{"id":23052,"date":"2024-08-05T08:18:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T15:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23052"},"modified":"2024-08-05T08:18:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T15:18:18","slug":"2024-august-5-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23052","title":{"rendered":"2024 August 5 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 August 5 morning
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Here are some photographs from yesterday\u2019s Butterfly Walk.<\/p>\n

\"\"Western Pondhawk\u00a0 Erythemis collocata\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Axiza Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"California Ringlet Coenonympha californica\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae – Satyrinae) Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Complicated Essay on a Complicated Butterfly<\/u> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(Jeremy Tatum)
\n<\/u>\u00a0\u00a0 The butterfly above, photographed by Aziza at Island View Beach, is part of an enormous assemblage of similar butterflies stretching across North America and Europe, sometimes referred to as the \u201ctullia <\/em>complex\u201d.\u00a0 \u00a0We have usually referred to it as a \u201cringlet\u201d with or without some preceding adjective.\u00a0 The huge Holarctic complex has many different variations, some clinal, some disjunct, most with a few to many \u201cringlet\u201d markings on the wings, although the ones we get here in the Victoria area seem not to have even a trace of any ringlet mark.\u00a0 (Let us know if you find any with a trace of a ringlet.)<\/p>\n

From this year, 2024, I am trying to follow the 2023 Annotated Taxonomic Checklist\u00a0 <\/em>(ATC<\/em>) edited by Pohl and Nanz.\u00a0 The ATC <\/em>treats most North American populations as a single species Coenonympha california<\/em>, of which it lists 18 named subspecies.\u00a0 Whether all of these are genuine subspecies or whether some of them are \u201cforms\u201d I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 I think our subspecies is Coenonympha<\/em> california insulana<\/em>.\u00a0 The ATC <\/em>does not deal with English names, but I propose on this site to call our butterfly the California Ringlet<\/strong> (in spite of its absence of ringlet marks).<\/p>\n

If we follow the ATC<\/em>, then, C. california<\/em> is specifically distinct from C. tullia<\/em>, which is known today in the U.K. as the Large Heath (but at one time called there the Small Ringlet).\u00a0 There are apparently a few populations of genuine C. tullia<\/em> in North America, but not here.\u00a0 The ATC<\/em> also lists a third species, C. haydenii<\/em>.\u00a0 North American records of the Small Heath, C. pamphilus<\/em> are apparently erroneous, this being strictly an Old World species.\u00a0 As one further slight complication, the butterfly known in the UK as The Ringlet is a quite different species, in a different genus altogether, Aphantopus.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2024 August 5 morning Here are some photographs from yesterday\u2019s Butterfly Walk. Western Pondhawk\u00a0 Erythemis collocata\u00a0 (Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Axiza Cooper Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides\u00a0 (Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper California Ringlet Coenonympha californica\u00a0 (Lep.: Nymphalidae – Satyrinae) Aziza Cooper   Complicated Essay on a Complicated Butterfly \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(Jeremy Tatum) \u00a0\u00a0 The butterfly above, photographed by Aziza at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23055,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23052\/revisions\/23055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}