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Nymphalidae) Cember 1950, Is “To Promote Internationally Mark H Volume 52, Number 1 Spring 2010 Inside: An Overlooked 18th Century List of North American Lepidoptera Conservation Matters: Are Butterflies in Trouble? Satyrine Wing Patterns: A Complex Story Digital Collecting: Stalking the Prey for the Prize Shot A Striking Aberration of Chioides albofasciatus in Texas Caterpillars, Ants and Populuca Indians 2010 Meeting Info Election Results Membership Update, Metamorphosis, Marketplace… …and more! Contents An Overlooked 18th Century List of North American Lepidoptera Volume 52, Number 1 John V. Calhoun. ................................................................................................ 3 Spring 2010 Natural and Sexual Selection in Satyrine Wing Patterns: The Lepidopterists’ Society is a non-profit A Complex Story educational and scientific organization. The Andrei Sourakov ............................................................................................... 6 object of the Society, which was formed in Misumenops bellulus (Araneae: Thomisidae) A Predator of Larval Anaea May 1947 and formally constituted in De- troglodyta floridalis (Nymphalidae) cember 1950, is “to promote internationally Mark H. Salvato and Holly L. Salvato. ............................................................ 6 the science of lepidopterology in all its A Striking Aberration of Chioides albofasciatus (Hewitson, 1867) branches; to further the scientifically sound (Hesperiidae: Eudaminae) From South Texas. and progressive study of Lepidoptera, to is- Charles Bordelon and Ed Knudson. ............................................................... 8 sue periodicals and other publications on Conservation Matters: Are Butterflies in Trouble? If So, Why? Lepidoptera; to facilitate the exchange of Arthur M. Shapiro. .......................................................................................... 10 specimens and ideas by both the professional Lepidopterists’ Society Election Results. .................................................. 15 worker and the amateur in the field; to com- pile and distribute information to other or- 2010 Meeting of the Lepidopterists’ Society Registration Forms. 21-24 ganizations and individuals for purposes of Membership Update and Metamorphosis education and conservation and appreciation Julian Donahue . ........................................................................................ 26, 27 of Lepidoptera; and to secure cooperation in A Standalone Weatherproof Low Cost Camera System to Study all measures” directed towards these aims. Nocturnal Behavior Continiously for Extended Periods (Article II, Constitution of The Lepidopter- Christian Salcedo. ........................................................................................... 28 ists’ Society.) Digital Collecting: Stalking the Prey to Get the Prize The News of the Lepidopterists’ Society Kim Garwood. .................................................................................................. 30 (ISSN 0091-1348) is published quarterly by The Marketplace. .......................................................................................... 32,33 The Lepidopterists’ Society, c/o Los Angeles Caterpillars, Ants and Populuca Indians: An Adventure in Remote County Museum of Natural History, 900 Ex- Mexico position Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90007-4057, Gary Noel Ross. ............................................................................................... 34 USA., and includes one or two supplements Executive Council/Season Summary Zone Coordinators. .............42, 43 each year. The Season Summary is pub- lished every year as Supplement S1 and is Issue Date: April 15, 2010 ISSN 0091-1348 mailed with issue 1 of the News. In even num- bered years a complete Membership Direc- tory is published as Supplement S2 and is mailed with issue 4 of that volume of the News. Please see the inside back cover for in- structions regarding subscriptions, submis- sions to, and deadline dates for, the News. Correction: Periodicals Postage paid at Los Angeles, CA The moth reported as Eustrotia fausta Druce in the News of the Lepidopterists’ and at additional mailing office (Lawrence, Society 51(3):93-94 is a female of a pyralid in the genus Tosale. It is tentatively KS). placed as Tosale similaris Barnes & Benjamin, which was described, but not POSTMASTER: Please send address illustrated, from Reddington, Arizona (Contributions to the Natural History of changes to News of the Lepidopterists’ Lepidoptera in North America Vol. 5(3):191). The site at which the moth was Society, c/o Los Angeles County Museum collected is close to Reddington Pass. I was misled by an illustration in Godman of Natural History, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los & Salvin, Biologia Centrali-Americana, and my thanks to Ed Knudson for Angeles, CA 90007-4057. questioning the original identification and supplying follow-up information. — Copyright © 2010 by The Lepidopteris ts’ Cliff Ferris Society. All rights reserved. The statements of contributors do not necessarily represent Front Cover: the views of the Society or the editor and the Urbanus chalco,Fazenda Rancho Grande, Rondonia, Brazil on Nov 17, 2006. Society does not warrant or endorse prod- Photo by Kim Garwood. ucts or services of advertisers. Spring 2010 News of the Lepidopterists’ Society An Overlooked 18th Century List of North American Lepidoptera John V. Calhoun 977 Wicks Dr. Palm Harbor, FL 34684 [email protected] Published in 1860, the Catalogue of the a dedicated scientist, he was generally to 1751 Kalm traveled through Described Lepidoptera of North regarded as surly and intemperate. portions of Delaware (then part of America by the American entomologist While residing in England, he was Pennsylvania), New Jersey, New York, John G. Morris has long been particularly interested in entomology. Pennsylvania, and Quebec to procure recognized as the first compendium of His insect collection in 1769 contained natural history specimens, especially North American Lepidoptera. While more than 1000 specimens. Dru Drury plants (Kalm 1753-1761, Forster 1770). searching historical literature, I of London received from Forster many Forster considered his catalogues of the recently discovered a list of North species of Coleoptera that were collected North American fauna and flora as “a American Lepidoptera that was issued during Cook’s second voyage (Drury’s kind of appendix” to his translation of nearly a century before Morris (1860). collection notebooks, Hope Library of Kalm’s journals and suggested that Published in 1771 by the German Entomology, Oxford University). After these works be bound together (Forster naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster, his death, Forster’s natural history 1771b). Because of these and other this early list was compiled when the collections were sold by his widow, thus publications that he authored during systematic works of Carl Linnaeus few of his insects have survived (Hoare the 1770s, Forster was considered to be represented the primary source of 1976, Day & Fitton 1977). Drury’s an authority on North American scientific names. Countless New World collection was dispersed at auction in natural history. Though scarce, taxa had yet to be named by the 1805 and the fate of Forster’s specimens Forster’s original Catalogue of Animals European naturalists Dru Drury, Pieter is unknown. is available for viewing on the Internet Cramer, Johann C. Fabricius, James E. In 1770, Forster published the first (e.g. Biodiversity Heritage Library, Smith, and Jacob Hübner. Forster’s list English entomological work to apply Google Books, Göttinger Digitalisier- is probably the first attempt to the scientific names of Linnaeus. The ungszentrum [Göttengen Digitalization document the described Lepidoptera of following year, Forster produced a small Center], and Internet Archive). This North America. book entitled, A Catalogue of the publication was reissued by the Willoughby Society (Sclater 1882), but Hoare (1976) published a very detailed Animals of North America (Forster it too is now rare. biography of J. R. Forster’s life and 1771a), which listed the region’s work. Of partial Scottish descent, mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, Forster (1771a) included 50 species of Forster (Fig. 1) was born in 1729 in arachnids, and crustaceans. Forster “Papilionaceous Insects;” 29 butterflies Polish Prussia. In 1766 he emigrated wrote, “I offer this small catalogue and 21 moths. The brevity of his list from Russia to England, where he merely as an essay towards forming a reveals a rudimentary understanding of briefly worked as a tutor of languages more compleat Natural History of that the New World fauna. For insects, and natural history at the distinguished extensive continent. To instruct Forster relied primarily on the Dissenters’ Academy in Warrington. Collectors, I have added to this list authority of Linnaeus, who described While in England, he anglicized his some short directions for the best taxa from “America septentrionali,” given name to John. Forster was method of preserving and transporting “America boreali,” and “America.” greatly influenced by the systematic the various subjects of Natural Based on illustrations by Merian works of Linnaeus, declaring in 1768, History.” Forster also published a (1705), Linnaeus also noted that some “Although I am not a pupil of Linnaeus, companion volume on the plants of of his new species fed on “Americes” however I know the method, and North America (Forster 1771b). He [American] plants. Because Linnaeus reckon myself to be
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