The article appeared in Biodiversity Data Journal on 18.Jan.2016.
Category Archives: News
Arthropod-related posts from the 16th annual Alaska Invasive Species Workshop
Crayfish inventory on Kodiak Island
Blythe Brown, Kodiak Soil & Water Conservation District
Invasive forest insects in Alaska: Where are they now?
Jason Moan, Alaska Division of Forestry
ADN: Alaska’s late butterfly king leaves one more contribution: State’s first guide
Zaz Hollander wrote a nice article (URI below) for the Alaska Dispatch News on Ken Philip and his newly available book, Butterflies of Alaska, A Field Guide.
Climate oscillations, glacial refugia, and dispersal ability: factors influencing the genetic structure of the least salmonfly, Pteronarcella badia (Plecoptera), in Western North America
The article appeared in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology. See the URI below.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0553-4

Sproul et al. 2015, Fig. 3. Fig. 3 A map showing the distribution of sample localities for P. badia across portions western North America. Clade membership (as identified in Fig. 4) for all specimens at a given locality is represented by color. Clade names are abbreviated as follows. Widespread (WS), Northern Rockies (NR), Western Great Basin (WGB), Pacific Northwest (PNW), Old Rio Grande (ORG), and Old Colorado Plateau (OCP)
Polar Biology: Thermal biology and immersion tolerance of the Beringian pseudoscorpion Wyochernes asiaticus
The abstract for the article is available via the URI below.
Refuge Notebook: The mysterious life of the vagabond cluster fly

A male cluster fly suns on the siding of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge headquarters building, March 23, 2015
(http://bit.ly/1IFhfuB).
I was asked to write this article for the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge‘s Refuge Notebook series.
It also appeared here in the Peninsula Clarion.
ADN: Is this round two of the Kenai bark beetle invasion?
Butterflies of Alaska, A Field Guide
Butterflies of Alaska, A Field Guide will soon be available for purchase. Details are available at the URI below.
http://www.akentsoc.org/documents/field-guide-to-alaska-butterflies
Repeated Reticulate Evolution in North American Papilio machaon Group Swallowtail Butterflies

Generalized range map of current distributions of the Papilio machaon species complex in North America.
The article appeared in the journal PLOS ONE on October 30.
URI:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0141882
Citation:
Dupuis JR, Sperling FAH (2015) Repeated Reticulate Evolution in North American Papilio machaon Group Swallowtail Butterflies. PLoS ONE 10(10): e0141882. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141882
A review of Canadian and Alaskan species of the genera Clusiota Casey and Atheta Thomson, subgenus Microdota Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)
The article appeared in the journal ZooKeys on September 30. See the article at the URI below.