It is confusing and in recent communications with Pelham, he admits he made
some errors. He just sent corrected papers today so give it a few days and then
BugGuide and the Moth Photographers Group should have the correct names.
Ken Childs
Beech Bluff, TN
Madison County
http://tinyurl.com/Lepidoptera-of-Western-TN
http://www.finishflagfarms.com
On Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 02:44:31 PM CDT, david dodd
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What source do you have for the eight species? Butterfliesofamerica.com has
the Pelham Catalog which was revised Feb 2022. (Has there been another
revision?) It has genus Dione, subgenus Agraulis and species Dione incarnata,
subspecies Dione incarnata nigrior and D. i, incarnata. But the thumbnail pages
show Agraulis vanillae incarnata as in SW US, Agraulis vanillae nigrior as SE
US. So the Pelham Catalog hasn't been used to update the thumbnail pages.
Quite honestly, I think it is confusing.
On the Butterflies of Alabama Facebook group, there have been about 700
individual Gulf Fritillaries reported--most of them in August.
David DoddBoaz, Alabama
On Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 11:27:07 AM CDT, kjchilds
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I recently discovered that the scientific name for the Gulf Fritillary is no
longer Agraulis vanillae. Earlier this year, Agraulis vanillae was split into 8
species. The species found in the US is now Agraulis incarnata.
Speaking of gulf frits, have any of you seen many of them this year? I've seen
2 and those were here more than a month ago.
Ken Childs
Beech Bluff, TN
Madison County
http://tinyurl.com/Lepidoptera-of-Western-TN
http://www.finishflagfarms.com
