Postglacial Invasion Routes of Canadian Arctic Butterflies

• Published in: The Canadian Entomologist
• Main Author: Freeman, T. N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1964
• Subjects: Insect Science; Molecular Biology; Physiology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Structural Biology; Arctic; Yukon; Baffin Island; Canada; Southampton Island; Baffin
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/ent96116-1; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0008347X00067900

Several thousand specimens of arctic butterflies were accumulated in the Canadian Northern Insect Survey. When the distributions of the various species were recorded and plotted on a map, some evidence appeared that these insects entered Canada in postglacial times from the northwest, and from the s...