PENDIDIKAN BIOLOGI UNPAR: Pholisora catullus

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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Common Name:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">  <i>Common Sooty-Wing</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Perhaps we should change the
common name to "The Formerly-Common Sooty Wing," since this little
glossy-black butterfly with a white "face" is now teetering on the
edge of regional extinction. On our <acronym><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; text-decoration: none;">transect</span></acronym>,
it was formerly found at all the low-elevation sites but as of 2005 was still
present only in West Sacramento. As recently as a decade before this was a
"junk <acronym><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; text-decoration: none;">species</span></acronym>,"
breeding in vegetable gardens and vacant lots on <acronym><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; text-decoration: none;">weedy</span></acronym>
Pigweeds (<acronym><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; text-decoration: none;">genus</span></acronym>
<i>Amaranthus</i>) and occasionally on the closely-related Cockscomb in flower
gardens. There are plenty of hosts around - perhaps more than ever - but <i>P.
catullus</i> has disappeared. The fat, apple-green <acronym><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; text-decoration: none;">larva</span></acronym>
with a black head and cervical shield was easily located in its rolled-leaf
nest.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Multiple broods, March-October.
Males "fly a beat" along roadsides with a very characteristic zigzag
flight near the ground. Both sexes visit low flowers such as <i>Lippia</i> and <i>Heliotrope</i>
and, in lawns, clovers and small yellow-flowered Oxalis.</span></div>
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of the Large Marble (<i>Euchloe ausonides</i>) leaves butterfly biologists
absolutely baffled. What is going on?</span></div>
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Common Name: Common Sooty-Wing Perhaps we should change the common name to "The Formerly-Common Sooty Wing," since this...