{"title":"A new species of the genus Hyalophora Duncan, 1841 from Central Mexico (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae, Attacini)","authors":"W. Nässig, G. G., S. Naumann","doi":"10.5962/p.332198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.332198","url":null,"abstract":"A new species of the genus Hyalophora, H. mexicana sp. n., is described. Specimens from the Mexican Federal States of Zacatecas and Guanajuato as well as male genitalia are illustrated; a distribution map is included. The male holotype is deposited in Colección Nacional de Insectos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad México, Mexico. Only male specimens are known so far. The new species is compared with other Hyalophora species. The description of the new species is based on studies of imaginal morphology including male genitalia and mtDNA (COI barcode). H. mexicana sp. n. is a very large species for the genus, and with its combination of typical characters such as reddish colouration, rounded, drop-shaped ocellular patches of the wings, a reduced, quarter-circle band of blue scales in the subapical ocellus of the forewing and details in male genitalia structures it can be separated easily from all hitherto known northern species. In addition, some taxonomic and nomenclatural problems in Hyalophora are addressed.","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71215920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Zaman, Chris R. Tenney, M. Brunell, M. Chen, R. I. Hill
{"title":"Life history and Ecology of Speyeria adiaste clemencei (Comstock, 1925) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)","authors":"K. Zaman, Chris R. Tenney, M. Brunell, M. Chen, R. I. Hill","doi":"10.5962/p.332196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.332196","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71215860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatial distribution and habitat assessment of Panoquina errans (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) in San Diego County, California","authors":"Keith Greer","doi":"10.5962/p.332195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.332195","url":null,"abstract":". Panoquina errans (Skinner, 1892), commonly known as the wandering skipper, is restricted to a narrow band of disjunct salt marsh habitat extending along the west coast of North America from Santa Barbara Co., California to the southern tip of Baja California, Mexico. A determination by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of whether it represents an endangered or threatened species could not be made owing to a paucity of information on its biological vulnerability and threat. Based on a three-year survey (2010-2012) in San Diego Co., California, the species was observed in nine coastal lagoons and a coastal bluff. At all sites within the study area there was a significant correlation between the maximum annual observations of P. errans and the total area occupied by the larval host plant Distichlis spicata (Poaceae). The primary habitat for P. errans is coastal lagoons and coastal bluffs (100% of observations); elevations less than 5 m above mean sea level (98% of observations); within 25 m of patches of D. spicata over 1 m 2 (75% of observations); and containing Frankenia , Cakile , or Heliotropium (95% of observations).","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71216258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mosquitoes feeding on caterpillars of the Common Buckeye butterfly, Junonia coenia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)","authors":"L. Hribar","doi":"10.5962/p.332197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.332197","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71215887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notes on the immature stages of Setabis sp., a myrmecophagous riodinid butterfly (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae)","authors":"G. Ballmer, D. Wright","doi":"10.5962/p.332194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.332194","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71216248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Survey of the butterflies of the Sutter Buttes, California","authors":"Melissa R. L. Whitaker, E. Long","doi":"10.5962/p.332193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.332193","url":null,"abstract":"The Sutter Buttes are a small, isolated mountain group in the center of northern California’s Central Valley. Their location, nearly equidistant between the Coast Range and Sierra Nevada, make the Buttes biogeographically unique. Due to a histoi-y of private ownership public and scientihc access to these mountains has been limited and much remains to be known about the natural histoi^ and ecology of the area. A previous survey of Sutter Buttes butterflies recorded sitrprisingly few species, and was suspected to represent an incomplete record of the butterfly diversity of the area. In order to a.ssess the accuracy of this stirvey and explore the biogeographic relationships of the btttterflies of north-central California, we performed surveys of the btitterfly fauna of the Sutter Buttes. Over two years we performed bi-weekly transects and recorded species presence, abundance, and phenology as well as information about commetn butterfly host plants fotmd there. Utilizing comparisons of transect data from the Coast and Sierra Nevada Ranges we found that the Sutter Buttes butterfly fatma more closely resembles the Central Valley floor fauna than that of either nearby mountain range. Our results also indicate that the Sutter Buttes harbor a significantly depaiqterate butterfly fauna: several btitterfly species that are common at sites in the Central Valley, Coast Range, or the Sierra foothills are not present in the Sutter Buttes. We discu.ss possible reasons for the.se absences, inchiding hre regime, host plant abundance, and nectar availability, and pre.sent","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71216191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new Entheus (Hesperiidae: Eudaminae) from Colombia and Panama is most distinctive in the E. gentius group","authors":"N. Grishin","doi":"10.5962/p.332192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.332192","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71216183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Watts, D. Thornburrow, B. Clarkson, Shay B. Dean
{"title":"Distribution and abundance of a threatened stem-boring moth, Houdinia flexilissima, (Lepidoptera: Batrachedridae) in New Zealand peat bogs","authors":"C. Watts, D. Thornburrow, B. Clarkson, Shay B. Dean","doi":"10.5962/p.332191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.332191","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71216174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Honeydew feeding in adult Noctuidae and Erebidae – some observations and a note on differing modes of access","authors":"P. Sansum","doi":"10.5962/p.332190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.332190","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"04 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71216166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Karlla V. C. Barbosa, Thiago Vernaschi Vieira da Costa
{"title":"Notes on the morphology and larval development of Methona themisto (Hübner, 1818) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Ithomiini) from southeastern Brazil","authors":"Karlla V. C. Barbosa, Thiago Vernaschi Vieira da Costa","doi":"10.5962/p.332189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.332189","url":null,"abstract":"Little has been published on the natural history, immature stages and development of the Neotropical butterfly genus Methona Doubleday, 1847. In spite of being relatively common where it occurs, many aspects of the morphology and development of Methona themisto (Hübner, 1818) still are poorly known. Here we describe the morphology and duration of the egg, larval and pupal stages of Methona themisto in Southeastern Brazil. A single plant of Brunfelsia uniflora (Solanaceae) was chosen by the butterflies to lay their eggs, and larvae and pupae were reared on it. Adults were observed laying single, white eggs mostly on the abaxial surface of fresh leaves. All larval instars were black with 12 yellow bands, except for the first few days after molting, when they were dark brown with green heads and anal plates. The pupa was pendant, with a mean length of 2.24 cm. It was pale yellow with black stripes and the body was slightly bent where the abdomen joined the wing-pad apices. Mean duration of the pupal stage was approximately 14 d. We did not observe any relationship between pupal duration and weather conditions or the time of year.","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71216315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}