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| List: MassLep Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 22:07:23 +0200 From: Steven Whitebread <whitebreads1591...> Subject: Re: [MassLep] Leucistic American Copper?????? Feedback Pls. Cape Cod |
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The latest checklist of North American Lepidoptera (Pohl & Nanz, 2023)=20 treat them as separate species and they list 6 subspecies. They=20 therefore accept the findings of Zhang et al (2022): Taxonomic Report of=20 the International Lepidoptera Survey 10(7):1-60, which used whole genome=20 DNA sequencing to delineate the species and subspecies. Steven Whitebread On 14/08/2024 20:30, Josh wrote: > Hi Frank and all, > > The American vs. Small Copper thing is apparently one of those issues on = which the lepidopterists don=E2=80=99t all agree. On iNat, the Small Copper= is designated Lycaena phlaeas, while the American Copper is treated as a s= eparate species, L. hypophlaeas. BugGuide, on the other hand, treats them a= s you do: one big species on both sides of the Pond with a misleading commo= n name on our side. Neither resource gives any citation to scientific liter= ature to back up their treatment, irritatingly. > > BAMONA adds the intriguing suggestion that populations in the eastern and= midwestern USA were likely introduced from Scandinavia during colonial tim= es; I guess this implies that the populations from the Rockies westward col= onized under their own power prehistorically? > > JSR > > > Joshua S. Rose, Ph.D. > Amherst, MA > https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/opihiman > https://www.facebook.com/opihi > > Writer/compiler, Bird Observer > https://www.birdobserver.org/ > > Columnist, =E2=80=9CEarth Matters=E2=80=9D > https://www.gazettenet.com/search?bodysearch=3Dearth+matters > https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/category/earth-matters/ > > Vice-president, Hampshire Bird Club > https://hampshirebirdclub.org/ > > Northeast Chapter head, Dragonfly Society of the Americas > https://www.dragonflysocietyamericas.org/northeastdsa > > >> On Aug 14, 2024, at 1:06 PM, '<fsmodel...>' via MassLep <masslep@goog= legroups.com> wrote: >> >> All: >> >> To me, "leucistic" merely means "reduced pigmentation but not albino". L= OL >> >> "American Copper" is a chauvinistic misnomer. The species is Holarctic a= nd I've photographed it all over northern Europe [including the UK] and nor= thern Asia [including Tibet and Japan]. In the UK, it's called Small Copper= . The UK Butterflies website has catalogued all their aberrant forms and th= ere are many. See for yourself here: UK Butterflies - Aberrations >> UK Butterflies - Aberrations >> UK Butterflies - Aberrations >> >> Evidently, one could spend a lifetime photographing just this one specie= s, as would also be the case with the Red-Spotted Admirals in Massachusetts= . >> >> A fun hobby, no? >> >> Cheers, >> Frank >> >> On Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 04:58:15 AM PDT, 'Andrew Griffith' via = MassLep <masslep...> wrote: >> >> >> All, Not leucisistic, just the white form American Copper. ;) Kiddi= ng of course. This is a great find, Linnet! This is also interesting, b= ecause last year on the Crane July counts we also had one that wasn't quite= as white as this one but still quite odd looking. Photo attached here. = Andrew Griffith >>> On 08/13/2024 11:15 PM EDT '<fsmodel...>' via MassLep <masslep@googl= egroups.com> wrote: >>> Hi Linnet, Hi MassLep, >>> This is a credible sighting. I had a leucistic American Copper back = in 2010 in the Northampton Community Gardens. As it's the only one I saw in= twelve years of harassing butterflies in Massachusetts, I think it's likel= y they are quite rare. Congratulations! I paste a picture of mine below. >>> Cheers, >>> Frank Model >>> <1723605293492blob.jpg> " data-inlineimagemanipulating=3D"true"> >>> >>> On Tuesday, August 13, 2024 at 06:35:09 PM PDT, Linnet Tse <linnet.t= <se...> wrote: >>> =20 >>> I have a full report to come much later, but in trying to figure out on= e butterfly I saw today, I think it's a leucistic American Copper - without= the orange pigmentation. I tried looking it up but did not find anything w= hen quickly looking. >>> Frances A. Crane WMA in East Falmouth on the Cape, this afternoon Au= g 13. High 70's clear skies. >>> This individual along with other American Coppers, Pearl Crescents, = etc (MANY SPECIES!) were feeding on narrow-leaved mountain-mint. >>> See photo - feedback please! >>> https://wallaby.smugmug.com/Nature/Cape-Critters/2024-Cape-Critters/= 2024-Frances-Crane/n-ssF7Kk/i-k26Jqrr/A >>> Linnet Tse >>> East Dennis, MA >>> =20 >>> --=20 --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= MassLep" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an e= mail to masslep+<unsubscribe...> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/= masslep/<baff6146-4189-4f35-aa52-46a92d502627...> |
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