[SPAM] - Re: Pipe vine swallowtails in Pa or NJ? - Found word(s) check out in the Text body

[Grkovich, Alex]

Has anyone documented consistent differences in the adults, from the two regions??? That's what I'm wondering about? I have good series from TX, but not enough from southern New England...However, the New England specimens seem to have a bit of a different "look" to them...such as stronger light markings at the wing margins etc.

Alex

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dale Clark [SMTP:nardoz at earthlink.net]
> Sent:	Saturday, November 05, 2005 9:27 AM
> To:	drdn at mail.utexas.edu; Grkovich, Alex
> Cc:	Tondaleo at hotmail.com; leps-l at lists.yale.edu
> Subject:	[SPAM] - Re:  Pipe vine swallowtails in Pa or NJ?  - Found word(s) check out in the Text body
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> I've found this *B. philenor* larval polymorphism here in north Texas as
> well but as far as I can tell the reason for the difference is where you
> find the larvae.  When oviposition occurs on *Aristolochia tomentosa* or
> other pipevines found in shaded areas the larvae are dark.  Larvae on
> low-growing species of *Aristolochia* such as *A. erecta* or *A. fimbriata*
> that are in the full sun will have the lighter colored orange/red variety. 
> I've reared them from a single female and get the two coloration
> differences by placing one in shade and one in full sun.
> 
> Dale Clark
> Dallas County Lepidopterists' Society
> www.dallasbutterflies.com
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> 
> > [Original Message]
> > From: <drdn at mail.utexas.edu>
> > To: <agrkovich at tmpeng.com>
> > Cc: <Tondaleo at hotmail.com>; <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
> > Date: 11/4/2005 10:40:58 PM
> > Subject: RE: [SPAM] - Re: Pipe vine swallowtails in Pa or NJ? - Found
> word(s) check out in the Text body
> >
> > Yes. In TX and AZ there is larval polymorphism. Most are normally dark
> but in
> > some areas (often sand barrens) there is an orange/red var. This has been
> noted
> > in the literature a number of times. So far nobody has come up with adult
> > characters that are correlated with these larval differences.
> > ..................Chris Durden
> >
> > Quoting "Grkovich, Alex" <agrkovich at tmpeng.com>:
> >
> > > Here's a question that I've thought about for awhile...Does anyone see
> any
> > > consistent differences between Pipevines that occur along the East
> Coast and
> > > those, say; in Texas and the southwest etc. ???
> > > 
> > > Alex
> > > 
> > > 
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