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McGuire Center Museum of Natural History April, 2007 Issue 1 UF University of Florida News

McGuire Center Becomes In this issue: •Conferences at McGuire Center Mecca for Lepidopterists, •Meet the Staff hosts three international meetings in 2006 •Graduate Students The combined meetings of the Botanical Gardens and Goethe Forest •Volunteers Lepidopterists’ Society (57th), Southern while collectors headed north to the •Old Collections and New Lepidopterists’ Society, and the Osceola National Forest. Acquisitions Association for Tropical •Research Projects were held at the Hilton Hotel Convention The museum’s collections were made •Grants and Awards Center and the McGuire Center for available for researchers, students, and •Recent Publications Lepidoptera and , Florida amateur lepidopterists at the McGuire •Seminars and Lectures Museum of Natural History, University Center. Other special meetings •Expeditions and Travel of Florida, on June 14-18, 2006. included a Workshop •Rain Forest News There were 202 registrants from 13 that took place at the Department countries in attendance, the most diverse of Entomology and Nematology, representation at any meeting of the during the morning of June 14th, and three societies. continued more informally throughout the meetings. This was followed by Prior to the normally scheduled events, a National Science Foundation Tree of there was a one-day Educational Life Project Workshop in the McGuire Workshop for teachers, amateurs, Center’s Conference Room. and interested naturalists, sponsored by the Education Committee of the Later that afternoon, there was a Lepidopterists’ Society. Speakers Welcome Reception and Mixer included Susan Weller (Univ. of at FLMNH’s Powell Hall and the Minnesota), William Conner (Wake McGuire Center sponsored by the Forest Univ.), Orley Taylor (Univ. Alachua County Tourist Development of ), Robert Pyle (author and Council, BioQuip Products, Florida naturalist), Betty Dunckel, Marilyn Museum of Natural History, and the Martin, Kathy Malone, Nikole Kadel, University of Florida Foundation, Jaret Daniels (all Florida Museum Inc. A tour of the Rainforest of Natural History), Martha Weiss was followed by a slidefest with (Georgetown Univ.), and Suzette Lepidoptera being, of course, the main Slocomb (Center School District subject. #58, Kansas City). This workshop concluded with round table discussions The formal meeting sessions were on the topics of special concern such as opened on June 15th at the Hilton attracting students to natural history and Hotel Convention Center by Thomas science in general. Emmel, Director of the McGuire On June 14th, there were Center, followed by Douglas Jones, field trips for observers and Director of the Florida Museum of photographers to Kanapha Natural History, and by presidents of continues on page 4 Our Faculty, Staff, and Students Jacqueline and Lee Thomas Emmel has been Center’s George Austin, the Miller served as the Director since before its construction. collections manager and curatorial staff of the He retired from the UF Zoology Andrei Sourakov, the Allyn Museum of Department in 2003. coordinator of collections, Entomology in Sarasota handle most of the day- and moved along with the to-day collection-related collections. Jackie and issues. George came from Lee have been on the staff the Nevada State Museum of FLMNH since 1981. where he served as Curator of Natural History. Andrei John Heppner of the Christine Eliazar is McGuire had postdoc experience at Division of Plant Industry Center’s administrative assistant. She CalAcademy, USDA and relocated to the McGuire has been working for Tom Emmel for FLMNH, and was involved Center from DPI together 25 years and, in reality, runs the place. in the Center’s construction with the vast She is the person you will talk to if planning and exhibits design collections of the FSCA. you call the Center’s main number. and production.

Paul Goldstein was hired Andrew Warren moved to as Assistant Curator. the Center in July 2006 as Paul previously worked as a postdoc. He is curating a curator at the Field the collection and Museum in Chicago. continuing with his research Graduate Students on skipper classification Recent graduates: Emily Saarinen Charles Covell joined us and Mexican butterfly (M.S., 2005) worked on butterfly - diversity. He came from as a curator of , interactions; Christian Salcedo (M.S., Oregon State University. moving from Kentucky. 2006) studied roosting behavior in His expertise is moths of ; Akers Pence (Ph.D., 2006) the Geometridae. researched conservation of Sweadner’s James Schlachta was hired hairstreak; Matthew Lehnert (M.S., as Assistant Director for Jaret Daniels became 2005) worked on the Operations. Previously, Assistant Professor Homerus Swallowtail in Jim worked as the Center’s of Entomology and Jamaica; Delano Lewis construction manager. He Nematology, hired jointly (M.S., 2006) dealt with is also the acting manager systematics of Cyllopoda by this department and of the Butterfly Rainforest (Geometridae); Michael facility and its staff. the FLMNH. He has an Perry (M.S., 2006) Emily Saarinen office and many research worked on developmental biology of projects based at the butterfly wing patterns; Lorraine Duerden is our Center. Debra Mathews (Ph. D., full-time preparator and 2006) has been studying oversees four part- Keith Willmott was hired for many time preparators working for the position of years; she currently works at the display window Assistant Curator. He was at the Center curating facing the public exhibits. Debra Mathews previously a postdoctoral moths; Varsovia Cevallos (Ph. D., 2007), studied butterfly fellow at the Natural A Few Facts about the McGuire Center: biodiversity and ecology in Ecuador; and Dec. 2000 - initial gift of $4.2 million was made History Museum in Charlotte Skov (Ph.D., 2007) worked London. by McGuire Family Foundation of Wayzata, on ecology of orchid bees. Students Minn., matched by the state of Fla. with $4.2 mil- who graduated with the M.S. are mostly lion in April 2001. Mirian Medina Hay-Roe continuing on working on their Ph.D. In 2002, additional $3 million was given by Wil- continues her term as a Additionally, Mathew Trager, Court liam and Nadine McGuire. postdoc at the Center. She Whelan, James Dunford, Bret Boyd, Construction began March 2003 and finished Jennifer Zaspel, and many other students July 2004. is also teaching a course Center has 50,000 sq.feet of collection, office and are associated with the McGuire Center. on Lepidoptera Biology. exhibit space located on 3 floors. 2 McGuire Center News, Vol. 1, April 2007 The Collection’s safety and security: though we moved away from the use Collections and Acquisitions of pesticides, we have now successfully All of the diverse collections at the fumigated the collections twice. This will Recent Donors of Specimens be done as a precaution every year. The rest McGuire Center have been merged Allen T. Hart W. Olson E. of the year, the collection rooms are kept at now into a single collection. This was Anderson R. Harvey D. Platt A. 60°F. All incoming material is frozen for not a small task. There were more than Austin G. Heppner J. Preston F.&J. Bailowitz R. Hesterberg R. Rings R. one week at –36°F in our 1600 ft³ walk-in 100 separate collections in the building freezer . Bowe J. Hollister R. Ross G. when we moved in; two of these (Allyn Boyd B. Khanal B. Rozycki R. Brock J. Klein T. Savage P. The library has grown almost as fast Museum and DPI) were in excess of Bryne Leigh A. Seitz J. as our collections. A second full set 1.5 million specimens each. Some Covell C. MacPherson B. Simon M. of compactors was just installed in the private new donations were also very Cox J. Marcus J. Samford Un. Deroller C. McGuire W. Sourakov A. library to accommodate new acquisitions. large, such as Austin’s collection of Eisele R. Miller G. Turner J. Daidria and Delano Lewis are working 350,000 specimens. With 10,000 new Eitschberger U. Miller H. Turner T. as part time librarians. CalAcademy- drawers that were Emmel T. Miller J.&L. Tuttle J. Finkelstein I. Minno M. Watkinson I. purchased prior to the opening of the Gilbert L. Nordin J. Whelan C. Center, we were able to organize the Gorelick G. Noss A. Willmott K. Goldstein P. O’Hara B. collections of , Harjes G. Odor J. and Hesperiidae as well as a large portion of the moth collection. These Phenology of a Moth Community in now are located in the new compactors North-Central Florida: Volunteers on the 1st and 2nd floors. George Austin and Andrei Sourakov have been analyzing richness and UF students, Sam Landrian, Shelly phenology of the moth fauna in North- Flanagin, Kevin Carty, and Lyndall The larger and moths Central Florida since January 2005. Brezina are assisting in curating and are housed in Cornell drawers in databasing collections. High school compactors on the lower level. The students, such as Ian Segebarth curation of these groups is in progress. and Patrick McCaffrey also work as volunteers. Meanwhile, we have recently received Mark J. Simon, several major collections. Fortunately,

a physician, who has had the space in the compactors will not

Tiger moths Tiger Apanthesis a life long-interest in be an issue for many years to come In only the first year of the study, over Lepidoptera, is currently as there is room for 70,000 drawers 1100 were collected from a recurating the neotropical Isis Jaimez (50,000 CalAcademy and 20,000 single locality (George’s backyard) . Isis Jaimez is visiting Cornell). Purchases of unit trays have adjacent to Paynes Prairie near from Venezuela, where she studied been made, totalling 60,000 trays. Gainesville. Sampling, databasing, satyrines. She will be volunteering in the and analyzing nearly 14,000 specimens collections while studying English at UF. collected in 2005 has allowed Dale Habeck, retired from Entomology determination of seasonal fluctuations in Dept. and curates moths and immatures. species richness and relative abundance. Anthony Darrell, a Other Gifts: retired USDA taxonomist Bioacoustics Laboratory has been working in the A Project on Richness and John Moran’s Photography Prints library for the last two Phenology of a Moth Community in Monarch Society years. Bob Eisele works on Joseph Sheer Lepidoptera Scans Argentine butterflies that (See next issue for details) he donated to the McGuire Bob Eisele Ceneter. Gary Ross, of Baton Rouge, donated his One of the problems that has haunted most butterfly collection and collections is the expense of the in- loaned his Zapatec Indian sect drawers. Though the McGuire Center tapestries and paintings is a unique facility in many respects, here too the growth of collections is ahead of for exhibiting at the our ability to buy new drawers. We hope McGuire Center; he made that with the help of grants and private presentations at the 2006 gifts, we will overcome this in the near Gary Ross Florida Butterfly Festival. future.

McGuire Center News, Vol. 1, April 2007 3 continues from page 1 For more information about the Lepidop- terists’ Society, visit: each of the societies. Presentations http://facweb.furman.edu/~snyderjohn/ lepsoc/ of scientific papers followed for four days, with three special symposia On Sunday, June 18th, after the devoted to Southern Lepidoptera, final scientific presentations, the Neotropical Lepidoptera, and a Lepidopterists’ Society business student symposium on the Behavior meeting took place, with Felix of Lepidoptera. In all, there were 13 Sperling presiding. Students from posters and 76 oral presentations over a number of institutions sang the An eminent writer Robert M. Pyle and a noted the four day meetings, and of these, 19 lepidopterist Jonathan Pelham at the BBQ on Friday meeting resolutions to a version of Dr. were by student, our future generation night of the meeting Suess’ “Oh, The Places You’ll Go.” of lepidopterists. awarded to Sangmi Lee, Mississippi In-coming President William Conner Entomological Museum, Mississippi received the honorary symbols of During the Annual Banquet, State University. There were so many the office and concluded the official William McGuire, a lepidopterist excellent student oral presentations meetings at 11:45 a.m. whose donations helped build the that the judges’ deliberations resulted Center, delivered an address to the in a three-way tie between Jennifer participants on “The Significance of Zaspel (Dept. of Entomology, Museum Collections in the Future,” University of Florida), Todd Gilligan, and their use in world biodiversity (Dept. of Entomology, Ohio State and conservation studies. This University), and Sarah Garrett (Dept. was followed by Felix Sperling, of Biology, Wake Forest University). on “Collectors, Collections, and Charles V. Covell, Jr., ably assisted by Collegial Connections.” Rebecca Annie Lott and Susan Weller, presided Simmons announced the winners of over the evening’s door prizes. Lepidopterists’ Society awards. The William D. Winter Service Award The Lepidopterists’ Society held its was given to Julian P. Donahue, Executive Board Meeting, while the formerly of the Los Angeles County Association for Tropical Lepidoptera Museum, for his continued service to and the Southern Lepidopterists’ Thomas Emmel (left), William McGuire (right), and the Society. The Alexander B. Klots Society held their business meetings Sabine Zoller (middle) in the Butterfly Rainforest at Award for the best student poster was during the meeting period. the McGuire Center 57th Meeting of the Lepidopterists’ Society, June 14-18, 2006, Gainesville.

“The great diversity of topics being discussed at these meetings is fascinating to behold. And because they are considering the earth’s biodiversity, and especially Lepidoptera, I thought it particularly appropriate to note that there may be no other area of interest or study that relates to living things in which contributions drawn from both advocation and vocation are so integrally entwined and important. The fact that so many people from various walks of life who are collecting and studying butterflies and moths can be also interested in writing and talking about them – coupled with researchers, scientists and teachers who do this as a profession – offers hope at a time when the environment is deteriorating and the great institutional reference and study resources of the past are gravely threatened.” William W. McGuire From Banquet Address on June 17, 2006 Lu i s -Ma r t n e z A., J.E. Ll o r e n t e , I. F.Va r g a s , Meeting of the Andean Butterfly Project A. D. Wa r r e n . 2003. Bi o d i v e r s i t y An d The first international planning meeting Ciencias Naturales, Quito; Patricio Biogeography Of Me x i c a n Bu t t e r fl i e s (Le p i d o p t e r a : Pa p i l i o n o i d e a An d He s p e r i o i d e a ). of the Tropical Andean Butterfly Ponce, Ecuador Field Director of the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Diversity Project (TABDP) was held McGuire Center, Quito. Washington: Vol. 105, No. 1, pp. 209–224. at the McGuire Center between 20-30 Mexican Database Project April 2006, with representatives of the *VENEZUELA* Since September 2004, Jackie Miller, principal organizations and institutions José Clavijo, Museo de Zoología del Carmen Pozo (ECOSUR, Mexico), involved in the project. Instituto Agrícola Francisco Fernández Y, Maracay; Ángel Viloria, Instituto Armando Luis Martinez and Jorge Llorente (UNAM, Mexico), and their The first three days of the meeting Venezolano de Investigac. Científicas, associates have worked on databasing involved a practice run through the Caracas. Mexican Lepidoptera at the McGuire lectures and practicals that were Center. These include specimens from designed to form part of a one-week *COLOMBIA* older collections (e.g., of Tarsicio training course for South American Gonzalo Andrade, Instituto de Escalante) and from more recent students in tropical Andean butterflies. Ciencias Naturales, Universidad biological surveys completed by Robert The logistics of running the student Nacional, Bogotá; Jean Francois Wind, Eduardo Welling, and Lee and courses were discussed, including LeCrom, Editor Mariposas de Jackie Miller, which provide timelines for dates, potential locations, equipment Colombia, Bogotá; Mauricio Linares, biodiversity studies. Thus far, more than available, advertising, criteria for Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá. 42,000 specimens have been databased. There are more than 800 separate localities recorded from 30 of the 32 states that comprise Mexico. The oldest specimens were collected in 1904, but more than 50% of the butterflies were collected by the Millers in the 1960s and 70s, mostly across the Transvolcanic Belt in central Mexico and points south. This information, taken in conjunction with the larger database at UNAM, will enable researchers to track the geographic distribution of species over time, to assess their current distribution, and to help identify those species that student evaluation, and potential course *BOLIVIA* may be in peril. In conjunction with instructors. José Luis Aramayo, Museo Noel geospatial data as well as ecological and Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz; Yuvinka climatic observations, these data will be Subsequent days involved discussions Gareca, Museo Noel Kempff Mercado, invaluable in planning future reserves in of other project activities, including Santa Cruz; Julieta Ledezma, Museo Mexico. specimen databasing methods and Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz. protocols, data ownership, methods of data analysis and planned publications. *UNITED STATES* The database developed for project Keith Willmott, McGuire Center members to use was demonstrated, and for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, each member country received a digital Gainesville, Florida; José Vicente camera for photography of specimens in Rodríguez, Conservation International their collections. *GREAT BRITAIN* Participants: James Mallet, University College, *PERÚ* London; Blanca Huertas, Natural Gerardo Lamas, Universidad Nacional History Museum, London. Mayor de San Marcos, Lima.

*ECUADOR* Marco Altamirano, Museo Ecuatoriano For more information, visit: de Ciencias Naturales, Quito; Varsovia http://www.andeanbutterflies.org/ Cevallos, Museo Ecuatoriano de Armando Luis Martinez at the McGuire Center McGuire Center News, Vol. 1, April 2007 5 Grants and Awards (in part) Jaret Daniels, Assistant Professor: Many UF undergraduates work part time as •2006-2007 PI – Elizabeth Ordway Dunn preparators, lab technicians, and research Foundation. “Restoration of the State- assistants thanks to these grants. Endangered Butterfly.”. Keith Willmott, Assistant Curator $15,000. •2006 PI: Collaborative Research – The •2006-2007 PI – AZA Conservation Butterflies of Ecuador (Lepidoptera: Endowment Fund. “Expansion of ): A Comprehensive the Florida Butterfly Monitoring Survey of a Megadiverse Fauna; The McGuire Center’s Genetics Lab Network.” $14,425. National Science Foundation (USA), Research projects at •2006-2007 PI - Disney Wildlife Systematic Biology and Biodiversity the McGuire Center: Conservation Fund. “Florida Butterfly Inventories, $400,000 (UF: $118,000) Conservation: Monitoring Network.” $18,400. •2005 Florida Museum of Natural History •Conservation biology of the Homerus •2006-2007 PI - Florida Fish and Wildlife Museum Associates Fund, $6,180. Swallowtail in Jamaica Conservation Commission. “Florida •2005 Co-Leader (with J. Mallet): Tropical •Conservation of the Miami Blue Butterfly Publications.” $15,687. Andean Butterfly Diversity Project; •Conservation of the Schaus Swallowtail •2005-2007 PI - National Fish and Darwin Initiative, DEFRA (UK), •Sweadner’s Hairstreak and Coastal Wildlife Foundation. “Conservation $277,000. Development of the Endangered Miami Blue •2004 Co-PI (with C. Jiggins): Adaptive Ecology and Evolution: Butterfly.”, $35,000. speciation and niche divergence •Butterfly-Ant Symbiosis in mimetic tropical butterflies; •Chemical Ecology of Heliconius •2005-2006 Co-PI - Disney Wildlife Leverhulme Trust (UK), $282,000. • Diversiry, Evolution and Conservation Fund. “Miami Blue

Ecology of Ithomiine Communities Butterfly Conservation.” $19,700. Jennifer Zaspel, graduate research •Sound Production in Heliconius •2005-2006 Co-PI – Florida Fish and associate: •Night Roosting in Heliconius Wildlife Conservation Commission/ •Speciation in Heliconius Wildlife Foundation of Florida. •2006 Graduate Student Scholarship, Surveys and Inventories: “Continued Captive Propagation and Florida Entomological Society ($500). •Butterfly Diversity ofRondônia , Brazil Reintroduction of the Endangered •2006 Harry K. Clench Award for Best •Richness and Phenology of a Moth Miami Blue Butterfly.” $42,000. Student Paper, Lepidopterists’ Society Community in North-central Florida •2005-2007 Co-PI – Florida Fish and ($250). •Butterflies of Ecuador Wildlife Conservation Commission. •2006 The Exploration Fund of The •Butterflies of Bahamas “Molecular Diversity of the State- Explorers Club, NY, for field research and West Indies Endangered Miami Blue Butterfly.” in Vladivostok, Russia ($1,200). •Mexican Butterflies $57,230. •2006 Van York Scholarship for Women in •Tropical Andean But- Bungalotis midas •2005-2006 Co-PI – Florida Wildflower the Agricultural Sciences, University terfly Diversity Project Rondônia, Brazil Advisory Council. “Educating the of Florida ($500). •Butterflies of California Public about Florida’s Wildflowers •Butterflies of Nevada •2005 President’s Prize for Best Student and Butterflies.” $94,409. and Systematics: Paper, Entomological Society of •Higher Classification of Hesperiidae •2005-2006 Co-PI - Florida Fish and America ($70). •Higher Classification of Wildlife Conservation Commission. •2005 Lewis and Clark Fund for Research •Systematics and Evolution of Apameini “Florida Butterfly Monitoring and Exploration, American Philo- (Noctuidae) Network.” $27,589. sophical Society, for field research in •Systematics of Speyeria •Co-PI – AZA Conservation Endowment Godavari, Nepal ($3,500). •Systematics of Ithomiinae Fund. “Florida Butterfly Monitoring •Taxonomy of Monarch Butterflies Network.” 2004-2006, $27,730. Emily Saarinen, graduate student: •Taxonomy and Systematics of •2005-2006 Co-PI – Elizabeth Ordway •2006-2009 Canon National Parks Science Cyllopodini (Geometridae: Dunn Foundation. “Conservation of Scholars Fellow. Sterrhinae) the State-Endangered Miami Blue •2004-2008 UF Alumni Fellowship. •Phylogeny and Classification of the Butterfly.” $10,000. •2005 Florida Federation of Garden Clubs, Blood-feeding and Fruit-feeding Butterfly Scholarship. Moths (Calpini: Noctuidae) •2005 Klots Award from the Lepidopterists’ Mirian Medina Hay-Roe, postdoc: •Nearctic Pterophoridae: Life Histories, Society for Best Student Poster. Morphology, and Taxonomy •2004 Delores A. Auzenne Graduate •2005 University of Florida Graduate Scholars Fellowship, UF. Student Council Grant for Research. For more information, visit our web site: •2004 Florida Entomological Society •2002-2003 Fulbright Fellowship. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/mcguire/ Scholarship. 6 McGuire Center News, Vol. 1, April 2007 Recent Publications 2003-04: . Kluwer Academic Press, New York. 2580 pp. (3 Attum, O., C. Covell & P. Eason. 2004. The comparative vol.). diet of three Saharan sand dune skinks. African Journal of Heppner, J. B. 2004. Family treatments for 118 different families Herpetology, 53 (1): 91 -94. of Lepidoptera (throughout the Encyclopedia). in J. L. Capinera, Austin G. T., D. D. Murphy, J. F. Baughman, A. E. Launer, ed. Encyclopedia of Insects. Kluwer Academic Press, and E. Fleishman. 2003. Hybridization of checkerspot New York. 2580 pp. (3 vol.). butterflies in the Great Basin. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Heppner, J. B. 2004. ATLAS OF NEOTROPICAL Society, 57(3):176-192. LEPIDOPTERA. Checklist: Part 4A. Hesperioidea - Balcázar-Lara, M., and K.R. Willmott. 2004. A new Papilionoidea. Gainesville: Assoc. Tropical Lepidoptera, 36 + 439 subspecies of Adelpha erymanthis from Mexico, with a key pp. to identification of similar taxa (Lepidoptera: : Heppner, J. B. 2004. Notes on Euchlaena ‘pectinaria’ in the United Biblidinae). Tropical Lepidoptera, 12(1-2)(“2001”): 25-38. States (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: ), Lepidoptera Daniels, J. C. 2004. BUTTERFLIES OF THE CAROLINAS: News, 2002(3-4): 6-7. FIELD GUIDE. Adventure Publications: Cambridge, MN. Goldstein, P. Z. 2004. Systematic collection data in North 414 pp. American invertebrate conservation and monitoring programs. Daniels, J. C. 2004. BUTTERFLIES OF GEORGIA: FIELD Applied Ecology, 41: 175-180. GUIDE. Adventure Publications: Cambridge, MN. 408 pp. Goldstein, P. Z., Y. Wyner, P. Doukakis, M. Egan, H. Rosenbaum, Daniels, J. C. 2004. BUTTERFLIES OF OHIO: FIELD and R. DeSalle. 2004. Theory and methods for diagnosing GUIDE. Adventure Publications: Cambridge, MN. 344 pp. species and populations in conservation. Annals of the Debrot, A. O., and J. Y. Miller. 2004. Butterflies and moths Botanical Gardens, 92:12-27. of Curacao, Aruba and Bonaire. Research and Goldstein, P. Z., S. Hall, B. Hart, S. Roble, and J. Shuey. 2004. Management of Biodiversity (CARMABI), Curacao, Evaluation of Relationships and Conservation Status within the Netherlands Antilles. 100 pp. Complex (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Dunford, J. C., and D. K. Young. 2004. Annotated checklist Report to U.S.F.W.S., Raleigh, NC. of Wisconsin darkling (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Matthews, D.L. & Gielis, C. 2004. Leptodeuterocopus neales: Transactions of the American Entomological Society, a new record for Florida and the United States (Lepidoptera: 130(1): 57-76. Pterophoridae: Deuterocopinae). Florida Entomologist 87(4), Emmel, T. C., and A. Sourakov. 2004. Monarchs. Pp. 621-622. 1452-1456 in J. L. Capinera, ed. Encyclopedia of Landry, B., Roque-Albelo, L. & Matthews, D.L. 2004. Supplemental Insects. Kluwer Academic Press, New York. additions to the Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera) of the Galápagos Hay-Roe, M. M., and R. Mankin. 2004. Wing-Click sounds Islands (Ecuador) with description of a new species of Adaina of Heliconius cydno alithea (Nymphalidae: ) Tutt. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen butterflies. Journal of Insect Behavior, 17 (3): 329-335. Gesellschaft 77: 289-310. (Re s e a r c h f e a t u r e o n DISCOVERY NEWS, BBC, Sourakov, A. 2004. Night blooming plants and their PLANET, a n d v a r i o u s m e d i a .) insect pollinators. Pp. 1556-1558 in J. L. Capinera, ed. Hay-Roe, M. M., S. Shapiro, J. Becnel, and D. Boucias. Encyclopedia of Insects. Kluwer Academic Press, New 2003. A newly discovered baculovirus induces reflex York. 2580 pp. (3 vol.). bleeding in the butterfly Heliconius himera (Nymphalidae: Sourakov, A. 2004. Pyrrolizidine alkaloids and Tiger Moths Heliconiinae). Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 84: 59- (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Pp. 1857-1858 in J. L. Capinera, ed. 62. Heppner, J. B. 2004. Mexican Lepidoptera biodiversity. Willmott, K. R., and A. Insecta Mundi (Gainesville), 16(4): 171-190 (2002). V. L. Freitas. 2006. Heppner, J. B. 2004. Orange tortrix, “Argyrotaenia citrana”: Higher-level phylogeny a western species not in Florida (Lepidoptera: ). of the Ithomiinae Florida Entomologist, Gainesville, FL, 87(2): 235-236. (Lepidoptera: Heppner, J. B. 2004. Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Nymphalidae): Pp. 384-387 in J. L. Capinera, ed. Encyclopedia of classification, patterns Insects. Kluwer Academic Press, New York. 2580 pp. (3 vol.). of larval hostplant colonisation and Heppner, J. B. 2004. Butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera). diversification. Pp. 387-428 in J. L. Capinera, ed. Encyclopedia of Cladistics, 22: 297-368 Insects. Kluwer Academic Press, New York. 2580 pp. (3 vol.). (August). Heppner, J. B. 2004. Moths (Lepidoptera: Heterocera). Pp. 1477-1480 in J. L. Capinera, ed. Encyclopedia of McGuire Center News, Vol. 1, April 2007 7 Recent Publications continued

Encyclopedia of Insects. Kluwer Academic Press, Hall, J. P. W., K. R. Willmott, and R. C. Busby. 2005. Five New York. 2580 pp. (3 vol.). new Penaincisalia species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Sourakov, A., and T. C. Emmel. 2004. Insect conservation. ) from the Andes of southern Ecuador and northern pp. 595-604 in J. L. Capinera, ed. Encyclopedia of Peru. Zootaxa, 797:1-20 Insects. Kluwer Academic Press, New York. 2580 pp. (3 Hall, J. P. W., and K. R. Willmott. 2005. A new species of vol.). Paiwarria (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Eumaeini) from Willmott, K. R., and J. P. W. Hall. 2004. Taxonomic notes western Ecuador. Proceedings of the Entomological Society on the genus Zaretis, with the description of a new species of Washington, 107(4): 960-967. (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Charaxinae). Tropical Henry, T. J., C. V. Covell Jr., and A. G. Wheeler. 2005. Lepidoptera, 12(1-2)(“2001”): 29-34. The Plant Bugs, or Miridae (, Heteroptera), of Willmott, K. R. and J. Mallet. 2004. Correlations between Kentucky. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, adult mimicry and larval hostplants in ithomiine butterflies. 113(1-2): 24-76. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B (Biology Heppner, J. B. 2005. The Monarch, Danaus plexippus Letters Suppl.), 271: S266-S269. (Linnaeus) (Nymphalidae: ). Scientific Publishers. Willmott, K. R., and J. P. W. Hall. 2004. Common 42pp. Butterflies of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Heppner, J. B. 2005. Tribal classification of the Lepidoptera. Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales, Quito. 2 pp. [in Lepidoptera News, 2003(1-2): 1-22. press] Heppner, J. B. 2005. Distribution notes on moths, 2-5. Willmott, K. R., and J. P. W. Hall. 2004. Common Lepidoptera News, 2003(1-2): 23-30. Butterflies of Yuturi and Yarina lodge. Heppner, J. B. 2005. Primitive sedge moths from New Yuturi Lodge, Ecuador. 2 pp. Zealand and Tasmania: transfer of Proditrix and relatives to Orthoteliinae (Lepidoptera: ). Lepidoptera 2005: News, 2003(1-2): 31-42. Calhoun, J., L. D. Miller, and J. Y. Miller. 2005. Melitaea Heppner, J. B. 2005. Neurobathra leafminer records on nycteis Doubleday, 1847 (currently nycteis; Insecta, Jatropha new to Florida (Lepidoptera: ). Lepidoptera): proposed conservation of the specific name. Lepidoptera News, 2003(1-2): 56. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 62(2): 79-83. Heppner, J. B. 2005. Review of the family Amphitheridae Covell, C. V. Jr. 2005. A FIELD GUIDE TO EASTERN (Lepidoptera: ). Tinea (Tokyo), 18 (Suppl. 3): 24- MOTHS, Virginia Museum of Natural History; 2nd edition. 40. 518p. Heppner, J. B. 2005. Notes on the plaster bagworm, Daniels, J. C. 2005. Piggybacking northward: movement Phereoeca uterella, in Florida (Lepidoptera: ). of cassius (Lycaenidae: Polymmatininae) Holarctic Lepidoptera, 10(1-2)31-32. (2003) throughout the Southeast. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Heppner, J. B., and J. R. Brushwein. 2005. Gulf fritillary, Society, 59(4): 234. Agraulis vanillae, with light larval variants in Florida Daniels, J. C., J. A. Pence, and T. C. Emmel. 2005. A (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Holarctic Lepidoptera, 10(1-2): new hostplant record for Strymon martialis (Lycaenidae: 48. (2003) ) in the Florida Keys. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Heppner, J. B., E. H. Metzler, J. A. Shuey, L. A. Ferge, R.A. Society, 59(3): 174-175. Henderson, and P. Z. Goldstein. 2005. Contributions to the Daniels, J. C. 2005. BUTTERFLIES OF MICHIGAN: FIELD Understanding of Tallgrass Prairie-Dependent Butterflies and GUIDE. Adventure Publications, Cambridge, MN. 376 pp. Moths (Lepidoptera) and their Biogeography in the United Dunford, J. C. 2005. Chasing greater fritillaries: The rise of States. Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin New Series, 15(1): Atlantis. American Butterflies, 13: 14-25. viii + 143 pages Dunford, J. C., and R. J. Ekin. 2005. Greater Fritillaries at Matthews, D.L. & Lott, T.A. 2005. Larval Hostplants of the three localities in the Humboldt National Forest, Nevada. Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera: Pterophoroidea). Memoirs of American Butterflies, 13: 26-32. the American Entomological Institute 76: 1-324. Goldstein, P. Z., and M. F. Fibiger. 2005. Biosystematics and Saarinen, E. V. 2005. Life history and myrmecophily of evolution of the Apameini: A global synopsis. Pp. 15-23 in A. Zilli, L. Ronkay, and M. Fibiger, eds., Noctuidae Some of the on-line resources maintained by the staff of the Europeae, Vol. 8 Apameini. Sorø, Denmark. McGuire Center: Entomological Press. http://www.butterfliesofecuador.com/ http://www.mariposasmexicanas.com/ Habeck, D.H. & Balciunas, J.K. 2005. Larvae of Nymphulinae http://www.andeanbutterflies.org/ (Lepidoptera: ) associated with Hydrilla verticillata Immatures of ithomiinae: (Hydrocharitaceae) in North Queensland. Australian Journal of http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/butterflies/neotropica/ith_imm.html Entomology 44: 354-363.

8 McGuire Center News, Vol. 1, April 2007 Neomyrina nivea periculosa (Lycaenidae: Theclinae). Journal científicos uniandinos, 7: 22-33. of the Lepidopterists’ Society, 59(2): 112-115. Matthews, D.L. 2006. Larvae and Pupae of Nearctic Whinnett, A., A. V. Z. Brower, M-M. Lee, K. R. Willmott, and J. Pterophoridae: A Synopsis of Life Histories, Morphology, Mallet. 2005. The phylogenetic utility of tektin, a novel region and Taxonomy (Lepidoptera: Pterophoroidea). PhD for inferring systematic relationships amongst Lepidoptera. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville. 959 pp. http: Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 98(6): 873- //purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0016780. 886. Matthews, D.L., Duncan, M.A. & Habeck, D.H. 2006. Cosmoclostis aglaodemsa: description of the and Whinnett, A., F. Simpson, K. R. Willmott, G. Lamas, and J. (Pterophoridae: : Pterophorini). Journal of the Mallet. 2005. Mitochondrial DNA provides an insight into the Lepidopterist’s Society 60: 92-97. mechanisms driving diversification in the ithomiine butterfly Hyposcada anchiala (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Ithomiinae). Mavárez, J., C. Salazar, E. Bermingham, C. Salcedo, C. D. European Journal of Entomology, 102(4): 633-639. Jiggins, M. Linares. 2006. Speciation by hybridization in Heliconius butterflies. Nature, 441: 868-871. Whinnett, A., M. Zimmermann, K. R. Willmott, N. Herrera, R. Mallarino, F. Simpson, M. Joron, G. Lamas, and J. Mallet. Miller, J. Y., and L. D. Miller. 2006. Report on Field Work 2005. Strikingly variable divergence times inferred across an and Observations on Cat Island, Bahamas. Submitted to the Amazonian butterfly ‘suture zone’. Proceedings of the Royal Bahamas National Trust. Society of London B, 272(1580): 2525-2533. Pyrcz, T. W., K. R. Willmott, J. P. W. Hall, and A. L. Viloria. 2006. A review of the genus Manerebia Staudinger (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: ) in the northern Andes. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, 39: 37-79 2006: (2000) (August). Brower, A. V. Z., A. V. L. Freitas, M.-M. Lee, K. L. Silva Brandão, Saarinen, E.V. 2006. Differences in worker caste behavior A. Whinnett, and K. R. Willmott. 2006. Phylogenetic of (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) relationships among the (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in response to larvae of emolus (Lepidoptera: inferred from one mitochondrial and two nuclear gene regions. Lycaenidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 88: Systematic Entomology, 31: 288-301. 391-395. Covell, C.V. Jr. 2006. The mantisflies (Neuroptera, Mantispidae) Saarinen, E. V., and J. C. Daniels. 2006. Miami Blue butterfly of Kentucky. Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science. larvae (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) and (Hymenoptera: 67(1): 65-66. Formicidae): New information on the symbionts of an Daniels, J. C., and S. J. Sanchez. 2006. Blues’ Revival: Can a endangered . Florida Entomologist, 89 (1):69-74. change in diet - and a little laboratory assistance - help a Florida Tarter, D. C., D. L. Chaffee, C. V. Covell Jr., and S. T. O’Keefe. butterfly escape extinction? Natural History, New York. 2006. New distribution records of fishflies (Megaloptera: Daniels, J. C., J. A. Pence, and T. C. Emmel. 2006. Additional Corydalidae) for Kentucky, U.S.A. Entomological News records of ammon (Lycaenidae: Lycaeninae) in the 117(1): 41 - 46. Florida Keys. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society, 60:97-99. Willmott, K. R., and A. V. L. Freitas. 2006. Higher-level Dunford, J. C., L. A. Somma, and D. Serrano. 2006. Earwigflies phylogeny of the Ithomiinae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): in the Great Smokies. Southeastern Biology, 53: 27-29. classification, patterns of larval hostplant colonisation and Dunford, J. C., D. K. Young, and S. J. Krauth. 2006. Stethobaris diversification. Cladistics, 22: 297-368 (August). ovata (LeConte) () on eastern prairie fringed Willmott, K. R., and G. Lamas. 2006. A phylogenetic orchid [Platanthera leucophaea (Nuttall) Lindley] in Wisconsin. reassessment of Hyalenna Forbes and Dircenna Doubleday, The Coleopterists Bulletin, 60: 51-52. with a revision of Hyalenna (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Gareca, Y., E. Forno, T. Pyrcz, K. R. Willmott, and S. Reichle. Ithomiinae). Systematic Entomology, 31(3): 419-468 (July). 2006. Lista preliminar de mariposas diurnas de Bolivia. Pp. 1-66 in: Gareca, Y., and S. Reichle (eds.), Mariposas 2007: Diurnas de Bolivia. Tarija, Bolivia, PROMETA. (December). Daniels, J. C. 2007. Courtship solicitation by females of the Gibson, Loran D., and C. V. Covell Jr. 2006. New Records of barred sulphur butterfly (: daira) (Lepidoptera: Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) from Kentucky. Journal of ). Journal of Insect Behavior, 20(1): 129-135. the Kentucky Academy of Science, 67: 19-21. Hay-Roe, M. M. and J. Nation. 2007. Spectrum of Cyanide Toxicity and Allocation in and Host Heppner, J. B. 2006. LEPIDOPTERORUM CATALOGUS Plants. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 33(2): 319-329. (new series). Fasc. 2 (Agathiphagidae), 10 (Anomosetidae), 28 (), 89 (Apoprogonidae), 106 (Carthaeidae), Gainesville: Assoc. Tropical Lepidoptera, viii + 8 pp. Jiggins, C. D., R. Mallarino, K. R. Willmott, and E. Bermingham. 2006. The phylogenetic pattern of speciation and wing pattern change in neotropical Ithomia butterflies (Lepidoptera; Please, visit our on-line Lepidoptera photo database: Nymphalidae). Evolution, 60: 1454-1466 (August). http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/butterflygallery/ Contact [email protected] if you would like to contrib- Linares M., C. Salazar, and C. Salcedo. 2006. Butterflies’ color ute your photos. and DNA reveal their evolutionary history. Hypotesis, Apuntes McGuire Center News, Vol. 1, April 2007 9 Seminars and Lectures The seminar series at the McGuire Tuesday, April 3: Center started practically from the first Jennifer Zaspel days of operation. Usually, seminars Dept. of Entomology, UF take place in informal atmosphere, with “Examples from the fruit-piercing and blood-feeding moth Calyptra thalictri lunch served in the conference room (Noctuidae, Calpinae)” and announcements concerning daily operations of the Center. The seminars Tuesday, April 17: Dubi Benyamini and Bob Eisele at the seminar are scheduled every other week, with Christian Salcedo visiting scientists filling in the available McGuire Center Visiting Speakers spots. “Spatial Dynamics of Heliconius night The McGuire Center is visited by many roosting” research scientists from all over the Spring 2007 Seminar Schedule: world. Below are some of the visitors and Tuesday, Jan. 23: topics of their presentations: Carmen Pozo Akito V. Kawahara (University of ECOSUR, Mexico Maryland)-Cultural Entomology; “Lepidoptera larvae as environmental Carmen Pozo (Mexico)-Mexican survey indicators in Yucatan: Goals and Problems” projects; Christopher Wheat (University of Hel- Tuesday, Feb. 6: sinki)-Metapopulations; Varsovia E. Cevallos Daniel Janzen (University of Penn- Quito, Ecuador sylvania and Costa Rica)-Barcoding of “Community Ecology of butterflies in Lepidoptera in Guanacaste; Cotopaxi National Park, Ecuador” Dubi Benyamini (Israel)-Biology of Nabokov’s Blues (Pseudolucia). Tuesday, Feb. 20: Gerardo Lamas (Lima, Peru)-Cultural Andrew Warren Lepidopterology; McGuire Center Jack H. Cox (N. Carolina)-Crocodile “Higher classification of the Hesperiidae” Conservation in PNG; Jack Schuster (Guatemala)-Passalid Tuesday, March 6: Beetles; James K. Adams The McGuire Center’s Conference room James K. Adams (Dalton State Univer- Dalton, GA sity, Georgia)-Noctuid moths; “The genus : What’s all the fuss University Courses recently taught James Mallet (University College, Lon- about?” don)-Evolution of Heliconius; by the staff of the McGuire Center: Biology of the Lepidoptera (Paul Gold- Jeffrey S. Glassberg (New Jersey)- Tuesday, March 13 stein) NABA; Dr. Gerardo Lamas Lepidoptera Biology (Mirian Medina Jose Luis Salinas Gutierrez (Mexico)- Museo de Historia Natural Hay-Roe) Mexican Biodiversity; Univ. Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Aquatic Entomology (Charles Covell) K. T. Park (Chuncheon, Korea)-Moths of Lima, Peru Insect Conservation and Ecotourism Korea; “Cultural Lepidopterology” (Jaret Daniels) Lincoln P. Brower (Sweetbriar College)- Techniques in Lepidoptera Systematics Conservation of Monarchs; Tuesday, March 20: (Andrei Sourakov) Marcus R. Kronforst (University of Dr. Deborah M. Lott Immature Insects (James Dunford) and Rice University)-Butterfly McGuire Center Insect Biogeography (Keith Willmott) Genetics; “Larvae and pupae of Nearctic Graduate students also frequently work as Mauricio Linares (Colombia)-Evolution Pterophoridae” Teaching Assistants in a variety of courses of Heliconius; in Zoology, Entomology and Nematology, Susan Weller (University Minnesota)- Thursday, March 29, 2007 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Arctiid Evolution; Dubi Benyamini Biological Sciences Departments. Varsovia Cevallos (Ecuador)-Butterflies Israel of Cotopaxi NP; “Highlights on the Biology of the Andean Vazrick Nazari (University of Alberta)- If you would like to receive current Blues in the Genus information via e-mail about lectures and Evolution of Papilionidae; Pseudolucia” Vladimir Lukhtanov (St. Petersburg, seminars at the McGuire Center, please contact: [email protected] Russia)-Evolution of Blues.

10 McGuire Center News, Vol. 1, April 2007 Natural History Tours Guided by Staff and Students The Florida Museum of Natural at UF) receive hands-on experience History and Expedition Travel are by co-leading expeditions and tours, now working together to organize planning itineraries, and preparing and lead educational trips around trip arrangements. The most recent the world for all those interested in trips to Mexico in January and March unique cultural and natural history 2007 allowed participants to witness experiences. Destinations include the stunning Monarch Butterfly the Galápagos Islands, Madagascar, overwintering sites. Participants were

Monarchs in the colony, Michiochan, Mexico Upcoming Trips Education and Professional Development: Madagascar - October-November, 2007 Alaska: Brooks Falls and Arctic Ecology - June 28 - July 6, 2008 Grand Canyon Rafting - July 20- 27, 2008 Exploration: Ecuador - June 9-21, 2007 Monarchs in the colony, Michiochan, Mexico in the middle of two of the largest Panama - August 4-18, 2007 Monarch colonies, numbering roughly French Guiana, Costa Rica and many Galápagos - December 1-10, 2007 others. Staff of the McGuire Center 200 million, with some of the highest have years of experience in foreign levels of flight activity seen in over 25 travel around the world. Additionally, years of visiting Mexico. the majors in Ecotourism (a new major A December 2006 educational trip in the Department of Entomology took a group of 13 on a 83-foot yacht to the Galápagos Islands. McGuire Center staff and local guides led daily terrestrial explorations. Diving among the underwater life was led by experienced dive-masters.

Information about the trips can be obtained by contacting Madagascar houses 40 species of lemurs, 62 Court Whelan species of chameleons, and many endemic [email protected] birds and insects. Tom Emmel is planning to or calling (352) 871-2710. lead an educational tour to this biological trea- surehouse in October-November, 2007. Court Whelan Giant tortoise, Galápagos

McGuire Center News, Vol. 1, April 2007 11 The Rainforest The McGuire Center Butterfly Rainforest is a 6,400 square foot, 65-foot

tall, steel and screen living exhibit. Its walkway meanders through lush . tropical foliage and encounters five waterfalls. The 430 species of - producing tropical and subtropical plants support 1,500-2000 butterflies of over 110 species. It is the largest living exhibit of its kind in the world. During the dry, hot conditions of early summer, there is a high pressure fog system to supplement the waterfalls in humidifying and cooling the vivarium. Butterflies in the exhibit come as pupae from butterfly farms in the Philippines, Malaysia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Surinam, Ecuador,

Belize and Florida. Butterfly release in the Rainforest exhibit at the McGuire Center McGuire the at exhibit Rainforest the in release Butterfly A Philippine nymphalid butterfly, Parthenos sylvia, and Malaysian moth, atlas, in the Research Expeditions Butterfly Rainforest of the McGuire Center Staff of the McGuire Center participate in and The Rainforest is a favorite field trip destination for school groups around lead research expeditions to remote parts of the Florida. Teachers usually develop a curriculum segment around their world. Recently, members of staff and students visit. It also serves as a living laboratory for many university students and travelled to Russia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Brazil, visiting scientists. University classes study animal behavior, ecosystems, Venezuela, Bahamas, Costa Rica, Malaysia, photography, botany, horticulture, landscape architecture, and plant Colombia, and Nepal. A number of interna- medicine. Graduate student Christian Salcedo spent evenings for three tional collaborations are ongoing. Among these months in the Rainforest observing Zebra Longwing roosting behavior, and are a Lepidoptera faunal survey of the Hunstein Matthew Lehnert studied garamas there. In the adjacent Rearing Mountain range in Papua New Guinea and proj- Laboratory, artificial diets as well as host plant and nectar source nutritional ects on Lepidoptera of the West Indies, Ecuador components are explored. and Mexico. The Rainforest employs eight full In 2006, Paul Goldstein participated in a Rus- and part-time employees. Atten- sian-American expedition to the Far East; Keith dence was highest during the first Willmott spent three months in the cloud forests year of operations (130,000), with of Ecuador and traversed Andean countries with numbers of visitors subsequently sta- a series of lectures and workshops. Andy War- bilizing to average 100,000 annually. It houses over 430 species of plants, ren was awarded a fellowship from the Mexican 1500-2000 individual butterflies of government to spend part of the year working in over 100 species, tropical fish, and the field in that country. birds.

To continue receiving this free newsletter please McGuire Center News write to the address, fax, or e-mail below, or call Editorial Board: 352-392-5894 Andrei Sourakov Thomas C. Emmel UF McGuire Center for Lepidoptera Jaret Daniels and Biodiversity Jacqueline Miller University of Florida Christine Eliazar Design: Florida Museum of Natural History Andrei Sourakov P.O.Box 112710 Photography: Gainesville , FL 32611 Andrei Sourakov fax (352) 392-0479 Thomas C. Emmel e-mail: [email protected] Court Whelan

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Center, on a field trip in Brazil in trip field a on Center, J.D. Turner, a research associate of the McGuire McGuire the of associate research a Turner, J.D.