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[Sean Patrick Mullen]

Greetings,

I'm new to the list but I want to put out a general request.

I'm a graduate student at Cornell University and I'm working on 
hybridization and reproductive isolation in North American Admiral 
butterflies (Limenitis) for my dissertation.

At the moment, I am working on a population-level survey of 
mitochondrial DNA diversity in both the Viceroy (L. archippus) and 
the White Admiral/Red-Spotted Purple (L. arthemis arthemis/L. 
arthemis astyanax).

As many of you know, these two species have very large geographic 
ranges...far larger than I can personally sample.  As a general 
request, I would like to ask for voluntary donations of these two 
species from as many geographic portions of their ranges as possible. 
Ideal specimens will be preserved in ethanol or shipped cold.


I have upstate New York covered *smile* and I'm going to do some 
collecting on the east coast this Spring. Therefore, specimens from 
the western populations will be particularly valuable to me.  In 
addition, I am interested in obtaining a few specimens of Lorquin's 
(L. lorquini) and Wiedemeyer's (L. wiedemeyerii) Admirals for use in 
phylogenetic analyses.



I apologize for the informality of this posting but it seemed to be 
the best way to reach a broad audience.  If anyone is interested in 
helping out, I encourage them to contact me personally at 
spm23 at cornell.edu.  All participants will be duly recognized in the 
acknowledgements of all publications for which there tissues are 
used.  Thank you all for your time.


Sincerely,

Sean P. Mullen
Graduate Research Assistant
Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Corson Hall, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
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