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80 Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society
Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 35(1), 1981, 80
THE FIRST CAPTURE OF APPIAS DRUSILLA (PIERIDAE) IN COLORADO
On 5 August 1979, D. L. Barlow took a battered female specimen of Appias drusilla neumoegenii Skinner in a mountain valley near the town of Santa Maria, Park Co., Colorado, at elev. 8400 ft (2560 m). This tropical butterfly breeds in the extreme southern parts of the United States, and adults are prone to long range wanderings; they regularly occur in areas far north of their normal breeding grounds. Strays have been reported from as far north as Nebraska, and there is a sight record by F. M. Brown from El Paso Co., Colorado, on 7 July 1941 (1942, Entomol. News, 53: 82-83). This is, however, the first reported capture (Fig. 1) of this species in the state, and only the second record from the entire Rocky Mountain region north of the 35th parallel.
Peter L. Eades, 1627 5th Street, Boulder, Colorado 80302.
Fig. 1. Specimen of Appias drusilla captured in Park Co., Colorado, on 5 August 1979.
Date of Issue (Vol. 35, No. 1): 7 July 1981