Tokrat, z molj

Here are a few more images from my recent northern road trip, this time from western Idaho. Right outside the town of New Meadows were fields of flowers thick with life. It was some of the best day collecting I’ve done in years, and fellow road tripper Peter Jump and I discovered this population of Adela flammeusella. This represents a likely state record for Idaho and possibly the eastern most population known for this species. They are supposedly associated with Owl’s Clover (some now reassigned to Castilleja), but I don’t recall ever seeing any at this location. I usually notice this plant whenever I’m in the field because it is the host to a handful of other interesting leps.

Ena neprijetno značaj rodu Adela je homogenost genitalij. Za vsako entomolog tam je par za tečaj za uporabo morfologije genitalij kot obilice znakov najbolj uporabnih pri ugotavljanju vrst. Microleps so pogosto najbolj enostavno razlikujejo po disekciji, in nekaj skupin je treba razkosanih celo priti do rodu! Ampak tudi presenetljivo drugačen Adela so skoraj identični notranje. Namesto, noga bo ugasnila, da se DNA barcoded. Verjetno se ni nič preveč zanimiva, vendar so bili Stranger stvari znano, da se zgodi. Vsaj bo informativen, da vedo, kaj lahko genetska divergenca biti po območju vrste.

Adela flammeusella

Chlosyne žogo blackmorei – Severna Checkerspot

Lycaena Editha – Edith’s Copper