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TORONTO ENTOMOLOGISTS ASSOCIATION Publication # 28 - 96 Butterflies of Ontario & Summaries of Lepidoptera Encountered in Ontario in 1995 ISBN #: 0-921631-16-2 . BUTTERFLIES OF ONTARIO & SUMMARIES OF LEPIDOPTERA ENCOUNTERED IN ONTARIO IN 1995 COMPILED BY ALAN J. HANKS PRODUCTION BY ALAN J. HANKS APRIL 1996 CONTENTS PAGE 1. INTRODUCTION 1 2. WEATHER DURING THE 1995 SEASON 5 3. CORRECTIONS TO PREVIOUS T.E.A. SUMMARIES 6 & 62 4. SPECIAL NOTES ON ONTARIO LEPIDOPTERA 6 4.1 Swarms ofEuropean Skippers - Tim Sabo 6 4.2 Rearing Notes for Northumberland County - Dr. W.J.D. Eberlie 8 4.3 The Eastern Tailed Blue (Everes comyntas) in the Regional Municipality ofOttawa-Carleton - Jeffrey P. Crolla 10 4.4 The Pepper and Salt Skipper (Amblyscirtes hegon) in the Regional Municipality ofOttawa-Carleton - Jeffrey P. Crolla 11 4.5 The Spring Azure Complex - Ross A. Layberry 12 4.6 A Large Yellow Underwing (Noctua pronuba) at Thunder Bay - Dr. N.G. Escott 15 5. GENERAL SUMMARY - Alan 1. Hanks 16 6. 1995 SUMMARY OF ONTARIO BUTTERFLIES compiled by Alan 1. Hanks 17 Hesperiidae 17 Papilionidae 28 Pieridae 31 Lycaenidae 37 Libytheidae 45 Nymphalidae 46 Apaturidae 57 SMyridae 58 Danaidae 61 7. SELECTED REPORTS OF MOTHS IN ONTARIO, 1995 compiled by Dr. Duncan Robertson 63 8. CONCISE CYCLICAL SUMMARY OF MOTHS IN ONTARIO compiled by Dr. Duncan Robertson 77 9. PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS 95 ******************** 1. INTRODUCTION This is Publication # 28-96 of the Toronto Entomologists' Association. Data is selected from reports for 1995 (or as otherwise indicated) for the Province ofOntario (Canada) from contributors listed below: Note: TEA members names are in bold. Michael Blagdurn MB Michigan MichaelFC. ~atheson ~ Wheatley Dr. KB. Bolte FCBB Agriculture Canada Dr. Tim L. ~cCabe TM New York State R.L. Bowles RLB Orillia ~useum, Albany George Bryant GB Willowdale Helen ~cEachem ~ Enid Bull EB Leamington Paul McGaw P~ Scarborough Neil Carter NC Dr.W.D. & Irene McDveenWIM Acton FCerri-Lyn Case FCC FCevin A. ~cLaughlin }(AM Hamilton David Cattrall DC Ethan 1. ~eleg EJM Leamington Geoff Cattrall GC David 1. Milsom DJM Toronto B. Michael Chomyshyn B~C FCingsville Dr. John K. Morton JKM U. ofWaterloo Barbara N. Charlton BNC Waterloo Steven T. Pike STP Windsor R. Cameron Cochrane RCC Castleton Dr. ~ogens C. Nielsen ~CN Michigan State U. Canadian National ColI. CNC East Lansing Jeffrey P. Crolla JPC Ottawa Harold Ollerenshaw HO Huntsville Robert H. Curry RHC Ancaster Joan Ollerenshaw JO Huntsville P.T. Dang PTD Agriculture Canada Michael & Nancy Robert Z. Dobos RZD Waterloo van der Poorten ~ Toronto Jason J. Dombrowskie JID Round Lake Centre Dr Eric Quinter EQ Am. ~us. Natural Dan Dufour DO Windsor History, NY Dr. W.J.D. Eberlie WIDE Cobourg Suzanne Reid SR FCingston Wm.M.M. Edmonds WE Toronto Glenn Richardson GR Nicholas G. Escott NGE Thunder Bay Chris Rickard CR Mississauga Russell M. Eynon ~ England Alfred H. Rider AR Forest James N. Flynn JNF Wheatley Dr. Duncan Robertson DR FCingston Lorraine H. Foott LHF FCingsville Paul A. Rose PAR Hamilton June~. Gordon JMG Wheatley Alan 1. Ryff AJR St. Clair, MI Anne Hanft AH Detroit, MI Tim Sabo TS Brampton Sol Hanft SH Detroit, Ml Dr. Dale F. Schweitzer DFS Port Norris, NJ ~att T. Heindel ~ Irvine, CA FCeith Sealy FCS Mississauga Quimby F. Hess QFH North York Leola Sealy LS Mississauga G. Tom Hince GTH Leamington Al Simclair AS Uffington A.M. Holmes ~ Toronto Angela Skevington AS Grand Bend Tom Toyomi Ikeda TTl Toronto Jeff Skevington JS Grand Bend James Kamstra J}C Port Perry Richard Skevington RS Grand Bend FCim FCathan }C}C Ken Stead FCS Brantford Bill FCilbum BFC John M. Swales JMS Ann Arbor, Ml Carol FCopchuk CFC Windsor Lloyd Taman LT ~tachewan Brenda Kulon BFC Bright's Grove Gordon Vogg GV Presqu'ile P.P. Dr. 1. Donald Lafontaine IDL Agriculture Canada Robert L. Waldhuber RLW Stoney Creek William G. Lamond WGL Brantford 1. Michael West JMW FCirkland, WA Dr. Bernard Landry BerL Agriculture Canada Diane F. West DFW FCirkland, WA Geoffrey L. Larson JLL La Salle John C. Wilson JCW Bakersfield, CA Ross A. Layberry RAL Ottawa Alan Wormington AW Leamington Neb Lecic NL Toronto Bob Yukich BY Toronto Dennis W Lewington OWL Stoney Creek Kirk Zufelt FCZ Hamilton Gwen ~. Lewington Gill Stoney Creek --------_ .. _----------------------------- 1 Note: P.P. = Provincial Park; C.A. = Conservation Area; BC = Lambton Co. Butterfly Count; TEA = members field trip; HRCA = Halton Region Conservation Authority 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 28 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 1995. Please note that Section 3 in each ofthese publications addresses the corrections required to previous TE.A. Occasional Publications. 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 "Supplement 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). In addition, recent information on a number of species has necessitated some changes or additions to the nomenclature. These are noted in the listings. 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 of the 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 were incorporated into publication # 25-93 (1992 Summary). These changes will have affected 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 J. Hanks, 34 Seaton Drive, Aurora, Ontario L4G 2Kl - (905) 727-6993 Back issues ofsome TE.A. publications and memberships are available from the Treasurer ofthe TE.A., Alan J. Hanks (address above). ******************** 2 76' o 20 40 GO WI. ... b 20 ' 40 60 80 ;00 klft ~ 44' LAKE ONTARIO LARC CRIC 42' 80' 7r 76' Oapan"'.m 01 GItOU'llptlv. '1'0'11, Uf'll ....flil1'1'. 11117 FIGURE 1. Counties and Districts of southern Ontario. The dotted line indicates the approx. southern and eastern limits ofthe Canadian Shield in Ontario. 1 ESSEX 18 PEEL 34 DUFFERIN 2 KENT 19 YORK. 35 SIMCOE 3 ELGIN 21 DURHAM 36 VICTORIA 4 HALDIMAND- 22 NORTIIUMBERLAND 37 PETERBOROUGH NORFOLK 23 PRINCE EDWARD 38 MUSKOKA 6 NIAGARA 24 HASTINGS 39 HALffiURTON 7 LAMBTON 25 LENNOX AND 40 RENFREW 8 MIDDLESEX ADDINGTON 41 LANARK. 9 OXFORD 26 FRONTENAC 42 OTTAWA· 10 BRANT 27 LEEDS AND CARLETON 11 HAMILTON- GRENVILLE 43 PRESCOTT AND WENTWORTH 29 STORMONT, RUSSELL 13 HURON DUNDAS AND 45 MANITOULIN 14 PERTH GLENGARRY 46 PARRY SOUND 15 WATERLOO 32 BRUCE 47 NIPISSING 16 WELLINGTON 33 GREY 48 ALGOMA 17 HALTON 49 SUDBURY Note: See page 2 for the changes affecting Counties, Regional Municipalities etc. which have been embodied in the above map. 3 .s· .,. ,/ 0' ./ '.. ./ ./ o'I'Q • ./ " ~9 .. ,... /" ...- ..... : I .I I 54 ... I , Mo... , ~:,.. ;I J,~ I so' .s· .... o 10 100 lilt I I i! I o too toO"'" .~ 'S- .s· O""t. of Geogfaphy. YOfk University I lSn FIGURE 2. Districts ofnorthern Ontario. The line A-B represents the approximate northern limits ofthe Carolinian Zone in Ontario (see Soper 1954, 1962). Line C-D approximates the 40 degree F mean daily temperature for the year isotherm, and has been adopted here as the northern limit ofsouthern Ontario. 48 ALGOMA 52 THUNDER BAY 49 SUDBURY 53 COCHRANE 50 TIMISKAMING 54 KENORA 51 RAINY RIVER ******************** 4 2. 1995 WEATHER (compiled from computer data) The national average temperature for 1995 (January through December), based on preliminary data, was 0.7 degree above the long-term mean. The above-average annual temperature is a result of seasonal means that were considerably above-average through the winter (+1.7 Celsius degrees), spring (+1.1 degrees) and summer (+0.8 degree); and close to average for the autumn (+0.1 degree). Across Canada, as elsewhere in the hemisphere, 1995 was a year riddled with climatic extremes including excessive summer heat and humidity in central and eastern regions; and record December cold and heavy snowfalls at many locations across the country. In spite ofthese wild climatic fluctuations, 1995 ranked as only the 14th warmest for Canada since national temperature records began in 1895.
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    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.
  • An Annotated List of the Lepidoptera of Alberta, Canada

    An Annotated List of the Lepidoptera of Alberta, Canada

    A peer-reviewed open-access journal ZooKeys 38: 1–549 (2010) Annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Alberta, Canada 1 doi: 10.3897/zookeys.38.383 MONOGRAPH www.pensoftonline.net/zookeys Launched to accelerate biodiversity research An annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Alberta, Canada Gregory R. Pohl1, Gary G. Anweiler2, B. Christian Schmidt3, Norbert G. Kondla4 1 Editor-in-chief, co-author of introduction, and author of micromoths portions. Natural Resources Canada, Northern Forestry Centre, 5320 - 122 St., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6H 3S5 2 Co-author of macromoths portions. University of Alberta, E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum, Department of Biological Sciences, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E3 3 Co-author of introduction and macromoths portions. Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, K.W. Neatby Bldg., 960 Carling Ave., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C6 4 Author of butterfl ies portions. 242-6220 – 17 Ave. SE, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2A 0W6 Corresponding authors: Gregory R. Pohl ([email protected]), Gary G. Anweiler ([email protected]), B. Christian Schmidt ([email protected]), Norbert G. Kondla ([email protected]) Academic editor: Donald Lafontaine | Received 11 January 2010 | Accepted 7 February 2010 | Published 5 March 2010 Citation: Pohl GR, Anweiler GG, Schmidt BC, Kondla NG (2010) An annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Alberta, Canada. ZooKeys 38: 1–549. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.38.383 Abstract Th is checklist documents the 2367 Lepidoptera species reported to occur in the province of Alberta, Can- ada, based on examination of the major public insect collections in Alberta and the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes.