TROPICALLEPIDOPTERA

NEWSNo.4 December 1990

TO OUR READERS

The year 1990 has seen a major event come to pass forour Association, namely the publication of the first twoissues of Tropical Lepidoptera, our new full color journalfor popular and scientific articles on tropical and subtropicalLepidoptera of the world. Both were published in Decem­ber 1990 and the first issue has been sent to members aswell as other lepidopterists worldwide to solicit newsubscribers. Association members will receive the secondissue with this newsletter. In 1991 the journal and newslet­ter are expected to be on a regular schedule, with journalissues in May and November and newsletter issues everyquarter beginning in March.

The first two issues of Tropical Lepidoptera included169 color figures spread over 92 pages of text, not countingthe full color covers. The only journals with a similarcoverage of full color are those such as Natural Historywhich have a large national circulation. The Associationcan produce this new dimension for Lepidoptera publica­tions with your continued support, both in memberships andin submitted articles. Actual production of the journal ispossible because of modem computers, the availability oflocal low-cost color separations of the highest quality, andreasonable printing, developments that were not availableonly a few years ago. Your comments and suggestions forimprovement are always welcome.

It is my hope the journal will stimulate understanding ofthe tropical and subtropical faunas, and thus help in theirconservation and study. These are the primary goals of theAssociation, and your support will foster this.

We welcome news items for the newsletter and hope itcan become a forum for notes, letters, notices, and news ontropical and subtropical Lepidoptera; advertising is alsoaccepted. Please submit items for publication in the Newsat least one month prior to the next issue date.

I. B. HeppnerExecutive Director

PUBLICATION DATES: TROPICAL LEPIDOPTERAVolume 1. No.1: 17 December 1990. No.2: 31 December 1990.

ANNUAL MEETING 1991

Association for Tropical LepidopteraSouthern Lepidopterists' Society

April 5-7, 1991Gainesville, Florida

The first annual meeting of the Association for TropicalLepidoptera will be held in Gainesville, Florida. togetherwith the 1991 spring meeting of the Southern Lepidopter­ists' Society. The Florida State Collection of Arthropods(FSCA) will be acting as host for the meeting. All meetingsessions will be held at the Doyle Conner Auditorium.Both the FSCA and the new Department of Entomology,University of Florida, building nearby will be available forvisiting on Friday, April 5. Further details will be sent toall members as soon as the program and speakers have beenfmalized. Tentative plans include a Friday evening wel­come session, Saturday morning and afternoon sessionsdivided between the Association and the Southern Lepidop­terists' Society, a Saturday evening banquet, and Sundaysessions or collecting trips. Gainesville offers a number ofinteresting collecting sites nearby and others within a 1hour drive. A list of recommended hotels will be sent priorto the meeting to those indicating intent to come to themeeting on their 1991 membership dues renewal form.Three state parks with camping facilities and cabins arewithin 45 minutes of Gainesville as well. We look forwardto seeing you in Gainesville!

CALL FOR PAPERS: Interested participants are kindlyasked to submit titles of submitted papers, and the amountof time needed, prior to February 28, 1991.

MEMBERSHIP LISTThe 1990 list of members will be issued in the next

newsletter after all Charter Memberships have been re­ceived prior to the cutoff date of March 31, 1991.

Executive Director: 1. B. Heppner

Editor: J. B. Heppner

Frequency: Quarterly (March, June, September, December)

Telephone: (904) 372-3505 FAX: (904) 372-2501

1991 LEPIDOPTERA EXPEDITIONS

Holbrook Travel has announced its 1991 schedule ofLepidoptera expeditions to various tropical areas of theworld, led by Dr. Thomas C. Emmel of the Division ofLepidoptera Research, University of Florida.WESTERN KENYA - August 10-24, 1991

The lush rain forest and teeming savannas of extremewestern Kenya, East Africa, provide a unique destinationfor the August 10-24 expedition - the first Holbrook tripspecifically for lepidopterists to this part of Africa. Morethan a week will be spent in the Kakanega area of extremewestern Kenya, at the northeastern comer of Lake Victoriain Western Nyanza province. Over 6,000 feet above sealevel, the highland rain forest here provides a rich habitatfor butterflies, where the Rev. J. S. T. Woolmer foundalmost 200 different species and photographed 100 speciesduring a recent safari. The group will stay at a famoushostel in the forest here and have rich collecting both in thesurrounding forest and on day-trips out to Kadera Forestand the margins of Lake Victoria. On the recent Woolmerexpedition, one of Africa's largest swallowtails, Papiliolormieri (fully 13cm in wingspan), was found feeding bythe roadside in the early morning. Many other swallowtailspecies such as Bromius chrapowski, along with Charaxesspecies, Acraea admatha, Cymothoe lurida, Euphaedrapreussi, Catacroptera cloanthe, abundant hairstreaks, andother lycaenids may be found here. The last week of theexpedition will be spent in the Masai Mara Game Reserve,staying at Sekenani Camp and taking walking and microbussafaris, and also spending two nights by Lake Naivasha andat the famous Ark Lodge in the Aberdare Mountains fordramatic game viewing. Flights from New York to Nairobiand back will be by Air Zambia, via Lusaka in WestAfrica, so that no flights will go through Europe or theMiddle East area. A spectacular trip is expected for bothphotography and collecting.MALAYSIA - May 24 - June 7, 1991

On May 24 an expedition is planned to Malaysia, wheremore than 1,000 species of butterflies are found. At leasta week will be spent in the region of the Cameron High­lands at over 2,500 feet elevation, where the weather ispleasant and outstanding butterfly and moth diversityoccurs. Especially to be found here are Rajah Brooke'sBirdwing (Trogonoptera brookiana), which sometimesgathers in numbers along the banks of forest streams.Several other birdwings in the genus Troides will also beencountered, as will be many pierids, other swallowtails,danaids, a rich variety of satyrids, a wonderful variety ofnymphalids, and some truly spectacular riodinids and long­tailed hairstreaks. Besides the rich butterfly and mothfauna in the highlands, as well as the lowland areas (nearTaiping in the rain forest, and on Penang Island on top ofa high mountain on the island), a host of interesting people,

John B. Heppner (USA)J. Donald Lafontaine (Canada)Gerardo Lamas (peru)Claude Lemaire (France)Olaf H. H. Mielke (Brazil)

Lawrence E. Gilbert (USA)Lowell N. Harris (USA)Jose Herrera G. (Chile)Daniel H. Janzen (USA)Jorge Llorente B. (Mexico)Scott E. Miller (USA)Eugene G. Munroe (Canada)Jozef Rawwski (poland)Arthur M. Shapiro (USA)M. Alma Solis (USA)Hsiau-Yue Wang (Taiwan)Allen M. Young (USA)

Yutaka Arita (Japan)Hans Bilnziger (Thailand)H. S. Barlow (Malaysia)Emilio Berio (Italy)Ronald Boender (USA)C. B. Cottrell (South Africa)Charles V. Covell, Jr. (USA)U. Dall'Asta (Belgium)Philip 1. DeVries (USA)Edward W. Diehl (Indonesia)Julian P. Donahue (USA)Boyce A. Drummond, ill (USA)

NOTETROPICAL LEPIDOPTERA SEPARATES: Articles from TropicalLepidoptera can now be purchased for $1 for the first page and 50¢ foreach additional page. Specify author, volume, and page numbers whenordering.

TRAVEL1991 Holbrook Travel Lepidoptera Expeditions:

Mar 13-24 Rondonia, BrazilApr 17-28 Rondonia, BrazilMay 24-Jun 7 MalaysiaAug 10-24 Western KenyaNov 13-24 Rondonia, Brazil

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A series of special lepidopterist expeditions to Rondonia,in western Brazil, are scheduled in 1991. As a result offive successful group expeditions to the extraordinarilyproductive rain forest in this area, the Rondonia area hasbeen shown to be the most incredibly diverse area in theworld for butterflies. It is now estimated that there are over1,600 species of butterflies that occur within several squaremiles of rain forest here, including approximately 220species of metalmarks in the family Riodinidae alone, atleast 10 species of Morpho (including M. achilles, aega,anaxibia, cisseis, deidamia, menelaus, helenor, hercules,rhetenor, etc.), Agrias, Prepona, Nessaea, Antirrhea,Caerois, Baeotus, Callicore (six species), at least a dozenspecies of Anaea and Memphis, at least eight species ofHamadryas, eight brilliant Eunica species, etc. (see thearticle entitled "The Tropical Rain Forest Butterfly Faunaof Rondonia, Brazil: Species Diversity and Conservation,"by Thomas C. Emmel and George T. Austin, in TropicalLepidoptera, Vol. 1, No.1, 1990). This is the perfect tripfor those desiring to spend their entire time at one site andwork out from a central location, namely, the FazendaRancho Grande, where you may expect reasonably comfort­able cabin-type accomodations, widely spaced across theranch grounds with ample room for black-lighting using ACelectricity provided by their 7-KW generator. Outstandingfood and hospitality are a hallmark of this facility. Over 17Km of new and old rain forest trails on the Fazenda RanchoGrande are readily accessible by foot from the lodge area,and numerous other trails out as far as 20 Km or more areavailable by vehicle daily. Rondonia provides a rareopportunity to see some of the greatest Amazonian rainforest areas left, a rapidly disappearing treasure house ofanimal and plant species that will never be replicated onearth again.

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