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The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey
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Date of this Version
12-1-2004
Document Type
Article
Citation
Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey (December 1, 2004) 6(1): 1-10
Also available at https://lepsurvey.carolinanature.com/ttr/ttr-6-1.pdf
Abstract
The univoltine Pterourus appalachiensis was described from the southern Appalachian Mountain region of the United States as a sympatric sibling of P. glaucus (Pavulaan & Wright 2002). A black form was unrecognized at that time. Subsequent sampling of populations at Spruce Knob, West Virginia, United States, revealed a unique black female phenotype present among typically yellow female appalachiensis. We believe that this phenotype represents a black female form of P. appalachiensis, thus broadening our understanding of this unusual species and firmly establishing its distinction from P. canadensis.
Comments
Copyright 2004, International Lepidoptera Survey. Open access material
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-SA-NC 4.0 International)