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Post by nomihoudai on Oct 13, 2020 12:34:09 GMT -8
I just checked a range map of Philotes sonorensis and came across these reports of P. sonorensis within the city limit: Does it really fly there? They are not that picky from what I know.
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Post by mikeh on Oct 13, 2020 14:32:12 GMT -8
I have no personal knowledge of San Jose but this looks like an inaturalist map and for this website you have to keep the in mind that some observations are 'obscured' which means they are only good plus or minus 0.2 degrees.
Observations can either be obscured by the user or by the website if a species is considered threatened, as is the case for this species. In ths case I would suggest looking at the foodplant to get a truer understanding of the probable range and zooming in enough that the obscured observations look different than open ones (translucent circles vs pins).
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Post by nomihoudai on Oct 13, 2020 14:44:30 GMT -8
Hi mikeh, I was keeping this in mind. I clicked on some of the dots within the city and the positions were marked as "exact location". Therefore I am confused. I will check the thing with the pins.
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Post by nomihoudai on Oct 13, 2020 14:46:44 GMT -8
I checked and indeed every single pin is obscured. So I guess they are somewhere in these mountains, but not the city.
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Post by mikeh on Oct 13, 2020 17:42:21 GMT -8
I think Alum Rock park is a classic locality in the area.
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Post by Chris Grinter on Oct 14, 2020 14:54:42 GMT -8
Yes, they wouldn't be flying around in the city unless they were somehow on ornamental Dudleya? Not impossible, but I'd be surprised. A nice seep with lots of Dudleya is the perfect spot for the sonoran blue.
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