Homer, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

[Chip Taylor]

This past summer while visiting "The Carl E. Wynn Nature Center" 
(http://www.akcoastalstudies.org/wynn-nature-center.html) I spoke 
with the summer interns about some of the leps I had seen in the 
area. They brought out their insect collection, a couple of boxes of 
locally collected insects. Among these were two specimens of Lycaena 
dorcas - dorcas copper. It occurred to me that these specimens 
represented a new record and I urged the interns to contact Kenelm 
Philip. I doubt that they did. Anyway, it appears that these 
specimens probably do represent a new record for the Kenai Peninsula 
- see map at 
(http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=1473&chosen_state=02*Alaska).

Chip Taylor
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