Fw: [SoWestLep] Chlosyne marina/eumeda

[Hank Brodkin]

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From: <warrena at bcc.orst.edu>
To: <warrena at science.oregonstate.edu>
Cc: "Hank Brodkin" <hbrodkin at earthlink.net>; "Southwest Lep Group"
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Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: [SoWestLep] Chlosyne marina/eumeda


>
> My apologies.  I messed up the URL to Wahlberg's site
> where the Kons thesis (and other papers) may be
> downloaded.  It is:
>
> http://www.zoologi.su.se/research/wahlberg/downloads
>
> Best,
>
> Andy
>
> Quoting warrena at science.oregonstate.edu:
>
> >
> > 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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