Boloria frigga or friggin bologna

[Roger Kuhlman]

Ron,

A very interesting series of posts here. I was wondering what "androconia" 
refers to. I have never heard of it before.

Roger Kuhlman


>Ron: This was a _big_ hypothetical to make the point of how too little
>information will yield a skewed result.  So leaving that... and going to an
>actual.  Assessing Lepidoptera just on the surface (at both the specific
>and subspecific levels) is a disservice to science.  The NA Celastrina
>(Azure Blues) for a century were just one (seasonally and regionally)
>variable species.   Today, we known that just looking at them with the
>human eye not only did not tell us what they are, but it actually led us to
>consider them something they were not - just "variations" of the old world
>argiolus.   The work of Pavulaan,Wright, Scott and others has fully
>demonstrated the multiple _cryptic-to-human-vision_ species within this
>genus in North America.  This is evidenced by their life history, larval
>morphology, male genitalia, and androconia.  It will be interesting to see
>how DNA studies will fit into this mix.


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