New species records for butterflies (Lepidoptera) on Herschel Island, Yukon, Canada, with notes on natural history

• Published in: The Canadian Entomologist
• Main Authors: Leung, Maria C., Reid, Donald G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2013
• Subjects: Insect Science; Molecular Biology; Physiology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Structural Biology; Arctic; Yukon; Canada; Herschel Island; Herschel; Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/tce.2013.15; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0008347X13000151

Abstract Comparisons of past and current butterfly species distributions are being used to gauge the effects of climatic change in various parts of the world. Historic butterfly records from Herschel Island, Yukon, Canada, presented an opportunity to do such a comparison in an Arctic tundra region k...