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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Brush-footed Butterflies (Nymphalidae) » Crescents, Checkerspots, Anglewings, etc. (Nymphalinae) » Melitaeini » Crescents (Phyciodes) » Tawny Crescent - Hodges#4482 (Phyciodes batesii)
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Checkerspot of some sort? - Phyciodes batesii - female
Copyright © 2009 John & Barbara Moerk

Checkerspot of some sort? - Phyciodes batesii - Female
Custer State Park, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
August 21, 2009
A little beat up and image is fuzzy, but would like id.
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Contributed by John & Barbara Moerk on 15 September, 2009 - 4:36pm
Last updated 26 October, 2014 - 5:43pm

Moved
Moved from Crescents.
… David J. Ferguson, 10 October, 2009 - 5:10pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Jason D. Roberts, 10 October, 2009 - 12:40pm login or register to post comments

tough call
Phyciodes can be difficult. Where this was taken there are four species. It is a female, and from just the upper side it can be very difficult to identify them. To me it doesn't look like P. cocyta nor P. tharos (but could be either, just not average). It could pass as P. pulchella pretty easily, but what it looks the most like to me is P. batesii ssp. lakota.

You can compare at Butterflies of America.
… David J. Ferguson, 15 September, 2009 - 11:50pm login or register to post comments

Perl Crescent, Phyciodes tharos
From the image, I was sure that it was our western Field Crescent, but in SD it has to be the Pearl
… margarethe brummermann, 15 September, 2009 - 5:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Pearly Crescent
According to Audubon book, Field Crescent can range down into Kansas. So I suppose it could be either.
… John & Barbara Moerk, 15 September, 2009 - 10:20pm login or register to post comments

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