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Genus Danaus
Milkweeds of the United States By Gene Thomas
Pollinia Publications, 2024
Excellent work by one the foremost milkweed enthusiasts in the country. Gene Thomas has traveled throughout the U.S. to see, study, and photograph each of our 76 species of Asclepias. The book's organization & presentation style are clear, informative, and entertaining — and the content is rich and fascinating. All this flows from the author's training (MS in Plant Pathology; PhD in Horticulture/Plant Breeding & Genetics), his decades of experience teaching college biology courses...and his many years of study, enchantment, & devotion for asclepiads.
Chapters cover in detail:
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The Monarch Butterfly - Biology and Conservation By Karen S. Oberhauser, and Michelle J. Solensky (eds.)
Cornell University Press, 2004
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Confirmation of Rhopalocera (Pieridae, Nymphalidae) previously recorded for Texas and the United States. By Kendall, R.O.
Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 28(3): 249-252., 1974
Full Text
Kendall, R.O. 1974. Confirmation of Rhopalocera (Pieridae, Nymphalidae) previously recorded for Texas and the United States. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 28(3): 249-252.
The object of this paper is to remove the dubious status of earlier reports of two species of Lepidoptera being found in Texas. Each species is represented at present by a single example only. Examples of earlier recordings have not been found; it is possible, however, that they do exist.
These species may represent single-brooded migrants which come to Texas from time to time.
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 3 January, 2018 - 10:58pm |
A catalogue/checklist of the butterflies of America, north of Mexico. By Miller, L.D. & F.M. Brown.
Memoirs of the Lepidopterists' Society 2: i-vii + 1-280., 1981
Full Text - BHL
Miller, L.D. & F.M. Brown. 1981. A catalogue/checklist of the butterflies of America north of Mexico. Memoirs of the Lepidopterists' Society 2: i-vii + 1-280.
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 2 September, 2024 - 3:07pm |
Genomic analysis reveals new species and subspecies of butterflies. By Zhang, J., Cong, Q., Shen, J., Song, L., & Grishin, N.V.
The Taxonomic Report 11(6): 1-62., 2023
Full Text - Zenodo
Zhang, J., Cong, Q., Shen, J., Song, L., & Grishin, N.V. (2023) Genomic analysis reveals new species and subspecies of butterflies. The Taxonomic Report 11(6): 1-62.
Abstract
Large-scale genomic sequencing of butterfly taxa reveals new findings that are presented here. While we focus on detecting species by comparative genomics and define subspecies as groups of populations genetically differentiated from each other but not as strongly as species (that is, subspecies as species in the making), we report other adjustments to butterfly classification.
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 1 September, 2024 - 5:08pm |
Additional taxonomic refinements suggested by genomic analysis of butterflies. By Zhang, J., Q. Cong, J. Shen, L. Song, P.A. Opler and N.V. Grishin
Taxonomic Report of the international Lepidoptera Survey 11(1): 1-25, 22 figs., 2023
Link to download - Zenoobo
Zhang, Jing, Qian Cong, Jinhui Shen, Leina Song, Paul Alexander Opler and Nikolay Vyacheslav Grishin. 2023. Additional taxonomic refinements suggested by genomic analysis of butterflies. Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 11(1): 1-25, 22 figs.
Abstract:
Comparative analyses of genomic data reveal further insights into the phylogeny and taxonomic classification of butterflies presented here. As a result, 2 new subgenera and 2 new species of Hesperiidae are described:
Borna Grishin, subgen. n. (type species Godmania borincona Watson, 1937) and
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 24 January, 2024 - 6:43pm |
Genomic evidence suggests further changes of butterfly names By Zhang, J., Q. Cong, J. Shen, P.A. Opler, N.V. Grishin
Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey, 8(7): 1-41., 2020
Zhang, J., Q. Cong, J. Shen, P.A. Opler, N.V. Grishin, 2020. Genomic evidence suggests further changes of butterfly names. Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey, 8(7): 1-41.
Contributed by Steve Nanz on 9 June, 2022 - 1:58pm |
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