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Download Articles QL 541 J866 ENT Volume 49 2017 Final issue ISSN 0022 4324 (PRINT) 2156 5457 (ONLINE) THE LEPIDOPTERA RESEARCH FOUNDATION The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera www.lepidopteraresearchfoundation.org ISSN 0022 4324 (print) 2156 5457 (online) Published by: The Lepidoptera Research Foundation, Inc. 9620 Fleather Road Beverly Flills, California 90210-1757 TEL (310) 274 1052 E-mail: Editorial: [email protected] Technical: [email protected] Founder: William Hovanitz (1915-1977) Editoriai. Staff: Konrad Fiedler, Llniversity of Vienna, Editor [email protected] Nancy R. Vannucci, Infbnnation Manager [email protected] Associate Editors: Annette Aiello, Smithsonian Institution [email protected] Joaquin Baixeras, Universitat de Valencia [email protected] Marcelo Duarte, Universidade de Sao Paulo [email protected] Klaus Fischer, Lhiiversity of Greifswald [email protected] Krushnamegh Kunte, Natl. Center for Biol. Sci, India [email protected] Gerardo Lamas, Lhiiversidad Mayor de San Marcos [email protected] Rudi Mattoni [email protected] Soren Nylin, Stockholm Lhiiversity [email protected] Naomi Pierce, Harvard Lhiiversity [email protected] Robert Robbins, Smithsonian Instittition [email protected] Daniel Rubinoff, Lhiiversity of Hawaii [email protected] Jo.sef Settele, Helmholtz Cntr. for Environ. Research-UFZ [email protected] Arthur M. Shapiro, Llniversity of California - Davis [email protected] Felix Sperling, University of Alberta [email protected] Niklas Wahlberg, Lhiiversity of Turku [email protected] Shell Horn Yen, National Sun Yat-Sen Lhiiversity [email protected] STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT n IE JOURNAL OF RESEARCH ON THE LEPIDOPTERA was published once a year by THE LEPIDOPTERA RESEARCH FOL^NDATION, INC. Publication and business ofhces are located at the Beverly Hills, California address given above. The Foundation is a non-proht organization incorporated in the State of California in 1965. The president is Rudolf H. T. Mattoni, the vice-president is Jeremiah George, the secretary-treasurer is Leona Mattoni. The board of directors (2005-) is comprised of Konrad Fiedler, Dan Rubinoff, Jeremiah George, and Rudolf H. T. Mattoni. The Journal Volume 49: 1-20 of Research on the Lepidoptera ISSN 0022-4324 (print) THE LEPIDOPTERA RESEARCH FOUNDATION. 15 March 2016 ISSN 2156-5457 (oNXINE) A new species of Oeneis from Alaska, United States, with notes on the Oeneis chryxus complex (Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae; Satyrinae) Andrew D. Warren’, Shinichi Nakahara’, Vladimir A. Lukhtanov'”, Kathryn M. Daly', Clifford D. Ferris'’, Nick V. Grishin", Martin Cesanek" and Jonathan P. Peeham" ‘McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, LIniversity of Florida, 3215 Hull Rd., UF Cultural Plaza, PO Box 112710, Gainesville, Florida, 32611-2710 USA ^Department of Karyosystematics, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia 'Department of Entomology, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab 7 9, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia ‘Department of Entomology, University of Alaska Museum, 907 Yukon Dr., Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-6960 USA “5405 Bill Nye Ave., R.R. 3, Laramie, WY 82070 USA; Research Associate, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity “Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Departments of Biophysics and Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, Texas 75390-9050 USA 'Bodrocka 30, 821 07 Bratislava, Slovakia "Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Box 353010, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-3010 USA hespmnidea@yaho().com, snak([email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], zaj>[email protected] Abstract. Oeneis tanana A. Warren & Nakahara is described from the Tanana River Basin in southeastern Alaska, USA. This new taxon belongs to the /wcgroupof Oewm Hubner, [1819] and is apparently closest to O. chryxus (E. Doubleday, [1849]) by moiphology, including its larger size and similarity of the female genitalia. In wing patterns and CO/mitochondrial DNA barcode sequences, it is reminiscent of O. bore (Esper, 1789). A review of O. chryxus subspecies suggest that some may be better treated as species-level taxa. Evolutionary scenarios within the chryxus complex of taxa are discussed. While we hypothesize that O. tanana is best considered a species-level taxon, we have not identified any single character that unambiguously separates it from O. chryxus. Further study is needed to elucidate the species- or subspecies-level status of O. tanana, and to determine if it may have evolved through hybridization between O. chryxus and O. bore. Key words: Beringia, butterflies, ciyptic species, hybrid species, Nearctic, speciation, taxonomy, Yukon Territory. Introduction 1982). While the nomenclature of Nearctic members of Oeneis can be considered relatively stable {e.g., Butterflies of the genus OramHubner, [1819] are dos Passos 1961, 1964; Miller & Brown 1981; Ferris Holarctic in distribution, and occupy a wide range of 1989; Pelham 2008, 2015), new taxa continue to be habitat types, including montane and boreal forests, described (Troubridge et al. 1982; Troubridge & taiga, grasslands and steppe, alpine and arctic tundra, Parshall 1988; Guppy 8c Shepard 2001; Scott 2006; with several species occurring in sparsely vegetated, Holland 2010), and some unresolved taxonomic issues rocky terrain {e.g., Ferris 1980; Troubridge et al. remain {e.g., Hassler & Feil 2002). However, a large number of unresolved taxonomic questions persist among the much richer fauna of Palaearctic Oeneis, Received: 21 December 2015 where species-level boundaries in some groups remain AccefUed: 18January 2016 poorly defined {e.g, Murayama 1973; Lukhtanov 1983; Korshunov 8c Gorbunov 1995; Bogdanov et al. Copyright: This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 1997; Gorbunov 2001; Korshunov 2002; Korshunov Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To & Nikolaev 2003; Korb 2005; Chernov & Tatarinov view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/ 2006). Progress in improving our knowledge of licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, relationships in Oeneis is nonetheless being made; USA. a recent molecular study (Kleckova et al. 2015) has 2 J. Res.Lepid. helped resolve many of the issues related to the (currently housed at the University of Alaska composition of species groups in the genus, a Museum, Fairbanks) by ADW and KMD in 2015 process initiated over 120 years ago. revealed a large number of additional specimens Elwes & Edwards (1893) were the first to investigate from multiple localities bordering the Tanana River the morphology of the male genitalia of Oeneis. They in southeastern Alaska. Further searches revealed noted that O. chryxus (E. Doubleday, [1849]), O. alberta many additional specimens in private collections, Elwes, 1893, O. bore (Esper, 1789) and O. taygeteGeyer, especially those of CDF and Jack Harry, the latter [1830] (now often considered conspecific with O. bore) recently donated to the McGuire Center. all shared the presence of a similar “tooth” on the In an effort to determine the taxonomic status valvae, not found in other Oeneis species. Dos Passos of these Alaskan specimens, genitalia of males and (1949) referred to Nearctic taxa with this character females were compared to those of O. chryxus from as members of the “taygete group.” Based on this Yukon Territory and O. herefrom Alaska. In addition, character, Gross (1970) united O. bore, O. taygete, O. legs were sampled from ail North American taxa in nevadensis (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1867), O. macounii the bore group (except O. c. socorro) by VL in 2011 (W. H. Edwards, 1885), O. chryxus, O. ivallda (Mead, and NVG in 2015, from which sequence data from 1878), and O. albertaunder “Gruppe C” in his review of the “barcode” region of CO/were obtained. Herein the genus; this group of taxa was subsequently called we present the results of these studies, and describe the “bore group” by Lukhtanov (1984), Gorbunov the distinctive Alaskan Oeneis as a new species, yet (2001), Lukhtanov & Eitschberger (2001), Pelham note that further elucidation of its taxonomic status (2008, 2015) and Kleckova et al. (2015). With the is needed (see Discussion). exception of various Palaearctic taxa associated with O. bore, O. pansa Cristoph, 1893 and O. ammon Elwes, Materials and methods 1899 {e.g, Korb 1998; Korshunov 2002; Korshunov & Nikolaev 2003; Tsvetkov 2006; Yakovlev 2011), the bore Specimens examined are deposited in the group is Nearctic in distribution. following collections: private collection of Clifford The Oeneis ^:/^r3)xm complex currently includes nine D. Ferris, Laramie, Wyoming, USA (CDF); Private taxa, which are usually considered to be subspecies collection of Jim P. Brock, Tucson, Arizona, USA of O. chryxus {e.g., Ferris 1989; Pelham 2008, 2015). (JPB); Kenelm W. Philip collection, currently housed These include O. c. strigulosa McDunnough, 1934 at the University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, Alaska, [Type Locality in Ontario], O. c. Calais (Scudder, 1865) USA (as ofjanuary, 2016) (KWP); private collection of [Type Locality in Quebec], O. c. cflryiDyar, 1904 [Type Martin Cesanek, Bratislava, Slovakia
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