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EDITH'S COPPER, EDITHA (LYCAENIDAE), CONFIRMED FOR CANADA

Additional key words: Thomas Baird, Albelta.

The status of Edith's Copper, Lycaena editha was not pinned fresh. Donald Mackie made extensive (Mead), in Canada has been a mattcr of conjecture for Lepidoptera collections, primarily from the Edmonton some time, particularly in Alberta. Bowman (19.34, region, in the early to mid-1920's, and the specimen 19.51) included this species in his annotated lists of Al­ was likely either sent or given to him by Baird. Thomas berta Lepidoptera, giving High River as the locality Baird came to High River from Woodstock, Ontario in without further comment. This represented the only about 1896, and worked there for many years as a cob­ known Canadian record of Edith's Copper; its known bler. He was an ardent and versatile collector of all range is restricted to the western US, from California groups of , though he appears to have been par­ to Montana eastward to Wyoming and Colorado (Scott ticularly partial to Diptera. F. H. W. Dod, in his series 1\:186). Subsequent works (e.g., Ferris & Brown 1981, of "Further notes on Alberta Lepidoptera" (Dod 1914, Scott 1986) also indicated this species as part ofthe Al­ 191.5a, b) made frequent reference to Baird's collec­ berta fauna, presumably based on Bowman's list. Bird tions. Among the moths that Baird collected, espe­ et al. (199.5) were unable to authenticate this record cially at light, were a number of taxa that were new to and rejected it. Layberry et al. (1998) also treated this science. as a dubious record, and did not include L. editha as The precise location where the High River speci­ part of the Canadian fauna. men was collected is impossible to determine, but While curating the butterflies in the University of there is no reason to believe it was not collected in the Alberta Strickland Museum collection in 2001, BCS general vicinity of thc town of High River (.50°.35'N, discovered the putative High River specimen in a sep­ 113°.52'W). Suitable Canadian Zone valley bottom wet arate teaching collection, where it had gone unnoticed meadow habitat that L. editha is reported to frequent these many years. It is a male specimen, missing the (Scott 1986) occurs in the Rocky Mountain foothills left antenna but othclWise in excellent condition, with west of High River, and it is entirely possible that the a label reading "High River, Alta / Baird" (Fig. 1). specimen originated there. Other butterfly species col­ "High Rivcr" and "Baird" are handwritten on a printed lected by Baird and labeled as "High River" are re­ Donald Mackie label, and "Edmonton" and "D. stricted to montane habitats rather-than the prairie Mackie" are crossed out (Fig. 1). Comparison of the habitat found at High River, suggesting Baird named handwriting to other Donald Mackie labels shows that his collection localities to the nearest major settle­ the specimen was labelled and likely pinned by Mackie ment, as did many early collectors. after he received the unpinned specimen from Baird. Although it is possible that this specimen is misla­ A small amount of glue is visible on the ventral thorax beled, there is no evidence to suggest this. Further­ and on the pin, further suggesting that the specimen more, there are no accounts of, or specimens 250 JOURNAL OF THE LEPIDOPTERISTS' SOCIETY

both the Alberta and Canadian butterfly faunal treat­ ments.

Charley Bird kindly provided biographical information on Thomas Baird. We thank Norbert Kondla for confirming the speci­ men identification, and Danny Shpeley and Felix Sperling of the University of Alberta Stricldand Entomology Museum for providing access to the specimen collections. Page charges for this note were funded by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada grant to F.A.H. Sperling.

LITERATURE CITED BIRD , C. D., G. J. HILCHIE, N. C. KONDLA , E. M. PIKE & F. A. SP ERLING. 1995. Alherta hutterflies. Provincial M uscum Al­ berta, Edmonton. 349 pp. BOWMA N, K. 1934. Annotated checklist of the macrolepidoptera of Albelta, additions and corrections. Canad. Entomol. 66:131- 132. BOWMAN, K. 1951. An annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Alberta. Can. J. Zoo!. 29:121-165. DOD . F. H. W 1914. Further notes on Alherb Lepidopterrr Canad. Entomol. 46:93-403. --- . 1915a. Further notes on Alberta Lepidoptera, with de­ scription of a new species. Canad. Entomo1. 47:1- 8, 3:3-42. FIG. l. Specimen representing the only cornfirmed Canadian - --. 191.5b. FUlther notes on Alberta Lepidoptera. Carla(1. En­ record of Lycaena editha (Mead) (ventral view). tomo1. 47:122-134. FERRIS, C. D. & F. M. BROWN. 1981. Butterflies of the Roeky collected by, either Baird or Mackie to suggest they Mountain statcs. University ofOkJahoma Press, Norman, Okla­ homa. 442 pp. collected in the western u.s. (within the main range of LAYB!o:HKY, R. A., P. W. HALL & j. D. LAFONTAINE. 1998. The hut­ editha) or exchanged specimens with other collectors. terflies of Canada. University of Toronto Press. 280 pp. SCOTT, J. A. 1986. The butterflies of North America: a natural his­ Lycaena editha is present in Glacier Co., Montana tOt)' and field guide. Stanford University Press, Stanford. ,583 pp. just south of Waterton National Park (Ferris & Brown 1981) and attempts to locate populations of this GARY G. ANWEILER AND B. CHRISTIAN SCHMIDT, species in the province should be concentrated in the Strickland Entomological Museum, Dept. of Biological Waterton to Crowsnest area (Bird et al. 199.5) in July Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta and August, during L. editha's flight period (Scott T6G 2E9, Canada. 1986). Since there is no evidence to suggest that this specimen was not collected in the vicinity of High Received for publication 26 November 2002; revised (lnd accepted River, Alberta, Edith's Copper should be added to 29 April 2003.