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Tribe Danaini - Milkweed Butterflies
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. And flowing from his training (MS in Plant Pathology; PhD in Horticulture/Plant Breeding & Genetics), decades of experience teaching college biology courses ...and many years of study, enchantment, & devotion for asclepiads...the book's organization & presentation style are clear, informative, and entertaining — and the content is rich and fascinating.
Chapters cover in detail:
1) the fascinating subject of milkweed floral structure and associated insect behavior in pollination;
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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
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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 |
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.
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 |
Butterflies of Pennsylvania, a field guide By James L. Monroe, David M. Wright
University of Pittsburgh Press
From the publishers page:
https://upittpress.org/books/9780822964551/
This work has all of the features that make field guides to a region's butterfly fauna useful to anyone with a serious interest in that fauna. . . . the book is a bargain and a must for anyone with an interest not just in Pennsylvania's fauna, but the northeast fauna as a whole.
News of the Lepidopterists' Society
Winner, 2017 National Outdoor Book Award
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Though I am in the southeast, I own this field guide and find it very useful - Roy Cohutta Brown.
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The Tent Caterpillars By Terrence D. Fitzgerald
Cornell University Press, 1995
All aspects of the biology of tent caterpillars.
Comprehensive.
ISBN-13: 978-0801424564
ISBN-10: 0801424569
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Butterflies of Oregon, Their Taxonomy, Distribution, and Biology By Andrew D. Warren
C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, Dept. of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Colorado State University, 2005
408 pages
Book / paper is referenced extensively by other authors (Pyle, James, Nunnallee, etc.)
in their butterfly books about Cascadia / Pacific Northwest.
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