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Anglewing - Polygonia comma
Copyright © 2007 Elliotte Rusty Harold

Anglewing - Polygonia comma
West Hampton, Suffolk County, New York, USA
July 8, 2007
Question Mark or Comma?
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Contributed by Elliotte Rusty Harold on 10 July, 2007 - 7:14am
Last updated 22 July, 2007 - 11:07pm

Comma
The question marks have an extra mark on the upper forewing, and in this case we can see through to the top side and the extra mark is missing. On the left side of the forewing there are two round, black spots and a wedge-shaped black spot. On Question Marks there would be another hyphen-shaped mark by the top black, round spot. It would be almost between the top black circle and the black wedge shape.

And it looks like it has enough color underneath to be an eastern commma.
… Mo Whalen, 10 July, 2007 - 9:10pm login or register to post comments

Hard To Tell
....But it looks like a comma mark on the outside of it's wing. If that's not a light dot near it, then it would be an Eastern Comma Butterfly, I'd say.
… Kenneth Dwain Harrelson, 10 July, 2007 - 3:34pm login or register to post comments

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