Report from 64 45'N

[Guy Van de Poel & A. Kalus]

The 'watchers' on this list would have gotten a better view ...

Guy


>Now Ken, remember to just watch the mosquito and when he is done let him
>fly off so others may enjoy him too.
>...................Chris Durden
>
>At 12:58 AM 6/10/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>>         Yesterday (9 June) the first _Clossiana chariclea_ (Arctic
>>Fritillary) of the summer turned up in the bog. Some workers maintain that
>>this is conspecific with what has been called _C. titania_ in North
America.
>>Since _titania_ flies in late summer every year in these bogs, while the
>>clearly different _chariclea_ flies (for a rather short period) in the
same
>>bogs in early summer on odd-numbered years only, I prefer to think the
>>story is more complicated. For the time being, I consider these two taxa
>>as representing different species--one of which ('_titania_', which may
not
>>be the same as the palaearctic _titania_) flies only in taiga, while the
>>other (_chariclea_) flies in taiga and tundra both, being an early-summer
>>species in taiga, a mid-summer species at and near treeline, and a late-
>>summer species at high elevations (or on the North Slope).
>
>My *C. titania grandis* specimens from Ontario and Quebec look very similar
>to *C. titania* specimens I have from Austria. I agree that they are very
>distinct from *C. chariclea* which itself probably includes two cryptic
>species - one arctic and one hudsonian, that fly together a places like
>Churchill and the Labrador coast.
>............Chris
>
>>An interesting
>>situation...
>>
>>                                                         Ken Philip
>>
>>P.S. The mosquitoes are out as well. As someone said recently in a
cartoon,
>>if you sit really still they'll come up and eat right out of your hand...
>>
>>
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