Phyciodes in CT

piper casel pipercasel at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 30 10:22:07 EST 2005 

Thank you guys...
for all of the information.
I feel like I belong to
a real butterfly club!

Does anyone else out there
feel totally intimidated?
The leps here in the Mojave
fly so fast and in such a
straight line...the only
thing I can identify is
Painted Lady. 

Barbara Sparks
Westwing


--- Dave Wagner <dwagner at uconnvm.uconn.edu> wrote:

> FW: RI BUTTERFLY FLIGHT CHART from Harry Pavulaan
> may also be of value for
> CT/Ma butterfliersClay,
> 
> I took all my crescents to Don Lafontaine last
> summer and he identified both
> Phyciodes cocyta and P. tharos from Connecticut. 
> And, of course, a bunch
> that didn't sort well one way or the other. 
> Interpretation of the
> mitochondrial sequence data for northeastern
> Phyciodes is far from straight
> forward--haplotypes are floating over species
> boundaries and the
> two/three/four species are not always distinct (to
> my eye).  For now, I am
> happy just to call them all tharos species complex. 
> To my mind they are not
> behaving as good species here.  I could be
> wrong...not much of a fan of
> single-character taxonomy...antennal club color does
> not a species make.
> 
> 
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: owner-ctleps-l at lists.yale.edu
> [mailto:owner-ctleps-l at lists.yale.edu]On Behalf Of
> Clay Taylor
>   Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 1:42 PM
>   To: agrkovich at tmpeng.com; CTLEPS-L at lists.yale.edu
>   Subject: Re: RI BUTTERFLY FLIGHT CHART from Harry
> Pavulaan may also be of
> value for CT/Ma butterfliers
> 
> 
>   All -
> 
>       Regarding Alex's #3, the listing of Pearl
> Crescents in all weeks is
> doubtless due to staggered timings of broods seen
> over a series of "early"
> and "late" emergence years.  There are always
> periods during a particular
> year when there are none to be found since they are
> between broods.
> 
>       As for the lack of Northern Crescent in RI, I
> am not aware of any
> specimens recorded in CT (Dave, anybody?...), which
> would make a RI record
> even less expected.
> 
>   Clay Taylor
>   Moodus, CT
>   ctaylor at att.net
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: Grkovich, Alex
>     To: CTLEPS-L at lists.yale.edu
>     Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 12:55 PM
>     Subject: FW: RI BUTTERFLY FLIGHT CHART from
> Harry Pavulaan may also be
> of value for CT/Ma butterfliers
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     -----Original Message-----
> 
>     From:   Grkovich, Alex
> 
>     Sent:   Tuesday, March 29, 2005 12:49 PM
> 
>     To:     'kingarthurarthur at yahoo.com'; blackstone
> valley
> 
>     Cc:     'Pavulaan at aol.com'
> 
>     Subject:        RE: RI BUTTERFLY FLIGHT CHART 
> from Harry Pavulaan may
> also be of value for CT/Ma butterfliers
> 
>     Arthur, harry et al,
> 
>     This is a very interesting and also very
> informative source...A few
> comments/questions:
> 
>     1. I note that the Zebra Swallowtail, a) is
> recorded from RI during
> mid-July, and has been reported, according to this,
> from mid-April through
> late August (all weeks) and into mid-September (CT
> and/or s. NY - I doubt
> that it has been taken in Mass. although the USGS
> shows a record from Essex
> Co. in northeast Mass which I would doubt)...That
> the Zebra has been
> recorded so frequently in presumably CT and NY is
> surprising...I understood
> that southeast Penn. is as far north as it breeds
> (also the northeastern
> range of its host); and the Zebra is also not a
> wide-ranging species, it
> "hangs" mostly around its host...Where and when has
> it been recorded in CT,
> RI or NY???...While living in Plymouth, MA a bunch
> of years ago I always
> expected to find it in the dilute southeastern pine
> forests in the area, but
> never did...
> 
>     2. "Canadian Tiger Swallowtail" recorded in
> April, may, early June and
> then again in mid-July and early August
> (!)...Hmmm...something is "fishy"
> here (Harry and I have talked many times about this
> and both feel this
> way)...sounds like something "else" is present in
> RI...I am quite certain
> that I have taken the Appalachian Tiger Swallowtail
> (P. appalachiensis*) at
> Wachusett Mountain, MA and in Westchester Co., NY in
> early June...and after
> examining vouchers that I have of supposedly
> "canadensis" in northern New
> England, I'm not even sure of some of those
> anymore...Much more field work
> is required here... And anyone who happens to have
> the book "Butterflies of
> Canada" (layberry et al) should carefully note how
> closely the male "Eastern
> Tiger Swallowtail" (*P. glaucus*, on PLate 5, I
> believe from memory)
> resembles the Western Tiger Swallowtail (*P.
> rutulus*) figured below it on
> the same plate...
> 
>     3. Pearl Crescent recorded all weeks, and
> Northern Crescent confirmed in
> no weeks, in RI, is also strange...How could the one
> be present non-stop,
> and the other not present at all? By the way, what
> has been typically
> "passed off" as "Northern Crescents" in eastern MA
> (including by myself) do
> not in fact look at all similar to (confirmed by
> DNA) actual Northern
> Crescents (*P. cocyta*) that I have taken in
> west-central Maine and in
> northern NH...and a male "Northern Crescent" that I
> have taken in
> northeastern MA in early September looks EXACTLY
> like the "Mimic Crescent"
> (*P. incognitus*) illustrated on the front page of
> Ron Gatrelle's recent
> paper in which he described this new species (see
> The International
> Lepidoptera Survey, tils-ttr.org).
> 
>     4. Records for "Little Wood Satyr - Type 1" and
> "Type 2" agree with my
> observations in eastern MA. The two seem to occupy
> slightly different
> habitats (the second in more shaded and brushy
> environments than the first)
> and also behave differently in the field.
> 
>     Just a few observations...there are other
> "quirky" things as well, that
> raise suspicion, such as Edwards' Spring Azure,
> recorded form late
> Oct./early Nov....but enough for now...Hopefully
> others out there will offer
> their own comments and other questions...
> 
>     Alex
> 
>       -----Original Message-----
> 
>       From:   owner-ctleps-l at lists.yale.edu
> [SMTP:owner-ctleps-l at lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of
> Arthur M. Plitt
> 
>       Sent:   Saturday, March 12, 2005 10:45 AM
> 
>       To:     blackstone valley
> 
>       Subject:        RI BUTTERFLY FLIGHT CHART 
> from Harry Pavulaan may
> also be of value for CT/Ma butterfliers
> 
>         This chart shows the adult flight periods of
> all butterflies
> recorded in Rhode Island & a few that come really
> close in MA or CT. You can
> access this file at the URL:
>      
>
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ButterflysocietyofRI/files/RI_brood%20c
> hart.XLS>
> 
> 
> 
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