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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252CFF83FF23ED0D7447A520" bold="true" box="[151,357,1330,1356]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">Grammia eureka</emphasis>
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(
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h, 7)
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252CFF83FF23ED9A7435A5D3" bold="true" box="[151,279,1445,1471]" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Males of
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252CFF83FE26ED9A7721A5D2" box="[402,515,1445,1470]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">G. eureka</emphasis>
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resemble those of
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n. sp. (the female of
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252CFF83FB36ED9A71CFA5D2" box="[1154,1261,1445,1470]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">bowmani</emphasis>
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unknown) but have a reduced, elliptical eye and a larger, more exposed gena; the reduced eyes suggest that both sexes are diurnal, which may help explain why so few have been collected. The longest antennal branches are shorter than those of both
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and
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252CFF83FDAEEE2277B8A65A" box="[538,666,1565,1590]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">nevadensis</emphasis>
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: 22.5 times the intersegmental length in
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252CFF83FB39EE2271F9A65A" box="[1165,1243,1565,1590]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">eureka</emphasis>
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compared to 3 3.5 and 44.5 for
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252CFF83FED1EE7A74F2A632" box="[357,464,1605,1630]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">bowmani</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252CFF83FDBDEE7A77A8A632" box="[521,650,1605,1630]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">nevadensis</emphasis>
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, respectively. The black spots of the hindwing are mainly clustered toward the outer margin as in
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and some forms of
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252CFF83FCFEEE52767EA6EA" box="[842,860,1645,1670]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">G</emphasis>
.
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, but the hindwing ground colour is a more orange­tinted shade, not the pink to deep salmon pink of
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252CFF83FCC5EEAA76FFA6C2" box="[881,989,1685,1710]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">bowmani</emphasis>
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. Although somewhat faded from age, the male and female hindwings of
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252CFF83FD9CEE827755A6BA" box="[552,631,1725,1750]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">eureka</emphasis>
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appear to be coloured alike (not as in
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252CFF83FB86EE8271F1A6BA" box="[1074,1235,1725,1750]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">G. nevadensis</emphasis>
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, in which female hindwing colouring is much more saturated). Also, surprisingly for a
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252CFF83FC70EEDA7116A692" box="[964,1076,1765,1790]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">Grammia</emphasis>
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species of this group, the male genitalia appear to be distinctive (only one specimen was dissected), in that the apex of the valve is blunt and squared off, not elongate and rounded as in other members of the group (
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). Collection dates indicate a much earlier flight period than
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252CFF83FDB8EF62778CA71A" box="[524,686,1885,1910]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">G. nevadensis</emphasis>
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, with records from April to May, compared to August through September for
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252CFF83FEFDEFBA7728A7F2" box="[329,522,1925,1950]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">G. n. nevadensis</emphasis>
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.
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and
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252CFF83FD7DEFBA764EA7F2" box="[713,876,1925,1950]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">G. nevadensis</emphasis>
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are sympatric at
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, Utah, with numerous
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252CFF83FF23EF92743AA7AA" box="[151,280,1965,1990]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">nevadensis</emphasis>
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specimens known from
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(T. Spalding; CNC, USNM) and nearby localities (D.F. Hardwick; CNC).
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FF72E8A8747CA0DD" bold="true" box="[198,350,151,177]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Description.</emphasis>
MALE.
<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FE64E8A7773BA0DD" box="[464,537,152,177]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Head:</emphasis>
Eyes reduced to little more than half the size seen in most species of
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FAFAE8A775E1A0B5" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Grammia</emphasis>
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, including
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,
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,
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and
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,
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and having the appearance of being directed forward. The eye reduction leaves an exposed gena, which bears a few brown scales, more in one male than the other. Upper edge of eye set well apart from base of antenna, whereas it almost touches base of antenna in species with larger eyes. Compound eye roughly equals one­fourth of a sphere; that of
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,
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</emphasis>
, and most others of the group is one­half a sphere or close. Antennae bipectinate with relatively short branches, the longest 22.5X longer than intersegmental distance; antenna brown, the branches tending to be slightly clavate, the shaft and branches fully scaled above, setose beneath in the usual way; palpi appearing long but probably only because of their long vestiture and more conspicuous appearance relative to the reduced eye. Front and tips of palpi white at sides, otherwise dark brown or blackish.
<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FC70EA3F713AA275" box="[964,1048,512,537]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Thorax</emphasis>
: Vertex with tuft of long, black scales; each patagium black with border of whitish vestiture along both sides; tegula black with whitish border along each side; dorsum of thorax otherwise whitish with wide mid­dorsal black band. Thorax beneath mostly with shaggy black vestiture (with some small white patches), except for legs, which are largely white, especially the tibiae.
<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FED1EA9F74F6A2D5" box="[357,468,672,697]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Abdomen</emphasis>
: Abdomen with medium­width black mid­dorsal band, reddish at sides, pale ventrally except for a segmental series of vertical bars in zone between pink and pale areas. Forewing (
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h) dorsally with an almost complete set of whitish bands, except that the basal and antemedial bands may be fragmentary as in
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FEDFEB2774F4A35D" box="[363,470,792,817]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">bowmani</emphasis>
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and many specimens of
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FD4CEB27765BA35D" box="[760,889,792,817]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">nevadensis</emphasis>
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. General pattern as in other members of group except that medial band is nearly straight, as in
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FD74EB7F760EA335" box="[704,812,832,857]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">bowmani</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; not as strongly convex as in
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FB30EB7F7027A335" box="[1156,1285,832,857]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">nevadensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Postmedial band curved or bent basad near costa, but not as strongly so as in most members of the
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FB1AEB57700DA3ED" box="[1198,1327,872,897]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">nevadensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
complex (
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FF15EBAF742EA3C5" box="[161,268,912,937]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">bowmani</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
differs in having this band nearly straight as in
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FCD7EBAF76F4A3C5" box="[867,982,912,937]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">williamsii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
); cubital band well developed. Wing length:
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,
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;
<typeStatus id="549A8847252BFF84FE6AEB877761A3BE" box="[478,579,952,978]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" type="paratype">paratype</typeStatus>
male,
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. Length to width ratio = 2.25 (
<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FBEEEB87714BA3BD" box="[1114,1129,952,977]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">n</emphasis>
= 2). Hindwing (
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h) dorsally orange red, not pink to salmon coloured as in
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FCA0EBDF765DA395" box="[788,895,992,1017]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">bowmani</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, or bright red as in many
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FB18EBDF700EA395" box="[1196,1324,992,1017]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">nevadensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; submarginal dark spots with tendency to be concentrated as a border on outer margin much as in
<taxonomicName id="4C214D66252BFF84FB1BEC377038A44D" box="[1199,1306,1032,1057]" class="Insecta" family="Arctiidae" genus="Grammia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bowmani">
<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FB1BEC377038A44D" box="[1199,1306,1032,1057]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">bowmani</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Ventrally with pattern very similar to upper side, but with colour less intense.
<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FC7BEC0F711CA425" box="[975,1086,1072,1097]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Abdomen</emphasis>
: Male genitalia (
<figureCitation id="131A2A60252BFF84FAB9EC0F7077A426" box="[1293,1365,1072,1098]" captionStart="FIGURES 3 8" captionStartId="9.[151,269,1917,1941]" captionTargetBox="[212,1383,389,1894]" captionTargetId="figure@9.[160,1441,377,1910]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="FIGURES 3 8. Male genitalia Grammia nevadensis group species; caudoventral aspect of genital capsule (a) and aedeagus with vesica everted, right lateral aspect. 3) G. nevadensis superba (Oliver, BC), 4) G. behrii (Kern Co., CA), 5) G. incorrupta (Pima Co., AZ), 6) G. williamsii (Jenner, AB), 7) G. eureka (PARATYPE, Eureka, UT), 8) G. bowmani (PARATYPE, Mesa Co., CO)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/175495/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Fig. 6</figureCitation>
) with valves relatively distinctive for this genus, with the distal part of the valve wide and spatulate, appearing squared­off not tapered and rounded. Inner median ridge and median process of valve moderately developed; Juxta wide with broad, shallow dorsal notch; basal 1/4 of uncus with pronounced constriction, smoothly tapering to apex with slight constriction 2/3 of distance to apex. Aedeagus with strong dorsad curve at 2/3 distance beyond base. Vesica apparently indistinguishable from
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FC90ECC776E4A57D" box="[804,966,1272,1297]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">G. nevadensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, coarsely and extensively scobinate but not much more so than in related species. Largest (apical) chamber of vesica more elongate like
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FB49ED1F705CA555" box="[1277,1406,1312,1337]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">nevadensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in comparison to the short, broad vesica of
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FDCDED77762FA50D" box="[633,781,1352,1377]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">G. williamsii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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) and
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FC1CED777116A50D" box="[936,1076,1352,1377]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">G. bowmani</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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). The genitalia of only one male was examined so that the other could be kept intact for future reference and illustration, since the abdominal markings are sometimes important in
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FD61EDA77667A5DD" box="[725,837,1432,1457]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Grammia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B9E36E5252BFF84FF72EDFF7707A72E" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2018]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">
FEMALE.
<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FEFAEDFF74B5A5B5" box="[334,407,1472,1497]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Head:</emphasis>
palpus with or without pale tip. Eye reduced as in male; gena large, partly scaled; antenna somewhat laminate, appearing serrate at sides, black.
<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FCDBEDD776ECA66D" box="[879,974,1512,1537]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Thorax:</emphasis>
Legs black with cream­coloured markings as in male; tibiae characteristically pale outwardly (laterally), blackish inwardly (proximally). Markings of both wings much like those of male, except that basal and antemedial bands of forewing tend to be further reduced; basal band essentially absent; antemedial band wide and prominent, although broken in the middle in the Utah female, absent except for a trace at costa in the Idaho female. It should be emphasized that in most members of the
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FEDDEE8F74C8A6A5" box="[361,490,1712,1737]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">nevadensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
complex and other species of
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FCC2EE8F76C4A6A5" box="[886,998,1712,1737]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Grammia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the hindwings are more intensely coloured than those of the male, but
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FDF7EEE77790A69D" box="[579,690,1752,1777]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">G. eureka</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
differs in having the sexes coloured alike. Length of forewing:
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; length­width ratio = 2.25 (
<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FD9AEF3F771FA775" box="[558,573,1792,1817]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">n</emphasis>
= 2).
<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FD3DEF3F77D5A775" box="[649,759,1792,1817]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Abdomen</emphasis>
: Generally similar to male but larger, and nearly all black ventrally. Genitalia not examined.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FF72EF707460A705" bold="true" box="[198,322,1871,1897]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">
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:
</emphasis>
Male.
<collectionCode id="ED30AE20252BFF84FE2DEF6F74C9A706" box="[409,491,1872,1898]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">UTAH</collectionCode>
, [Juab County],
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,
<date id="FF9F1025252BFF84FCA3EF6F7698A706" box="[791,954,1872,1898]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" value="1909-05-16">16 May 1909</date>
, Tom Spalding (
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h). (illustrated in
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pl. 3, fig. 1).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252BFF84FF72EFA0746FA7D5" bold="true" box="[198,333,1951,1977]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">
<typeStatus id="549A8847252BFF84FF72EFA0746AA7D5" box="[198,328,1951,1977]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" type="paratype">Paratypes</typeStatus>
:
</emphasis>
<specimenCount id="9D27FD6C252BFF84FEE1EF9F748BA7D6" box="[341,425,1952,1978]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" type="male">1 male</specimenCount>
,
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. Male, same locality and collector as
<typeStatus id="549A8847252BFF84FC58EF9F7177A7D6" box="[1004,1109,1952,1978]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
,
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,
<collectionCode id="ED30AE20252BFF84FAB6EF9F7075A7D6" LSID="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34871" box="[1282,1367,1952,1978]" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34871" name="Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">USNM</collectionCode>
Slide No. 56401; female, same locality and collector,
<date id="FF9F1025252BFF84FD65EFF7765AA78E" box="[721,888,1992,2018]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" value="1910-04-20">20 April 1910</date>
(illustrated in
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pl. 3, fig. 8); female,
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, Ada Co., Boise, Jim Manning [no date, and locality not certain ­ see Remarks below].
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<paragraph id="8B9E36E5252AFF85FF72E8D776D5A146" blockId="5.[151,1437,152,978]" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">
All
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deposited in
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. The female dated
<date id="FF9F1025252AFF85FCB8E8D77691A16E" box="[780,947,232,258]" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" value="1910-04-20">20 April 1910</date>
has slightly crumpled wings as though it had been reared or perhaps collected before the wings had fully hardened.
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C33B656E252AFF85FF72E9087773A116" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="8B9E36E5252AFF85FF72E9087065A13E" blockId="5.[151,1437,152,978]" box="[198,1351,311,338]" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">
<emphasis id="B955EAF7252AFF85FF72E9087444A13D" bold="true" box="[198,358,311,337]" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Distribution.</emphasis>
Eastern and northern edges of the Great Basin in Utah and Idaho, insofar as known.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252AFF85FF72E9607453A115" bold="true" box="[198,369,351,377]" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Flight period.</emphasis>
<date id="FF9F1025252AFF85FECBE95F7773A116" box="[383,593,352,378]" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">20 April16 May.</date>
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<subSubSection id="C33B656E252AFF85FF72E9B876D7A3BE" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8B9E36E5252AFF85FF72E9B876D7A3BE" blockId="5.[151,1437,152,978]" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">
<emphasis id="B955EAF7252AFF85FF72E9B87462A1CD" bold="true" box="[198,320,391,417]" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Remarks.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252AFF85FEE6E9B77739A1CD" box="[338,539,392,417]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Grammia eureka</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is based on three old specimens from the Barnes collection in the USNM, collected in Utah by Tom Spalding almost a century ago, and a female
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thought to have been collected near Boise, Idaho (see below). The three Utah specimens collected in
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were acquired by Barnes and McDunnough for the Barnes Collection, the largest privately held North American
<taxonomicName id="4C214D66252AFF85FB26EA3F703DA276" box="[1170,1311,512,538]" class="Insecta" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="order">Lepidoptera</taxonomicName>
collection of its day. Spalding was one of several field collectors from whom Barnes purchased western material or paid to collect for him, and the Barnes collection was later purchased by the
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Dept. of Agriculture for the National Collection.
<bibRefCitation id="EFB04B14252AFF85FE2DEA47711BA2FE" author="Barnes" box="[409,1081,632,658]" pageId="5" pageNumber="49" refString="Barnes, W. &amp; McDunnough. J. (1912) Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America. Vol. 2. The Review Press, Decatur, IL." type="book" year="1912" yearSuffix="p">Barnes and McDunnough (1912: p. 10, pl. 3, figs. 1, 8)</bibRefCitation>
published photographs of the specimen here designated as
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of
<emphasis id="B955EAF7252AFF85FDC0EA9F77FDA2D5" box="[628,735,672,697]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">G. e u re k a</emphasis>
and the female from Utah as examples of what &quot;is probably the true
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<emphasis id="B955EAF7252AFF85FF43EAF7741CA28D" box="[247,318,712,737]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">blakei</emphasis>
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.” This determination was wrong, as McDunnough must later have realized, but no one pursued the matter further. These specimens remained intact just as McDunnough (Barnes curator) had left them. Their specific identity has remained somewhat of a puzzle without additional specimens coming to light, with the exception of the
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female; this specimen was received in the 1950s by the senior author from Jim Manning, a butterfly collector of Boise, Idaho. Received as a papered specimen, it bore no data and it is merely assumed that the collection locality was at or near Boise. That region, like
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, Utah, is near the edge of the Great Basin, which may provide a clue to the species habitat.
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