people have requested copies of the paper describing the Appalachian
> Tiger Swallowtail.  This can be downloaded at this shortcut:
> 
> http://www.tils-ttr.org/ttr/ttr-3-7.pdf
> 
> This is now the easiest way to obtain a copy.  
> 
> Note that work will be ongoing to try to determine if the large-sized
> Tiger Swallowtails flying in Connecticut in June are related to the
> Appalachian Tiger Swallowtail or if these are "something else" (i.e.:
> Eastern X Canadian Tiger hybrids; Eastern Tiger subspecies; another
> species; etc.).
> 
> While I'm on the subject of free downloads, check out the following link
> to free downloads of ALL archived issues of the Journal of Research on the
> Lepidoptera.  There is some great information available here:
> 
> http://www.doylegroup.harvard.edu/~carlo/JRL/contents.html
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Harry Pavulaan
> 
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