Fw: Satyrodes appalachia

[Ron Gatrelle]

Fantastic! I am finally a lumper! 
Leroy, well said. I, of course, along with the other "spliters" subscribed (mine is conditional) to this list, are open, curious, and inspired to do more collecting and research. Your point is now crystal clear "the conclusion that there are more than two subspecies."

The problem is that many of the current powers that be don't even see two.
(Need to lay low, quit post here. OK)
RG 
Ah, what the heck. Leroy, I don't think someone can be an expert who lacks a lot of field experience. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Leptraps at aol.com 
  To: gatrelle at tils-ttr.org 
  Cc: LEPS-L at lists.yale.edu 
  Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 9:22 AM
  Subject: Re: Satyrodes appalachia


  I guess I failed to "make" a point in my post on Satyrodes appalachia. The 
  point I should have made is that I have specimens from much of the eastern 
  United States. Like many others species that occur from central Florida to 
  the Great Lakes, there are differences in appearances. Several of these 
  "differences" became subspecies. Others are intermediates. I have read the 
  books including Ron's paper and have come to the conclusion that there are 
  more than two subspecies. I am NO EXPERT. I am a field worker and collector. 

  In front of e are my specimens. The largest and darkest brown are from 
  Florida. I have a number of specimens from the mountains of western Virginia. 
  From a location known as Little Meadows in Giles County, and the famous 
  Poverty Hollow in Montgomery County are not quite as large, but just as dark. 
  From another location near Black Mountain, Wise County, Virginia, I have 
  rather small but dark specimens. I also have one from Red River Gorge, 
  Menifee County, Kentucky that is large but not as dark, this matches my 
  specimens from Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and West Virginia. My specimens 
  from western Kentucky are dark but not very large. I have specimens from 
  Mississippi that are larger and not as dark. I also have specimens from 
  northeastern Ohio and Michigan that are large but grayish/brownish. I have a 
  female from Liberty Bog, Jackson County, Michigan that is gray. However, the 
  most interesting specimens in my series are from a location in the mountains 
  of central Virginia northwest of the town of Blue Grass, Highland County. 
  They are large and slate gray in color. They share the habitat with Enodia 
  anthedon. A dry oak forest. I have also taken them amongst the rocks at the 
  top of Jack Mountain just across the border in West Virginia, here they were 
  typical dark brown S. appalachia. 
  I am sure that they all fit someplace into Ron's description. Nature does not 
  always follow the descriptions that we write in books and papers. Nature is 
  ever changing. My collection is evidence of those changes. 

  I still don't think I made any real point other than I am not sure I made a 
  point at all! 

  That last statement was just as confusing as my series of S. appalachia. 









  Leroy C. Koehn 
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