Investigating Concordance among Genetic Data, Subspecies Circumscriptions and Hostplant Use in the Nymphalid Butterfly Polygonia faunus
Figure 1
Subspecies of Polygonia faunus and distribution map.
Shown are representative photographs of the Polygonia faunus subspecies: a) ‘faunus’, 8 miles northwest of Fraserdale, Ontario; b) ‘smythi’, Cooper Creek Wildlife Management Area, 11 miles southeast of Blairsville, Georgia; c) ‘arcticus’, Bug Creek, 15 miles southwest of Aklavik, NWT, Canada; d) ‘hylas’, 0.25 miles west of Turquoise Lake Reservoir, Leadville, Colorado; and e), ‘rusticus’, Lewis Creek, Sugar Pines, California. Fresh vouchers of subspecies ‘fulvescens’ were unavailable for this study. The distribution map of each subspecies is illustrated in f). Diamonds indicate the location of the specimens shown in a-e). A blend zone exists at the ‘rusticus’/’arcticus’ interface, and probably at the ‘faunus’/’arcticus’ and ‘arcticus’/’hylas’ interfaces (not illustrated).