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Pearl Crescent Butterfly - Phyciodes tharos
Copyright © 2007 jim taylor

Pearl Crescent Butterfly - Phyciodes tharos
up-state, South Carolina, USA
September 6, 2007
Size: ~3/4 inch
don't know which one..really no pearls.

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Pearl Crescent Butterfly - Phyciodes tharos Pearl Crescent Butterfly - Phyciodes tharos
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Contributed by jim taylor on 6 November, 2007 - 10:36pm
Last updated 27 November, 2007 - 3:08pm

check out this link
Hi again Jim, not sure if you looked at this one yet, but this link will take you to a set of photos that shows the wide variations in pearls--personally, I think your specimen looks like the top left one.
Nina
… Nina, 7 November, 2007 - 6:53pm login or register to post comments

Probably a pearl crescent.-Ni
Probably a pearl crescent.-Nina
… Nina, 7 November, 2007 - 6:34am login or register to post comments

 
BTW, your other likely option
BTW, your other likely options are mimic or northern... but based on Kaufman's field guide and info here on BG, I still think it's a pearl.
… Nina, 7 November, 2007 - 10:59am login or register to post comments

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