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Is Alaska’s First New Butterfly Species in Decades an Ancient Hybrid?

By Stephanie Livingston | University of Florida on Mar 21, 2016   Featured, Science/Education  

Is Alaska’s First New Butterfly Species in Decades an Ancient Hybrid?

  Some might say it takes a rare breed to survive the Alaska wilderness. The discovery of a possible new species of hybrid butterfly from the state’s interior is proving that theory correct. Belonging to a group known as the Arctics, the Tanana Arctic, Oeneis tanana, is the first new butterfly species described from the […]

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