DESCRIPTION OF THE APPALACHIAN TIGER SWALLOWTAIL (P. appalach iensis)

[Grkovich, Alex]

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TILS (The International Lepidoptera Survey) has finally released the long
expected paper on the new species of Tiger Swallowtail in the East. I myself
had the oportunity to observe and also collect the newly described species
in the Appalachian and Allegheny Mountain regions of Virginia and West
Virginia late last month, and as such had the opportunity to verify for
myself in the field some  of the observations made recently by Harry
Pavulaan and Ron Gatrelle regarding P. appalachiensis, and its relationship
to the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, P. glaucus.

I have also for quite some time been rather perplexed and confused as to the
"Tiger Swallowtails" occuring in southern New England, and how the concept
of a single "Eastern Tiger Swallowtail" (along with the northern Canadian
Tiger Swallowtail, P. canadensis) in that region just does not seem to work
quite well enough. It is entirely possible that it will be determined in the
near future that the range of the newly described species extends well
beyond the southern and central Appalachian region and into New England as
well. More observations and field work on this subject will be required.

Alex Grkovich
Staff Researcher, TILS

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