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7 December 2023 Duskywings (Erynnis: Hesperiidae) of Roxborough State Park, Colorado USA: Possible Weather and Biotic Effects on Abundance 2018–2022
S. Mark Nelson, Marc Epstein, S. Heinz
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Possible weather and biological effects on the abundance of duskywings (Erynnis Schrank, 1804: Hesperiidae) at Roxborough State Park, Douglas County, Colorado are described over a five-year period (2018–2022). Of nine species reported from the park, four were consistently documented in all five years. Anomalous weather (temperature metrics and precipitation) in the summer of 2020 (and to a lesser degree in 2021), were coincident with abundance declines in E. telemachus Burns, 1960 in 2021 and 2022. Other relatively abundant Erynnis species demonstrated similar 2021 trends, however, E. brizo Boisduval & LeConte, [1837], E. afranius Lintner, 1878, and E. horatius Scudder & Burgess, 1870 all had relatively strong recoveries in abundance by 2022. Possible leaf palatability effects caused by an outbreak of tent caterpillars (Malacosoma californicum Packard, 1864, Family: Lasiocampidae) may have positively affected E. horatius second flight abundance in 2022.

S. Mark Nelson, Marc Epstein, and S. Heinz "Duskywings (Erynnis: Hesperiidae) of Roxborough State Park, Colorado USA: Possible Weather and Biotic Effects on Abundance 2018–2022," The Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 77(4), 235-242, (7 December 2023). https://doi.org/10.18473/lepi.77i4.a4
Received: 24 April 2023; Accepted: 17 July 2023; Published: 7 December 2023
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KEYWORDS
Colorado
Erynnis spp.
Malacosoma effects
Roxborough State Park
weather effects
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