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References
General References for
Butterflies
Douglas, M.M. 1986. The lives of butterflies. The University of Michigan Press,
Ann Arbor. 141 pp. [ISBN 0-472-10078-5]
Glassberg, J. 1993. Butterflies through binoculars: a field guide to butterflies
in the Boston-New Yrok-Washington Region. Oxford University Press, New York.
160 pp., 40 color plates. [ISBN 0-19-507983-3]
Opler, P.A. 1994. Peterson first guide to butterflies and moths. Houghton Mifflin
Co., Boston. 128 pp. [ISBN 0-395-67072-1] <http://www.hmco.com/trade/>
Opler, P.A. and J. Ebner. 1995. Audubon Society's Butterflies for beginners [video].
Mastervision, New York
Opler, P.A. and G.O. Krizek. 1984. Butterflies east of the Great Plains. Johns
Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 294 pp. [ISBN 0-8018-2938-0]
<http://jhupress.jhu.edu>
Opler, P.A. and V. Malikul. 1992. Peterson field guide to butterflies of eastern
North America. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. 396 pp. [ISBN 0-395-63279-X,
paper; O-395-36452-3, cloth] <http://www.hmco.com/trade/>
Pyle, R.M. 1981. The Audubon Society field guide to North American butterflies.
A.A. Knopf, New York. 924 pp. [ISBN 0-394-51914-0]
Pyle, R.M. 1992. The Audubon Society handbook for butterfly watchers. Houghton Mifflin
Co., Boston. 274 pp. [ISBN 0-684-18151-7]
Sbordoni, V. and S. Forestiero. 1985. Butterflies of the World. Time Books,
New York. 312 pp.
Scott, J.A. 1986. The butterflies of North America. Stanford University Press, Stanford,
Calif. 583 pp. [ISBN 0-8047-1205-0]
Vane-Wright, R.I. and P.R. Ackery, editors. 1984. The biology of butterflies. Academic
Press, London. 429 pp. [ISBN 0-12-713750-5]
Conservation,
Management, and Monitoring of Butterflies
Collins, N.M. 1987. Legislation to conserve insects in Europe. The Amateur Entomologists'
Society, A.E.S. Pamphlet #13, 80 pp.
Collins, N.M. and M.G. Morris. 1985. Theatened swallowtail butterflies of the world: the
IUCN Red Data Book. IUCN (World Conservation Union), Cambridge, U.K. and Gland,
Switzerland. 401 pages, 8 color plates. [ISBN 2-88032-603-6]
Collins, N.M. and J.A. Thomas, editors. 1991. The conservation of insects and their
habitats. Academic Press, London. 450 pp. [ISBN 0-12-181370-3]
Covell, C.V., Jr. 1999. The butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) of Kentucky: an
annotated checklist. Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission Scientific and
Technical Series 6:1-220.
Malcolm, S.B. and M.P. Zalucki, editors. 1992. Biology and conservation of the Monarch
butterfly. Natural history Museum of Los angeles County, Science Series No. 38.
419 pp. [ISSN 0079-0943]
New, T.R. 1984. Insect conservation: an Australian perspective. Series Entomologica 32.
Dr. W. Junk Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 184 pp. [ISBN 90-6193-507-5]
New, T.R., editor. 1993. Conservation biology of Lycaenidae (Butterflies). Occasional
Paper of the IUCN Species Survival Commission No. 8, Gland Switzerland. 173 pp.
[ISBN 2-8317-0159-7]
Opler, P.A. 1976. The parade of passing species: a survey of extinctions in the U.S.
Science Teacher 43(9):30-34.
Pollard, E., M.L. Hall, and T.J. Bibby. 1986. Monitoring the abundance of butterflies:
1976-1985. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Monks Wood Experiment Station, Abbots
Ripton, U.K. [ISBN 0-86139-357-0]
Pollard, E. and T.J. Yates. 1993. Monitoring butterflies for ecology and conservation.
Chapman & Hall, London.
Powell, J.A. 1995. Lepidoptera inventories in the continental United States. Pages
168-170 in E. T. LaRoe, G. S. Farris, C. E. Puckett, P. D. Doran, and M. J. Mac,
editors. Our living resources: a report to the nation on the distribution,
abundance, and health of U.S. plants, animals, and ecosystems. National
Biological Service, Washington, D.C.
Pullin, A.S. 1995. Ecology and conservation of butterflies. Chapman & Hall, London.
363 pp. [ISBN 0-412-56970-1]
Pyle, R.M., M. Bentzien, and P. Opler. 1981. Insect conservation. Annual Review of
Entomology 26:233-258.
Swengel, A.B. and P.A. Opler, editors. 1993-1996. NABA-Xerces Fourth of July
Butterfly Counts. North American Butterfly Association, Morristown,
New Jersey.
Swengel, A.B. and S.R. Swengel. 1995. The tall-grass butterfly community. Pages
174-175 in E. T. LaRoe, G. S. Farris, C. E. Puckett, P. D. Doran, and M. J.
Mac, editors. Our living resources: a report to the nation on the distribution,
abundance, and health of U.S. plants, animals, and ecosystems. National
Biological Service, Washington, D.C.
Wells, S.M., R.M. Pyle, and N.M. Collins, compilers. 1983. The IUCN Invertebrate
Red Data Book. IUCN (World Conservation Union), Gland, Switzerland. 632 pp.
[ISBN 2-88032-602-X]
Butterflies of
the eastern United States (Opler)
Literature
reviewed included all numbers of:
- Atala
- Bulletin of the Allyn
Museum
- Journal of the
Lepidopterists' Society
- Journal of the Research on
the Lepidoptera
- Kentucky Lepidopterist
- Lepidopterists' News
- Mid-continent
Lepidoptera
- Ohio Lepidopterists
- Phaeton
- Southeastern
Lepidopterist's News
- Southern Lepidopterists'
News
- All published state and regional
Lepidoptera or butterfly treatments
- Other articles, including those
cited by Field, dos Passos and Masters (1974: Smithsonian
Contribution to Zoology 157).
Atlas of
Butterflies of Western USA (Stanford and Opler)Space
prohibits the listing of the more than 300 books and articles
surveyed for western North American butterfly records. All known
books in the past 50 years covering all or part of the region have
been examined, as well as most issues of the following periodicals
since 1940, and a few strategic earlier works of historical
value:
- Agricultural Experiment Station
University of Wyoming Sci. Monographs
- Alberta Naturalist
- American Museum Novitates
- Annals of the Entomological Society
of America
- Biological Journal of the Linnaean
Society
- Blue Jay
- Bulletin of the Allyn Museum
- Bulletin of the British Museum of
Natural History
- Bulletin of the Brooklyn
Entomological Society
- Bulletin of the Grand Canyon
Natural History Association
- Bulletin of the Southern California
Academy of Sciences
- Bulletin of the University of
Kansas
- Canadian Entomologist
- Canadian Journal of Zoology
- Continental Lepidopterist
- Ecology
- Entomological News
- Fort Hayes University Studies
- Great Basin Naturalist
- Journal of the Kansas Entomological
Society
- Journal of the Lepidopterists'
Society
- Journal of the New York
Entomological Society
- Journal of Research on the
Lepidoptera
- Kentucky Lepidopterist
- Lepidopterists' News, and News of
the Lepidopterists' Society including all Season Summaries
- Lyman Entomological Museum and
Laboratory Memoirs
- Memoirs of the Lepidopterists'
Society
- Mid Continent Lepidoptera Series
- Minot State University Science
Monographs
- Natural History Museum of Los
Angeles County Science Series
- North Dakota State University
Science Series
- Northwest Lepidopterists'
Association Newsletter
- Occasional Publications of the
Nevada State Museum
- Pan-Pacific Entomologist
- Papilio, New Series
- Plateau
- Proceedings of the Entomological
Society of Washington
- Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences
- Psyche
- Publicaciones Especiales del Museo
de Zoologia, Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico
- Quaestiones Entomologicae
- Revista de la Sociedad Mexicana de
Lepidopterologia
- Smithsonian Contributions to
Zoology
- Southern Lepidopterists' News
- Southern Methodist University
Studies
- Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
publications
- Time Magazine! (we didn't cover
Pravda)
- Transactions of the American
Entomological Society
- Transactions of the San Diego
Society of Natural History
- University of California
Publications in Entomology
- Utahensis and Utah Lepidopterist
- Wasmann Journal of Biology
- Xerces Society publications: Wings,
Atala, Fourth of July Butterfly Count reports
Informal works, maps,
regional lists:
Austin, Bailowitz, Cary,
Curtis, Ellis, Ely, Emmels, Freeman, Gillette, Hinchliff, Holland,
Kendall, Kendall/Mcguire, Kohler, Kondla, Marrone, Mattoon,
McGuire/Rickard, Mullins, Opler, Pelham, Pyle, Rosche, Savage,
Shepard, Spomer, Stanford, Toliver/Holland, Warren/Brock.
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