A NEW RACE OF PLEBEIUS SCUDDERI FROM CAPE BRETON ISLAND. (LEPID. LYCAENIDAE)

While collecting in the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia early in July 1936, Dr. J. McDunnough and the writer collected a series of more than one hundred specimens of a P. scudderi form, commonly flying in a sphagnum bog about one and one half miles north of Baddeck on Highway No. 5, and which we t...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:The Canadian Entomologist
Main Author: Freeman, T. N.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1938
Subjects:
Insect Science
Molecular Biology
Physiology
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Structural Biology
Breton Island
Newfoundland
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/ent7061-3
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0008347X00097789
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Summary:While collecting in the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia early in July 1936, Dr. J. McDunnough and the writer collected a series of more than one hundred specimens of a P. scudderi form, commonly flying in a sphagnum bog about one and one half miles north of Baddeck on Highway No. 5, and which we thought might possibly be the race aster , described by Edwards from the Cape Race region in southern Newfoundland.

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