A new species of sack-bearer moth (Lepidoptera, Mimallonidae) from Florida [PDF]
ZooKeysA rarely reported new species of Mimallonidae from Florida, USA, is described. Remarkably, the distinctive new species has not been seen across much of its historical range since the 1960s, and all records come from six somewhat isolated white sand ...
Ryan A. St Laurent +2 more
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Population Genetic Structure of a Rare Butterfly in a Fragmented South Florida Ecosystem
Insects, 2023 We investigated the genetic structure and diversity between populations of a rare butterfly, the Florida duskywing (Ephyriades brunnea floridensis E. Bell and W.
Emily Heffernan +5 more
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Variation in Lepidopteran Occurrence in Hemlock-Dominated and Deciduous-Dominated Forests of Central Appalachia [PDF]
, 2018 Eastern hemlock, (Tsuga canadensis Carrière, Pinaceae), is threatened with extirpation by an exotic invasive herbivore, the hemlock woolly adelgid, (Adelges tsugae Annand, Homoptera: Adelgidae). Given this threat, a broader and more detailed knowledge of
Cornett, Z. +3 more
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Integrative taxonomic revision of Capilla Grishin, 2023, subgenus of Staphylus Godman & Salvin, 1896 (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae, Pyrginae, Carcharodini), with descriptions of four new species [PDF]
Arthropod Systematics & PhylogenyThe taxonomy of the subgenus Staphylus (Capilla) is reviewed, including redescriptions of known species, identification keys, and detailed distribution maps. The female genitalia of Staphylus (Capilla) azteca (Scudder, 1872), S.
José Ricardo Assmann Lemes +4 more
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The role of the North Atlantic Oscillation in controlling U.K. butterfly population size and phenology [PDF]
, 2012 Copyright @ 2012 The Authors. This article can be accessed from the links below.This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.1. The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) exerts considerable control on U.K. weather.
Alexander L.V. +10 more
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Blue Morpho Butterfly Morpho peleides Kollar (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)
EDIS, 2015 The blue morpho butterfly, also known as the peleides blue morpho or common blue morpho, is a brightly colored butterfly abundant in tropical environments in Central and South America.
Haleigh A. Ray, Jacqueline Y. Miller
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Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States, Part 1 (1923). William T. M. Forbes. Los Angeles: Entomological Reprint Specialists, 1969. 729 pp. $17.50. [PDF]
, 2017 Excerpt: Entomological Reprint Specialists have done a fine service to the field of entomology and the study of Lepidoptera in particular by making the first volume of Forbes\u27 work on the Lepidoptera of the northeastern states generally available ...
Hodges, Ronald W.
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Light environment drives evolution of color vision genes in butterflies and moths
Communications Biology, 2021 Yash Sondhi et al. annotate the genomes and transcriptomes of 175 Lepidoptera species and identify 14 independent opsin duplications associated with bright environments.
Yash Sondhi +4 more
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European Journal of Taxonomy, 2019 We provide the first comprehensive taxonomic revision of the poorly known South American butterfly genus Zischkaia Forster, 1964, hitherto regarded as including three described species.
Shinichi Nakahara +11 more
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A database and checklist of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera) from Colombia [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2021 Molecular DNA sequence data allow unprecedented advances in biodiversity assessments, monitoring schemes, and taxonomic works, particularly in poorly explored areas.
Leidys Murillo-Ramos +4 more
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