Insectifera

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Contents
4- Summary
4- My own reflections
5- The background to the first Swedish scientific sailing round the world, 1851–1853
16- Extreme sex patches – androconia and antennae
20- Colias ponteni in the collection of BMNH. Where do they come from? Who have collected them and where and when?
22- Two new Colias ponteni and a pupa!
24- Hawaii or Port Famine? Which locality is most likely to be an objective assessment?
25- Colias ponteni – a sensitive “primitive species”. Is it extinct?
26- Cause of likely extinction
28- IRMS (Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer) isotope investigations
29- What more can suggest that Samuel Pontén’s butterflies really were taken in Hawaii?
30- Can Port Famine or the surrounding areas be the right place for Colias ponteni?
34- Collection on Oahu
37- Is there more that suggests that Samuel Pontén found his Colias butterflies during this excursion on Oahu near Honolulu?
38 The background to my studies
39 Is there something that argues against Port Famine as a collection site for Colias ponteni?
39 Is it likely that the butterflies exist or may have been on Mt Tarn just south of Port Famine on the Strait of Magellan?
41 Are there any other possibilities to find out where the butterflies have been collected? Pollen studies?
42 San Francisco Area in Western California
42 DNA-studies?
43 New DNA-studies
43 More about Port Famine
44 My friends go out to find Colias ponteni!
44 An alternative hypothesis that could suggest Port Famine
45 Could there be any other alternatives to the Strait of Magellan or Hawaii?
45 Frigate Eugenie’s Route
48 Back to other places visited during the frigate Eugenie’s Voyage where the butterfly could have possibly been collected
49 Valparaiso
50 Back to the question of The Strait of Magellan – could Samuel Pontén have bought the butterflies?
51 Other options along the Strait of Magellan
52 New theory (Excerpt from Insectifera in 1997)
59 Hiroshi Hara
61 Daniel Rosengren is hired
75 The zoological findings during the expedition have been questioned by “experts”
79 Summary
82 Hawaii or Port Famine? What factors speak for and against these sites?
87 Conclusion – Most likely scenario
88 Thanks!
91 Literature
92 Footnotes
93 Appendix 1 – Wallengren´s description of Colias ponteni in Kungliga Svenska FREGATTEN EUGENIES RESA omkring jorden
93 Appendix 2 – Berger´s Palaeocolias, type-genitalia: Colias ponteni
94 Appendix 3 – Christer Hägg´s book about the Frigate Eugenie’s Sailing around the World
95 Appendix 4 – Christer Hägg´s letters to Göran Sjöberg
98 Appendix 5 – Excerpt from Daniel Rosengren´s travel story
100 Appendix 6 – A lucky evening on October 12th, 2000 when the Colias ponteni-pupa was found!

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2 – The Association
3 – Editor’s Pages: The Year 2001, Colias ponteni, Testeboån, Ant Hills, Mosquitoes, Spring Meeting with Sten Åberg, etc.
12 – Hans Degler: Parnassius bremeri
13 – Gunnar Bakken: Spider Drama
15 – Ulf Nylander: Bupristis splendens in Greece
22 – Call to Action! Save the Rainforest
24 – Lena von Strokirch: Large Elephant Hawk-moth
29 – Ingemar Frycklund: The Komosse Meadow
46 – C. Källander: This Year’s Butterfly Discoveries from Gästrikland 2000
60 – Table of Contents

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2 – The Association
3 – Editor’s Pages
7 – The Black-veined White (Aporia crataegi), Gästrikland’s Provincial Insect
8 – Clas Källander: This Year’s Butterfly Discoveries from Gästrikland 1999
21 – Annual Meeting, March 12, 2000
23 – Field Course: Insects on Gotland
24 – Karl Källander: Butterfly Memories from South America
25 – 12th Swedish Entomological Meeting
26 – Membership Directory
27 – Table of Contents

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2 – The Association
3 – Editor’s Pages
5 – 9th Swedish Entomological Meeting in Gävle
6 – Insectifera and Membership in the Association Going Forward
6 – Insect Course on Gotland
7 – “New Day Butterflies in Sweden”
10 – Clas Källander: This Year’s Butterfly Discoveries from Gästrikland 1998
23 – Johan Höjer: Butterfly Report from Gästrikland 1998
30 – Karl Källander: Butterflies on the Roof of the World

32 – Ulf Nylander: Latest News from ICZN (International Code of Zoological Nomenclature)
33 – Ulf Nylander: Supplement No. 1, Curculionidae (Weevils) from the Philippines

34 – Gianfranco Samas: Debate Contribution Regarding Ownership of Holotypes
35 – Table of Contents

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2 – The Association
3 – Editor’s Pages
7 – Clas Källander: This Year’s Butterfly Discoveries from Gästrikland 1997
22 – Johan Höjer: Butterfly Report from Gästrikland 1997
31 – Göran Sjöberg: Butterfly Watching with Binoculars
38 – Ulf Nylander: What is the Name of the Beetle in Insectifera 1997?
45 – Ulf Nylander: What is the Name of the Beetle in Insectifera 1996?
46 – Ulf Nylander: Literature Service for Members
47 – Ulf Nylander: Information on New Zoological Nomenclature
48 – Ulf Nylander: Beetles of the Österberg Wall
50 – Göran Sjöberg: African Butterfly Meeting 1997
53 – Göran Sjöberg: An Exciting Small Butterfly Book
55 – Göran Sjöberg: New Butterfly Competition 1998, Larvae
56 – Göran Sjöberg: Butterfly Competition 1997
58 – Göran Sjöberg: Insects in Literature 8, C.B. Gaunitz
60 – Association Activities 1997
62 – Ahead of the Summer Entomological Meeting in Gävle 1998
63 – Species Fact Sheets for Butterflies Associated with Grinduga-Trosken Area Before the Summer Meeting Excursion on July 11, 1997
104 – Göran Sjöberg: Landscape Insects
106 – Membership Directory
108 – Grinduga Village, Documentation
108 – Engeltofta, Directions to the Location
109 – Maps of the Grinduga-Trosken Area
110 – Table of Contents

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2 – The Association
3 – Editor’s Pages
6 – Clas Källander: This Year’s Butterfly Discoveries from Gästrikland 1996
20 – Johan Höjer: Butterfly Report from Gästrikland 1995
29 – Johan Höjer: Discovery of the Painted Lady (Cynthia cardui) in 1996
31 – Göran Sjöberg: The Painted Ladies on Our Earth
38 – Guldvingepriset (Copper Award) to Hans Lundberg
40 – Ragnar Östlund: About Butterflies in the Gävle Area
47 – Jan Isidorsson: Iridescence
51 – Lars Sjölin: Dance Macabre
52 – Åsa Eriksson: Everything Can Be Sold, Including Butterflies
22 – Göran Sjöberg: Lena’s Puppet Theater with Butterfly Summer – “Nettle Butterfly Nisse and His Friends”
58 – Claes Eliasson: The Trip to China
64 – Gunnar Bakken: “Svarta Rumpan” is Here – Finally!
66 – Insects in Literature 7, Verner Aspenström
68 – Göran Sjöberg: Colias ponteni, A Remarkable Hidden Gem
103 – Competition: “Ulf Nylander’s Beetles”
104 – “Butterfly Wing Scale Competition”
105 – New Butterfly Competition
106 – “Butterflies of the World”
– Göran’s Impossible (?) Scale
– A Masterpiece by Bernard D’Abrera
108 – Table of Contents

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2 – The Association, Logo Competition, Submission Deadline
3 – Editor’s Pages
8 – SEF (Swedish Entomological Society) Information: IT, Entomological Meetings, Landscape Insects, etc.
10 – Environmental Grant Awarded to the Association
11 – Johan Höjer: Butterfly Report from Gästrikland 1995
18 – Nils Westlin: A Day to Remember
20 – Advertisements
21 – Do You Have Moths at Home?
22 – Lena von Strokirch: Butterfly Diary, March 25 – July 14, 1995
26 – Insects in Literature 6
27 – Gunnar Bakken: Harvestmen (Opiliones)
29 – Clas Källander: This Year’s Butterfly Discoveries from Gästrikland 1995
41 – Competition: “Ulf Nylander’s Beetle”
42 – Göran Sjöberg: New National Park in Gästrikland
45 – Claes Eliasson: The Year’s Prize Moth
50 – Johan Höjer: What Do We Know About the Chalk Around Gävle?
55 – Insect Competition: “Göran’s Impossible (?) Scale”
56 – Göran Sjöberg: A Portrait Gallery
58 – The Association’s Autumn Meeting 1995
60 – Table of Contents

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2 – The Association + Yngve Christiernsson
3 – Editor’s Pages
6 – Protect the Trout Area
10 – Distribution Maps, Red-listed Butterflies, etc.
28 – Distribution Maps, Red-listed Vascular Plants, etc.
36 – Ulf Nylander: EU and Biological Diversity
46 – Ingemar Frycklund: Go Out and Search for Sacks!
52 – 1995 Butterfly Book: Die Tagfalter der Türkei
53 – Clas Källander: 1994 Butterfly Discoveries in Gästrikland
62 – Valuable Nature in Gävle
63 – Hoverflies, A New Study Subject
64 – Johan Höjer: Day Butterflies in Gästrikland 1994
67 – Datasheet: Day Butterflies
68 – Spring Butterfly 1995
70 – Göran Sjöberg: Butterfly Watching
74 – Lisa Ahrnberg: Small Insects as House Guests
89 – The Association’s Spring Meeting, May 29, 1995
94 – Appeal to the Association’s Members
95 – Insects in Literature, 5: Di Leva
96 – Results of the Competition in Insectifera 2:2
107 – New Competition
108 – Variegated Leaves 1911: Insects as Decorative Pieces
112 – Book Review: Day Butterflies of China
116 – 5th Swedish Entomological Meeting 1994
117 – Gästrikland’s Red-listed Butterflies
118 – Table of Contents

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2 – The Association + 6th Entomological Meeting
3 – Editor’s Page

8 – Clas Källander: Butterflies of Eggegrund26 – Peter Ståhl: Vegetation of Eggegrund
15 – Johan Höjer: Dragonflies of Gästrikland
30 – Krister Frid: Autumn Butterfly
31 – Wolf Johansson/ Göran Sjöberg: Small Insects
33 – Göran Sjöberg: Four Old Butterfly Pictures
37 – Göran Sjöberg: The Striped Amazon: Rondônia
38 – Entomological Journal, Time to Subscribe for 1995
39 – Göran Sjöberg: Book Review: Day Butterflies of Northwest Asia
43 – Göran Ripler: The Year’s Prize Moth
47 – Competition: Which Insect Is This?
48 – Clas Källander: Missing Persons Notice
49 – The Association’s Autumn Meeting, Dec 8, 1994

52 – Ulf Granström: House Crickets in Hofors
53 – Göran Sjöberg: Book Review: Swallowtails of America
56 – Johan Höjer: Dragonflies of Gästrikland
66 – Gunnar Bakken: New Dragonfly for Gästrikland
67 – Räs Lennström: The Butterfly
68 – Ulf Nylander: Book Review: Lucanid Beetles of the World
69 – Ulf Nylander: Book Review: Cerambycoid Larvae of Europe and Soviet Union

70 – Gefle Dagblad 1959: Ragnar Östlund and the Sea
71 – Bo Setterlind: The Butterfly
72 – Holarctic Lepidoptera, New Journal
73 – Butterfly Watching, Course Spring 1995
74 – Table of Contents

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Contents
2 – INSECTIFERA
2 – Fifth Swedish Entomological Meeting, June 15 – 17, 1994
3 – The Editor’s Reflections
5 – The Association’s contacts regarding UA4 Johan Höjer
6 – Eco-bed for the butterfly Harry Martinson
7 – Letter to Banverket, May 3, 1993 (by G. Sjöberg, C. Källander, N. Ryrholm)
11 – One of the Spiders’ Secret Mysteries is Now Solved – Gunnar Bakken
12 – Copper Award 1993 (Guldvingepriset)
14 – Gravedigger Award (Dödgrävarpriset)
14 – Spider Barbecue – Could it be a Web? – Gunnar Bakken
15 – PRESS STOP: Latest News from Banverket
15 – Ulf Nylander’s Trip to Crete
20 – When? How? Why? – Ulf Swahn
22 – Excellent Gift
23 – Being a Lepidopterist – Göran Sjöberg
25 – Gästrikland in Entomological Journal, Part 2 – Johan Höjer
27 – Butterfly Discoveries from the “Chalk Area Southeast of Gävle” 1993 – Clas Källander
33 – The Association’s Activities in 1993
36 – The E4 Alternative – Krister Fridh
38 – On How to Limit Your Research Area – Räs Lennström
39 – Special Study on the Peacock Butterfly (Nässelfjäril) – Erika Bergström
45 – Nationally Significant Nature Conservation Area, Value: < 30 Seconds?
46 – The Board’s Appeal to Banverket
48 – Contents

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2 – INSECTIFERA, New Entomological Journal – The Board
3 – Gästrikland’s Entomological Society – The Board
5 – House Cricket Disturbs the Night’s Sleep in Österfärnebo – Ulf Nylander
5 – Interesting Flat Bark Beetle in the Aspen Wood Stack – Ulf Nylander
6 – It Was Better Before… Or Was It? DDT Spread in Gästrikland’s Forests – Göran Sjöberg/Expressen
7 – The Association’s First Excursion to the Islands – Johan Höjer, Göran Sjöberg, Clas Källander
8 – Butterflies in Our Meadows and Pastures, etc. – Göran Sjöberg
19 – Spiders in Gästrikland, Part 1 – Gunnar Bakken
20 – Has the Earth Lost a Swallowtail? Graphium levassori on Grand Comoro – Göran Sjöberg
21 – Gästrikland in Entomological Journal 1920 – 1992 – Johan Höjer
28 – New Additions to Gästrikland’s Butterfly Fauna 1990 – 1992 – Clas Källander
34 – Nordic Entomological Meeting 1994 – Societas Entomologica Fennica, Åbo University, Göran Sjöberg
35 – Statutes of Gästrikland’s Entomological Society
36 – Contents