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Masters: Mitoura in Kansas
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Vol. 21, no. 2
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A TRANSPLANTED COLONY OF MITOURA GRYNEUS (LYCAENIDAE) IN KANSAS
During 1956 or 1957 several small specimen trees of Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana, Linn.) were transplanted from the vicinity of Camdenton, Camden County, Missouri to Johnson County, Kansas. These trees were planted in the general vicinity of the caretaker's house at Camp Towanyak near Lake Quivira in the western part of the county. Apparently the transplanted trees carried with them a small colony of Mitoura gryneus (Hubner) that has survived for at least eight years.
M. gryneus was captured here 26-IV-1963 and 21-IV-1965, one was sighted 3-VII-1964 and there are earlier records back to April of 1958. The normal range of Mitoura gryneus in Missouri coincides with the Red Cedar Belt extending from the southeast through the southern and eastern Ozarks and into central Missouri. If the colony in Johnson County was established by strays, they would have had to travel one hundred miles or better in an unlikely northwestward direction. It is more likely that some individuals were introduced with the trees while in immature stages.
The only previous record of gryneus from Kansas was recorded by Field (1938 J1 and involved six specimens taken in July. These were caught by E. A. Popenoe in Riley County many years ago. As Riley County is a distance northwest of Johnson County and even farther away from the Cedar Belt, the Popenoe specimens probably represent a similar case of transplantation. Native populations of Mitoura gryneus might be found in Bourbon and Crawford counties, Kansas which are barely reached by a diluted part of the Cedar Belt.—John H. Masters, 121 Birch, Mathomedi, Minnesota.
1 Field, W. D., 1938. A Manual of the Butterflies and Skippers of Kansas. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas.
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Book Notice
DIE MACROLEPIDOPTEREN-FAUNA DES GARDASEEGEBIETES [Macro-lepidoptera of the region of Lake Garda]. By Josef Wolfsberger—Memorie del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona. 385 pp., 39 maps, 16 pis. Verona 1966. Price 4.000 Lit.
This is the first comprehensive published work on the lepidopterous fauna of the region of Lake Garda [Lago di Garda] in northern Italy. This study includes the environments of the lake and the valley of the river Sarco. The author recorded 1139 species of Macrolepidoptera of which 26 have their northern limit of occurrence in this district. The distributions of the most important species from a faunistic standpoint are shown on 29 maps. Numerous biotopes and imagines are figured on 16 plates.
This new work is very important for all lepidopterists studying the fauna of the Alps. The book is available at the Museum of Natural History in Verona, Italy [Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona].—Josef Moucha, National Museum, Dept. of Entomology, Praha, Czechoslovakia.
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