C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity
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The C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity has its roots in the college museum established in the early 1890s, which was organized to support the teaching of zoology and entomology. Named for Clarence Preston Gillette (1859-1941), creator of the museum and the first professor of entomology at Colorado Agricultural College (now Colorado State University), the museum changed considerably over the 20th century. First housed in Old Main and curated by E. L. Burnett, the museum’s location changed several times before it was disbanded in 1947, at which point the insect collection became the property of the Department of Entomology. In the early 1990s, department staff named the collection the C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity. The museum currently holds approximately three million insect specimens and a noted reference library. The museum’s records contain two accession ledgers, the papers of butterfly collector Ray E. Stanford, newspapers, papers, and books of museum fellow Richard Holland.
These digital collections include publications, conference proceedings, the newsletter Papilio. New Series, and a set of accession catalogs for insects and other arthropods dated 1890 to 1972. Many of the specimens were collected by C. P. Gillette, and entries typically include location, date, collector, specific habitats information, hosts, and associated other species.
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Item Open Access A catalog of Scolytidae (Coleoptera), supplement 4 (2011-2019) with an annotated checklist of the world fauna (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Scolytidae)(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2021-03-24) Bright, Donald E., authorThis contribution consists of two parts. The first part is the fourth supplement to the 1992 Catalog of the Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Coleoptera) of the World (Wood and Bright 1992) and summarizes the additions and corrections that have affected the nomenclature of the family for the years 2011 through 2019. New synonymy proposed in this supplement: Dryocoetes caryi Hopkins (=Dryocoetes sechelti Swaine); Lymantor decipiens (LeConte) (=Lymantor alaskanus Wood). New combinations proposed in this supplement: Ancipitis scabrior (Schedl) from Xyleborus; Beaverium obstipus (Schedl) from Xyleborus; Beaverium rufus (Schedl) from Xyleborus; Cyclorhipidion inaqualis (Schedl) from Xyleborus; Debus amphicranoiodes (Hagedorn) from Xyleborus; Euwallacea pseudorudis (Schedl) from Xyleborus; Euwallacea sublinearis (Eggers) from Xyleborus; Planiculus subdolosus (Schedl) from Xyleborus; Pseudowebbia bakoensis (Browne) from Webbia; Pseudowebbia quattuordecimspinatus (Sampson) from Webbia. New status proposed in this supplement: Dendroctonus barberi Hopkins is removed from synonymy with Dendroctonus brevicomis LeConte and placed as a subspecies of D. brevicomis; Euwallacea kuroshio Gomez and Hulcr, Xyleborus whitfordiodendrus (Schedl) and E. fornicatior (Eggers) are placed as subspecies of Euwallacea fornicatus (Eichhoff). New name proposed in this supplement: Ambrosiophilus incertissimus for Xyleborus incertus Schedl 1969, not Schedl 1963. New distribution records are given for 130 species. The second part of this paper is a checklist of the world Scolytidae (Coleoptera) consisting of 280 genera, of which 17 are fossils, and 7829 species, of which 61 are fossils. Generic and specific names that are currently recognized are listed along with their synonyms, if any. Generic names are listed in alphabetical order, followed by the included species, also in alphabetical order. The known distribution of every species is given. The cut-off date is December 31, 2019.Item Open Access A new Celastrina from the eastern slope of Colorado(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1998-02-20) Wright, David M., author; Scott, James A., author; James A. Scott, publisherCelastrina humulus (new species) is named and compared to related and sympatric Celastrina. It is univoltine, and usually sympatric with the univoltine Celastrina ladon sidara and barely overlaps the end of the sidara flight, as adults emerge from post-diapause pupae later than sidara. It has a different habitat, and a different host (most populations feed on male flowers of hop Humulus lupulus, but one set of populations feeds on Lupinus argenteus flower buds). Adults are whiter than sidara. Adults are electrophoretically most similar to the eastern Prunus serotina gall feeding host race, and are somewhat similar to eastern neglecta. 1st-stage larval setae differ slightly from C. ladon sidara, mature larvae are variable but differ slightly in the frequency of color forms, and pupae differ somewhat in color, and in size of black spots.Item Open Access About Papilio (New Series)(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2014-10) Scott, James A., author; James A. Scott, publisherThis entomology journal is a scientific journal that covers the systematics and taxonomy and biology of butterflies, mostly from Colorado. There are about 700 species of butterflies in North America, and about 270 in Colorado, and new discoveries are made every year on the Colorado species. Systematics is the study of the kinds of butterflies that exist on our planet, and taxonomy involves the names of butterflies, including the description and naming of species new to science. The word Papilio comes from the scientific name Papilio of Swallowtail Butterflies, very large butterflies common in Colorado. I started Papilio (New Series) in 1981 when I was working on a book on the biology of North American butterflies for Stanford Univ. Press (see Scott 1986 in the list of publications below) and found several dozen butterflies that needed to be in the book but lacked names, so I decided to name them in one publication rather than go through the onerous process of getting several dozen separate papers published.Item Open Access Accession catalogue(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1894-1898) C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, authorItem Open Access Accession catalogue(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1890-1895) C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, authorItem Open Access Accessions catalog(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1903-1906) C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, authorItem Open Access Accessions catalogue: Colorado Agricultural College(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1891-1972) C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, authorThe two volume set of Accession Catalogues contains direct records of individual or series of insects and other arthropods dating from March 1891 to November 1972. Many of these specimens were collected by the well-known and first entomologist in the state of Colorado, Clarence P. Gillette. This material became the basis of the current three million specimen insect repository known as the C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, Colorado State University, Fort Collins. The records include, location, date, collector, specific habitats information, hosts, and associated other species.Item Open Access Accessions catalogue: western slope fruit investigations, Grand Junction, Colo.(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1906-1907) C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, authorItem Open Access Argynnis (Speyeria) nokomis nokomis: geographic variation, metapopulations, and the origin of spurious specimens (Nymphalidae)(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2014) Fisher, Michael S., author; Scott, James A., author; James A. Scott, publisherGeographic variation in wing pattern within ssp. nokomis is documented across its range from northern New Mexico to southern Colorado and southeastern Utah and northeastern Arizona. This variation allows one to pinpoint the origin of collected specimens within that range, and defines the maximum possible areas of metapopulations. All of the numerous specimens of ssp. nokomis labeled from Ernest Oslar from southwestern and central Colorado, including the mislabeled neotype, are actually part of a hundred nokomis collected by Wilmatte and Theodore Cockerell from Beulah, New Mexico, so that is the true nokomis type locality. Ssp. tularosa is an invalid synonym because it is identical to Beulah ssp. nokomis, the provenance of all specimens is dubious as all were mislabeled from Sacramento Mts. but evidently actually collected at Beulah by the Cockerells or Henry Skinner, the purported altitude is too low, known collectors did not find it at the mislabeled Sacramento Mts. sites when it supposedly occurred there, numerous other mislabeled nokomis exist, and the only valid specimens from those mountains are another subspecies coerulescens.Item Open Access Atlas of western USA butterflies: including adjacent parts of Canada and Mexico(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1993-01) Stanford, Ray E., author; Opler, Paul A., authorItem Open Access Biological catalogue of North American butterflies(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2008-12-03) Scott, James A., author; James A. Scott, publisherItem Open Access Biological collection, first entry(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1890-1903) C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, authorItem Open Access Biology and systematics of Phyciodes (Phyciodes)(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1994-11-18) Scott, James A., author; James A. Scott, publisherPhyciodes (Phyciodes) is revised, using numerous new traits of larvae, pupae, hosts, larval webs, antenna color, wing pattern, male and female genitalia, etc. New hosts and life histories are presented. Twelve new names are used: five new ssp. are named (P. batesii lakota, P. b. apsaalooke, P. b. anasazi, P. pulchella shoshoni, P. p. tutchone), three names are resurrected from long disuse due to synonymy (P. pulchella = pratensis = camoestris, P. mylitta arida), homonymy (selenis vs. homonym morpheus) and synonymy (P. cocyta = selenis), two new combinations are proposed (P. pulchella montana, P. pulchella camillus), and one name is restored to species status (P. pallescens); P. vesta is removed from subgenus Phyciodes and assigned to the same subgenus (Eresia) as P. frisia. Several new western U.S. taxa proved to be ssp. of batesii based on traits of adults, larvae, pupae, diapause, hosts, and ecology. With some exceptions (antenna, some forewing traits, etc.), the tharos-group taxa form a step-cline in most traits, from P. tharos riocolorado to P. tharos to P. cocyta to B. batesii to P. pulchella; in about 10 characters, riocolorado is a "super-tharos", more extreme than tharos and thus at the end of the step-cline, while pulchella clearly forms the other end of the step-cline. Another cline appears in P. batesii. The P. mylitta-group is similar to tharos-group (mylitta/tharos share similar primitive genitalia) and contains three species that are amply distinct in larvae and male and female genitalia. Farther away, the phaon-group is newly defined by many traits of male and female genitalia and non-Aster hosts: pallescens has the wing pattern of camillus, and picta and phaon complete the group.Item Open Access Building the California Academy Drawer to house pinned entomological specimens(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2006-04-28) Scott, James A., author; James A. Scott, publisherThis paper details everything one needs to know in order to build the California Academy Drawer, including costs, purchasing, sawing, glass-cutting, assembly, wood-filling, sanding, varnishing, installing pinning bottom, and installing hardware.Item Open Access Butterflies of the southern Rocky Mountains area, and their natural history and behavior(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022-03) Scott, James A., author; James A. Scott, publisherThis book reports the biology of the butterflies of the southern Rocky Mountains area, including all the species in Colorado, although surrounding areas are also discussed, especially the rest of the Southern Rocky Mts. in Wyoming and New Mexico and into Utah. This book presents what is known of the biology of the butterflies of Colorado and vicinity, including hostplants, eggs/larvae/pupae appearance and habits, behavior including flight habits and migration and mate-locating and mating and basking and roosting, and the flowers and other foods of adult butterflies, and natural history aspects of their biochemistry, plus mimicry, flight periods and number of generations, etc. It also includes taxonomic matters to assist identification of all the species and subspecies and forms. Much research on the biology of Colorado area butterflies has been done recently, but it has been published in many scattered publications and scientific journals and is not readily available, and some good research is unpublished; this book attempts to make it available, and provides the sources for good published research.Item Open Access Butterflies of the southern Rocky Mountains area, and their natural history and behavior: photos of mostly eggs larvae pupae. Part I. Hesperiidae(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2020) Scott, James A., author; James A. Scott, publisherThese four issues of Papilio (New Series) are photos for my book "Butterflies of the Southern Rocky Mts. Area, and their Natural History and Behavior", (https://hdl.handle.net/10217/200723) showing some adults but mostly early stages (eggs, 1st-stage, mature larvae, and pupae) of as many of the species as possible, primarily from the Southern Rockies area (I added a few other interesting species that do not occur in the area). They have been cropped and downsized to illustrate just the butterflies and conserve kilobytes, rather than serve as artistic images. They are arranged by evolutionary relationship, as in the book text.Item Open Access Butterflies of the southern Rocky Mountains area, and their natural history and behavior: photos of mostly eggs larvae pupae. Part II. Papilionidae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae (Libytheinae to Satyrinae)(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2020) Scott, James A., author; James A. Scott, publisherThese four issues of Papilio (New Series) are photos for my book "Butterflies of the Southern Rocky Mts. Area, and their Natural History and Behavior", (https://hdl.handle.net/10217/200723) showing some adults but mostly early stages (eggs, 1st-stage, mature larvae, and pupae) of as many of the species as possible, primarily from the Southern Rockies area (I added a few other interesting species that do not occur in the area). They have been cropped and downsized to illustrate just the butterflies and conserve kilobytes, rather than serve as artistic images. They are arranged by evolutionary relationship, as in the book text.Item Open Access Butterflies of the southern Rocky Mountains area, and their natural history and behavior: photos of mostly eggs larvae pupae. Part III. Nymphalinae (Anaeini to Melitaeini)(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2020) Scott, James A., author; James A. Scott, publisherThese four issues of Papilio (New Series) are photos for my book "Butterflies of the Southern Rocky Mts. Area, and their Natural History and Behavior", (https://hdl.handle.net/10217/200723) showing some adults but mostly early stages (eggs, 1st-stage, mature larvae, and pupae) of as many of the species as possible, primarily from the Southern Rockies area (I added a few other interesting species that do not occur in the area). They have been cropped and downsized to illustrate just the butterflies and conserve kilobytes, rather than serve as artistic images. They are arranged by evolutionary relationship, as in the book text.Item Open Access Butterflies of the southern Rocky Mountains area, and their natural history and behavior: photos of mostly eggs larvae pupae. Part IV. Lycaenidae(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2020) Scott, James A., author; James A. Scott, publisherThese four issues of Papilio (New Series) are photos for my book "Butterflies of the Southern Rocky Mts. Area, and their Natural History and Behavior", (https://hdl.handle.net/10217/200723) showing some adults but mostly early stages (eggs, 1st-stage, mature larvae, and pupae) of as many of the species as possible, primarily from the Southern Rockies area (I added a few other interesting species that do not occur in the area). They have been cropped and downsized to illustrate just the butterflies and conserve kilobytes, rather than serve as artistic images. They are arranged by evolutionary relationship, as in the book text.Item Open Access Butterfly hostplant records, 1992-2005, with a treatise on the evolution of Erynnis, and a note on new terminology for mate-locating behavior(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2006-04-28) Scott, James A., author; James A. Scott, publisherHostplants of larvae, based on 1,014 records (including 474 records of ovipositions and 540 discoveries of eggs, larvae, or pupae in nature) from 1992 through 2005, are presented for butterflies (including skippers), mostly from Colorado, and some from Wyoming, Nebraska, and Minnesota. New life histories are given, including many notes on egg placement, overwintering stage, behavior, and ecology. Larvae and pupae of Colo. Cyllopsis pertepida can be either green or tan, and thus retain a seasonal polyphenism that is present in other Cyllopsis even though only one generation occurs in Colo. Erebia magdalena oviposits on large boulders. Phyciodes picta evidently eats an annual gummy aster in much of the northern part of its range. Still another bog butterfly has been found to be polyphagous (Pyrgus centaureae), adding to the many polyphagous bog butterflies previously known (many Boloria, Colias scudderii); Speyeria mormonia eurynome might be semipolyphagous as well, though conclusive evidence is unavailable. Cercyonis (sthenele) meadii oviposits in shade north of pine trees near its sedge host that grows in that shade. Coenonympha tullia has green and brown larval forms, and striped and unstriped pupal forms. Erebia epipsodea oviposits high on its grass hosts in the foothills, low on its grass hosts in the alpine zone, to moderate the temperature of the eggs. The pupa of Chlosyne palla calydon is black-and white, versus brown in Calif. C. palla palla. Thorybes pylades and Everes amyntula specialize on tendril-bearing (pea "vine") herbaceous legumes. Stinga morrisoni is the only known butterfly that chooses large bunch-grasses (seven species) of many grass taxa. Paratrytone snowi eats only Muhlenbergia montana. Erynnis icelus oviposits only on seedlings. The evolution of Erynnis is discussed, using many new characters of larvae and pupae and valval flexion. Mature larvae of some Pyrginae (Pyrgus communis, Pholisora catullus) that diapause become reddish in color, whereas non-diapausing mature larvae remain greenish. An appendix provides new terminology for describing mate-locating behavior.