Subject: First sightings: spruce bog (Fairbanks, AK)

From: Kenelm Philip <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 23:52:04 -0800

In a spruce bog in taiga, near Fairbanks, the following species:

        27 May: _Erebia disa_ (flies in odd-numbered years)
        30 May: _Carterocepahalus palaemon_, _Clossiana chariclea_ (a bog
                population that flies in odd-numbered years), _Oeneis
                _jutta_ (flies in odd-numbered years)
        31 May  _Euchloe ausonides_, _Clossiana frigga_.

The bog population of _Clossiana chariclea_ is a taxonomic anomaly. It is
clearly differentiated in facies from _C. titania_, which flies later in
the summer in the same bog. Tundra populations of _chariclea_ produce adults
in late summer, flying with other late species: _Boloria napaea_, _Colias
hecla_, _C. nastes_.

                                                Ken Philip
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