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Tribe Limenitidini - Admirals, Sisters and Sailors


A New Limenitis weidemeyerii W. H. Edwards from Southeastern Arizona (Nymphalidae)
By George T. Austin and Douglas Mullins
The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 225-228, 1984

Revision of the Limenitis weidemeyerii complex, with description of a new subspecies (Nymphalidae)
By Stephen F. Perkins and Edwin M. Perkins, Jr.
Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 213-234, 1967

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.

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
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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.

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.

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.

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

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.