Checkerspot-E. San Diego Co.

[wanda]

With all the Genus conversation, checked the 12/98 Emmel "Systematics of
Western North American Butterflies."   Interestingly it shows Euphydryas
for chalcedona and editha plus two split species colon and anicia!  

Understand this work was widely peer reviewed and also will be accepted
by NABA..... 

Cheers,
Wanda Dameron
Flutterby Press
Los Angeles, Calif.



Niklas Wahlberg wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
>    Just to make things a bit more confusing: in my cladistic analysis of
> checkerspot DNA sequences, Thessalia comes out in the middle of Chlosyne
> and so should be lowered to subgeneric rank, unless you want to create a
> new genus for the Central American Chlosyne... You can see a phylogeny of
> the checkerspots at http://www.helsinki.fi/science/metapop/phylogeny.html
> 
> Cheers,
> Niklas
> 
> At 16:10 17.3.1999 -0900, Kenelm Philip wrote:
> >
> >>        And of course to confuse things further, I'll throw in the fact
> >>     that the NABA checklist uses Thessalia as the genus name for the
> >>     Leanira Checkerspot.
> >
> >       The NABA list is hardly unique in that respect. Both the Hodges
> >checklist (MONA) and the Miller/Brown catalogue use _Thessalia_ for this
> >subgroup of _Chlosyne_ and raise it to generic rank. So this usage has
> >been stable for some 16 years, at least...
> >
> >                                                       Ken Philip
> >fnkwp at uaf.edu
> >
> >
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