{"title":"Taxonomic changes in the Neotropical Pericopina and Ctenuchina moths (Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini), with description of new taxa","authors":"V. Becker","doi":"10.5962/p.332188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.332188","url":null,"abstract":"Thirty four species, belonging to 10 genera are treated; one genus and 53 species names are new synonyms, six are revised synonyms; one new and one revised combinations, and six new and three revised species are established; 11 lectotypes are designated.","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71216303","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":"New and revised descriptions of the immature stages of some butterflies in Sri Lanka and their larval food plants (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Part 1: Polyommatinae and Theclinae, in part","authors":"George Van der Poorten, Nancy van der Poorten","doi":"10.5962/p.332187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.332187","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71216294","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":"Neotropical palm-inflorescence feeding moths (Lepidoptera: Batrachedridae, Blastobasidae, Cosmopterigidae, Gelechiidae, Pyralidae, Tineidae): a review of the literature and new records from Trinidad, West Indies","authors":"M. Cock, D. Burris","doi":"10.5962/p.332186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.332186","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71216119","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":"Lepidoptera Argentina, Parte I: Castniidae by F. C. Penco, 2011","authors":"K. Fiedler","doi":"10.5962/p.332185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.332185","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71216106","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":"Owlet caterpillars of Eastern North America by D. L. Wagner, D. F. Schweitzer, J. B. Sullivan & R. C. Reardon, 2011","authors":"K. Fiedler","doi":"10.5962/p.332184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.332184","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71216062","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":"The correspondence between John Gerould and William Hovanitz and the evolution of the Colias hybridization problem (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)","authors":"A. Shapiro","doi":"10.5962/p.266479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.266479","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71207008","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":"Survival patterns under Costa Rican field conditions of the gregarious caterpillar Euselasia chrysippe (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae), a potential biological control agent of Miconia calvescens (Melastomataceae) in Hawaii","authors":"P. E. Allen","doi":"10.5962/p.266484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.266484","url":null,"abstract":"Survival of Euselasia chrysippe, a natural herbivore of Miconia calvescens, was investigated under field and laboratory conditions in Costa Rica as part of a biological control program in Hawaii. Following its introduction to Pacific islands, M. calvescens has become a dominant invasive species and the gregarious caterpillar of E. chrysippe has emerged as a promising biological control candidate. Under laboratory conditions, survivorship from egg to adult was 63%. E. chrysippe produced viable clutches in an experimental field plot. Similar clutch sizes occurred in both natural habitats and the experimental plot. Stage-specific life tables encompassing two years in the experimental plot indicate that larval survivorship from egg to the end of the sixth instar was about 10%. Egg parasitism was low in natural habitats and nil under experimental conditions. Larval group sizes were similar in natural and experimental field conditions, suggesting that survivorship is similar in both environments. During the coldest dry period no larvae survived past the fifth instar. Rainfall was a limiting factor for the survivorship of E. chrysippe in the experimental plot, but temperature appears to be the factor that would limit the effect of E. chrysippe on M. calvescens in Hawaii. Efforts should be invested in natural quarantine facilities to provide a testing ground for this species in target environments.","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71207157","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":"Subspecies of the Violet Lacewing, Cethosia myrina (Nymphalidae: Heliconiinae), a protected butterfly from Sulawesi","authors":"R. Vane-Wright","doi":"10.5962/p.266482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.266482","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71207096","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 species of Neodactria Landry, 1995 (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae, Crambinae) from Arizona, USA","authors":"B. Landry, Valeriu Albu","doi":"10.5962/p.266488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.266488","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71207208","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":"Characteristics of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) that stopover at a site in coastal South Carolina during fall migration","authors":"J. W. Mccord, A. K. Davis","doi":"10.5962/p.266476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.266476","url":null,"abstract":"While the annual fall migration of eastern North American monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) to wintering sites in central Mexico is a well-known and frequently-studied phenomenon, one aspect of this behavior that remains poorly understood is the nature of their migratory stopovers. Like migrating birds, monarchs must stop frequently during their journey to rest and refuel (i.e. obtain food), and why they choose to stop and for how long are important pieces of information, yet these have rarely been examined for monarchs. In this study we utilized data from a long-term monarch migration tagging operation in South Carolina to address certain aspects of this knowledge gap. Monarchs are tagged at this site each fall and recaptured individuals are also noted. Here we compared the characteristics of these recaptured individuals (n=407 over 13 years) to those that were never recaptured (n=12,989), focusing specifically on their wing size and wing condition, which was scored on a 1-5 scale. We also looked for evidence that stopover lengths are influenced by size or condition. The overall recapture rate at this site was 3.1%, although there was a small degree of annual variation in this rate (ranging from 1.3 5.6%). Males were recaptured twice as often as females. Recaptured monarchs did not differ from non-recaptured monarchs in wing size, but did have greater wing damage and wear than non-recaptured individuals. The recapture rate was the highest (8.5%) for monarchs with the most worn and damaged wings, while the rate was the lowest (2.9%) for monarchs with the freshest wings with no damage. Furthermore, monarchs with highly damaged and worn wings tended to remain longer at the stopover site than those with no damage or wear. Taken together, these results indicate that wing condition influences whether or not monarchs remain at a stopover site and for how long. In addition, they suggest that monarchs with poor wing condition may have a slower pace of migration owing to their more frequent and longer stopovers.","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71206973","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}