Fw: Re: [SoWestLep] Chlosyne marina/eumeda

Hank Brodkin hbrodkin at earthlink.net
Sun Sep 8 14:14:35 EDT 2002


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Subject: Fwd: Re: [SoWestLep] Chlosyne marina/eumeda


> 
> Hi Hank,
> 
> I am no longer on leps-l, so feel free to forward my 
> response to your message to that group.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Andy
> 
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> warrena at science.oregonstate.edu -----
> Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 09:37:56 -0700 (PDT)
> From: warrena at science.oregonstate.edu
> Reply-To: warrena at science.oregonstate.edu
> Subject: Re: [SoWestLep] Chlosyne marina/eumeda
> To: Hank Brodkin <hbrodkin at earthlink.net>
> 
> 
> I actually just finished going over all of this a few
> days ago....
> 
> Higgins (1960) treated C. marina as a separate species
> from C. eumeda (and included melitaeoides as a ssp. of
> eumeda).
> Scott (1986) lumped these all into one species, which
> has resulted in a lot of confusion.  More recently,
> Kons (2000- see below) and Luis-Martinez et al. (in
> press) have treated eumeda, marina, and melitaeoides
> all as distinct species (and this is apparently
> Mullins' opinion on the status of these taxa; Doug
> please correct me if I am wrong).
> 
> The bug Hank et al. recently photographed mear Maycoba
> sounds like the Sonoran variety of marina (which I have
> seen in good numbers around Rio Pedegroso with Jim
> Brock).
> 
> The bug illustrated in Stewart et al (2001) is a C.
> eumeda.  Excellent illustrations of melitaeoides are
> provided by Kendall & McGuire (1984: p. 29).
> 
> I hope this helps,
> 
> Best,
> Andy
> LITERATURE:
> 
> Higgins, L.G.  1960. A revision of the melitaeine genus
> Chlosyne and allied species (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae).
> Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of
> London 112(14):381-475.
> 
> Kendall, R.O. & W.W. McGuire. 1984. Some new and rare
> records of Lepidoptera found in Texas. Bulletin of the
> Allyn Museum 86:1-50.
> 
> Kons, H.L. 2000. Phylogenetic studies of the Melitaeini
> (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) and a revision of the genus
> Chlosyne Butler. Ph.D. dissertation, University of
> Florida, Gainesville. 812 pp. [NOTE that this
> manuscript can be downloaded FOR FREE from the
> following site (check out other papers on the taxonomy
> of the melitaeini by Wahlberg et al. while you are
> there):
> http://www.zoologi.su.se/research/wahlberg/downloads/
> 
> Luis-Martinez, A., J. Llorente-Bousquets, I. Vargas-
> Fernandez & A.D. Warren. (in press- to appear in
> December). Biodiversity and biogeography of Mexican
> butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea and
> Hesperioidea). Proceedings of the Entomological Society
> of Washington.
> 
> Scott, J.A. 1986. The Butterflies of North America: A
> Natural History and Field Guide. Stanford University
> Press. 583pp.
> 
> Stewart, B., P. Brodkin & H. Brodkin. 2001. Butterflies
> of Arizona, A Photographic Guide. West Coast Lady
> Press, Arcata, California. ii + 415 pp.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting Hank Brodkin <hbrodkin at earthlink.net>:
> 
> > Earlier this week, after the SEABA trip to
> > Alamos, Sonora, we spent a couple
> > of days in the Yecora area.
> > East of Yecora near Maycoba, we saw a number of
> > individuals of the form of
> > C. marina/eumeda that had the red rectangles on
> > the sub-marginal band of the
> > hind wing broken by one dark rectangle with a
> > small white dot in the middle.
> > We did get some pictures which are being
> > developed now.
> > A few years ago west of Yecora we photographed a
> > Chlosyne (see Stewart et al
> > "Butterflies of Arizona...." page 365) with the
> > row of red rectangles
> > unbroken.
> > Can anyone tell me which form is marina and
> > which is eumeda?  I know Doug
> > Mullins has been working on this.
> >
> > --------------------
> > Hank Brodkin
> > Carr Canyon, Cochise County, AZ
> > hbrodkin at earthlink.net
> > SouthEast Arizona Butterfly Association
> > (SEABA)
> > http://www.naba.org/chapters/nabasa/home.html
> > "Butterflies of Arizona - a Photographic
> > Guide"
> > by Bob Stewart, Priscilla Brodkin and Hank
> > Brodkin
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~hbrodkin/book.html
> >
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