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TORONTO ENTOMOLOGISTS ASSOCIATION Occasional Publication # 25 - 93 Butterflies of Ontario & Summaries of Lepidoptera Encountered in Ontario in 1992 ISBN #: 0-921631-13-8 BUTTERFLIES OF ONTARIO & SUMMARIES OF LEPIDOPTERA ENCOUNTERED IN ONTARIO IN 1992 BY ALAN J. HANKS PRODUCTION BY ALAN J. HANKS MAY 1993 CONTENTS PAGE 1. INTRODUCTION 1 2. WEATHER DURING THE 1992 SEASON 5 3. CORRECTIONS TO PREVIOUS T.E.A. SUMMARIES 6 4. SPECIAL NOTES ON ONTARIO LEPIDOPTERA 7 4.1 The Galium Sphinx Nectaring - RA. Layberry 7 4.2 The Giant Swallowtail in Carleton County - RA. Layberry 7 4.3 The Gray Hairstreak at its Northern Limits - RA. Layberry 8 4.4 Partial List ofMoths Collected at Zurich, Ontario - Q.F. Hess 9 4.5 Habitat Restoration at St. Williams and The Pinery - K. Stead 11 4.6 Rearing Notes for Northumberland County - W.J.D. Eberlie 13 4.7 The Mottled Dusky Wing in Ontario - W. Lamond 14 4.8 List ofButterflies Observed at the Metro Zoo in 1992 - T. Mason 15 4.9 The Tiger Swallowtail in Ontario - Q.F. Hess 17 5. GENERAL SUMMARY 18 6. 1992 SUMMARY OF ONTARIO BUTTERFLIES 20 Hesperiidae 20 Papilionidae 32 Pieridae 35 Lycaenidae 39 Libytheidae 49 Nymphalidae 50 Apaturidae 62 Satyridae 63 Danaidae 67 7. 1992 SUMMARY OF ONTARIO MOTHS 68 CONTINUOUS MOTH CYCLICAL SUMMARY 89 8. PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS 102 1. INTRODUCTION This is Occasional Publication # 25-93 ofthe Toronto Entomologists' Association. It is based on data selected from reports for 1992 (or as otherwise indicated) for the Province of Ontario (Canada) as contributed by members and non members ofthe Association as listed below: R.L. Bowles (RLB) Orillia Paul McGaw (PM) Toronto Robert Curry (RC) Ancaster Michael & Nancy VemeEvans (VB) van der Poorten (MNP) Toronto Jim Heslop (JH) John Prideaux (JP) Toronto Barry Jones (BJ) Chris Rickard (CR) Mississauga K. McLaughlin (KAM) Duncan Robertson (DR) Kingston John Olmsted (JO) Hamilton Tim Sabo (TS) Weston Greg Daniels (GD) North York Doug Scovell (DS) Nottawa Sid Daniels (SD) North York Carol Sellers (CS) Toronto Dr. W.lD. Eberlie (WIDE) Cobourg Ken Stead (KS) Brantford Wm.M.M. Edmonds(WE) Toronto Lloyd Taman (LT) Matachewan Barry Harrison (BH) Scarborough Nick Tzovolos (NT) Toronto Quimby F. Hess (QFH) North York Kirk Zufelt (KZ) Hamilton Gordon Vogg (GV) Alan Wormington (AW) Leamington Bill Lamond (WL) Hamilton Barbara Charlton (BNC) Waterloo Kathleen Gardiner (KG) B.M. Chomyshyn (BMC) Kingsville Robert Dobos (RZD) M.L. Chomyshyn (MLC) Kingsville Barbara Charlton (BNC) Robert H. Curry (RC) Ancaster John Galloway (JG) Greg C. Daniels (GCD) Willowdale Brian McHattie (BM) RobZ. Dobos (RZD) Waterloo Christine Bishop (CB) JonL. Dunn (JLD) Dayton,OH Marina Galloway (MG) N.G. Escott (NGE) Thunder Bay JeffLarson (JL) Windsor R. G. Finlayson (RGF) Hamilton Ross A. Layberry (RAL) Ottawa James N. Flynn (JNF) Wheatley Ray Holland (RH) Ottawa June M. Gordon (JMG) Wheatley Bob Bracken (BB) Ottawa M.K. Matheson (MKM) Wheatley David Biggs (DB) Ottawa Steven T. Pike (STP) Windsor Peter Hall (PH) Ottawa Ronald C. Ridout (RCR) St. Williams Dave Gravelle (DG) Ottawa Sue Utterback (SU) Dayton,OH Steve Wendt (SW) Ottawa The basis for selection ofthe data included in this publication was as follows: a) New information on range and new occurrence localities; b) Valuable data on flight period, broods and population monitoring, and c) Life history data including foodplants, nectar sources, larval description and habits, ovipositing data and behaviour, pupal description and siting, adult habits, predation, etc. Occasional Publication #'s 10 through 25 are designed to complement each other in such a way as to present in a common format all the information (as selected) known to the compiler with respect to Ontario Lepidoptera to the end of 1992. Please note that Section 3 in each ofthese publications addresses the corrections required to previous T.E.A. Occasional Publications. 1 Section 6 ofthis publication is organised in accordance with "A Catalogue/Check-list ofthe Butterflies of North America North ofMexico" by Lee D. Miller and F.M. Brown (Lepidopterists' Society Memoir No. 2 - 1981) as corrected by "Supplem~nt to A Catalogue/Checklist of the Butterflies of North America North of Mexico" by Clifford D. Ferris, Editor (Lepidopterists' Society Memoir No.3 - 1989). The compiler has also noted, where of interest, the usage of James A. Scott in his "The Butterflies ofNorth America" (1986). The common names are as per Alexander B. Klots - "A Field Guide to the Butterflies ofNorth America, East ofthe Great Plains", except in a few cases not included in Klots. For the Moths, "Check List ofthe Lepidoptera ofAmerica North ofMexico (1983)" by Ronald W. Hodges et al. is used. The contents of this publication have been checked for errors and accuracy as much as possible. Any errors and omissions will be corrected in future publications. Each locality listed herein is followed by a number in square brackets. This number is the County, District or Regional Municipality as shown in Figures 1 & 2, e.g. Hearst [53] means Hearst (Cochrane District). Note: Changes which have occurred in the county names or county amalgamations are incorporated into this publication and are as follows: WENTWORTH [11] is changed to HAMILTON-WENTWORTH [11] CARLETON [42] is changed to OTTAWA-CARLETON [42] NORFOLK [4] and HALDIMAND [5] are combined into HALDIMAND-NORFOLK [4] WELLAND [6] and LINCOLN [12] are combined into NIAGARA [6] LEEDS [27] and GRENVILLE [28] are combined into LEEDS AND GRENVILLE [27] DUNDAS [29], STORMONT [30] and GLENGARRY [31] are combined into STORMONT, DUNDAS AND GLENGARRY [29] RUSSELL [43] and PRESCOTT [44] are combined into PRESCOTT AND RUSSELL [43] Boundary changes are as follows: ONTARIO (N of Gamebridge) added to SIMCOE; ONTARIO (S of Gamebridge) added to DURHAM (ONTARIO disappears); DURHAM (E part incl. Janetville, Pontypool & Bethany) added to VICTORIA; DURHAM (E part incl. Mt. Pleasant, Cavan, Millbrook & S. Monaghan) added to PETERBOROUGH); DURHAM (E part incl. Campbellcroft, Welcome & Port Hope) added to NORTHUMBERLAND. These changes will affect previous records up to and including "The Ontario Butterfly Atlas" (Holmes, Hess, Hanks and Tasker, 1992), and numbers from those records should be noted in any citation with the necessary emendations. Where the date given is followed by a number in brackets, this represents the number of specimens encountered, i.e. (3). Also note that M = male, F = female, C = collected, R = released and S = sighting. Ifthere are any errors and/or omissions or suggestions please advise: Alan 1. Hanks, 34 Seaton Drive, Aurora, Ontario L4G 2K1 - (416) 727-6993 Back issues ofsome T.E.A. publications and memberships are available from the Treasurer ofthe T.E.A., Alan 1. Hanks (address above). ******************* 2 2. 1992 Weather (from Climatic Perspectives by Environment Canada) by Q.F. Hess. The weather in 1992 in Ontario was generally cool, wet and cloudy. It did not seem to be a good year for Lepidopterists! March - Winter continued with cold temperatures dominating and it was the coldest March in eight years. It was also dry throughout the north and in areas west of Lake Ontario to London. But extreme southeastern and south-western Ontario were slightly wetter than normal. April - This was a wet, stormy, cold and sunless month. Province-wide temperatures were 1 to 2 C colder than normal and it was the coldest April since 1989 at most locations. At Sault Ste. Marie it was the coldest April since 1978 while both Thunder Bay and Hamilton were the coldest since 1982. Precipitation was heavy over Ontario except for a region east of Georgian bay north to Temiskaming including the Ottawa valley. It was the wettest April ever recorded at St. Catherines. May - Generally it was a pleasant sunny month with near normal temperatures and close to normal precipitation. However, very warm and record cold was mixed in. The final 10 days ofthe month seemed more to herald winter than approaching summer. Seven cm of snow fell in Sudbury where it was the coldest May since 1961. June - This was a cold month averaging 2 deg. colder than normal province-wide. In the London ­ Windsor area it was the coldest June since 1980 and in Moosonee the coldest since 1978. On the morning ofJune 22nd the province was hit by a very late ground frost with damage to plants in areas as far south as Woodstock. The cool temperatures were accompanied by dry weather across most of Ontario except the extreme Northwest. For Petawawa this was the driest June ever recorded. July - This was the coldest July in Toronto in 102 years. It was also wet; London had the wettest July since 1932. It was also cloudy and sunshine was reduced 100 hours over normal, so it was the cloudiest July on record. Temperatures were 2 to 4 degrees below average everywhere in the province. Ontario did not reach an afternoon high of30 C or more during the whole month, which has never happened before. August - This was a cool, wet month. The whole June to August period was the coolest since 1927. Temperatures averaged 1 to 2 degrees below normal in the north and 2 to 3 degrees below average in the south. London, Hamilton and Sarnia endured generally the coldest August on record. However, the final week of August had hot, hazy weather over most of the province. Rainfall was again abundant across Ontario with 159 mm at Timmins leading the way. Most localities had 100 to 155 mm ofrain compared to the average 70 to 90 mm. August was also cloudier than normal. September - This month did not compensate for Ontario's most miserable summer of the century. However, near normal temperatures and sunshine provided a small consolation.
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  • CHECKLIST of WISCONSIN MOTHS (Superfamilies Mimallonoidea, Drepanoidea, Lasiocampoidea, Bombycoidea, Geometroidea, and Noctuoidea)

    CHECKLIST of WISCONSIN MOTHS (Superfamilies Mimallonoidea, Drepanoidea, Lasiocampoidea, Bombycoidea, Geometroidea, and Noctuoidea)

    WISCONSIN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY SPECIAL PUBLICATION No. 6 JUNE 2018 CHECKLIST OF WISCONSIN MOTHS (Superfamilies Mimallonoidea, Drepanoidea, Lasiocampoidea, Bombycoidea, Geometroidea, and Noctuoidea) Leslie A. Ferge,1 George J. Balogh2 and Kyle E. Johnson3 ABSTRACT A total of 1284 species representing the thirteen families comprising the present checklist have been documented in Wisconsin, including 293 species of Geometridae, 252 species of Erebidae and 584 species of Noctuidae. Distributions are summarized using the six major natural divisions of Wisconsin; adult flight periods and statuses within the state are also reported. Examples of Wisconsin’s diverse native habitat types in each of the natural divisions have been systematically inventoried, and species associated with specialized habitats such as peatland, prairie, barrens and dunes are listed. INTRODUCTION This list is an updated version of the Wisconsin moth checklist by Ferge & Balogh (2000). A considerable amount of new information from has been accumulated in the 18 years since that initial publication. Over sixty species have been added, bringing the total to 1284 in the thirteen families comprising this checklist. These families are estimated to comprise approximately one-half of the state’s total moth fauna. Historical records of Wisconsin moths are relatively meager. Checklists including Wisconsin moths were compiled by Hoy (1883), Rauterberg (1900), Fernekes (1906) and Muttkowski (1907). Hoy's list was restricted to Racine County, the others to Milwaukee County. Records from these publications are of historical interest, but unfortunately few verifiable voucher specimens exist. Unverifiable identifications and minimal label data associated with older museum specimens limit the usefulness of this information. Covell (1970) compiled records of 222 Geometridae species, based on his examination of specimens representing at least 30 counties.