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University of Florida's preliminary studies show that an Atlantic clade and Gulf clade of Eastern indigos exist. Further data needs to be analyzed before this information can be assessed....

My comment: So... not only is the captive population of indigos in this hobby severely inbred, we've been mixing the two genetic clades indiscriminately. I think this would be analogous to the zonata agalmas. We had no idea that the "Martir" and the "Juarez" localities of agalmas were genetically different clades and we were creating "mutts" in captivity for the longest time. Boy, can't win here.

so the eastern indigo nwas moving toward a speciation separation of the gulf coast and the pensular area???.......is the population ...or better to ask ....WAS the population continuos from the gulf area to the penisular area.....was the penisular population disjunct from the gulf coast......NOW we can have an historical/genetic/environmental/etc discussion .....and even involve the texas form and speculate why the difference in adaptations occurred......and as i say to mrs. baker(my wife).....in a polite/peacful/productive manner.....OLO...how bout the georgia population....was up WIT THEM?????