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Juvenal's Duskywing - Erynnis juvenalis - female

Juvenal's Duskywing - Erynnis juvenalis - Female
Vero Beach, Indian River County, Florida, USA
March 10, 2006

Actually ...
Actually, it looks more like a female Juvenal's to me. Notice on the forewing, beside the large upper pale patch, that there is a broken row of small white markings going downward from the costal wing margin. On horatius, there are only 6 of these smaller pale white markings in the row, because the bottom 2 are completely darkened. However, juvenalis has 8 or 9 with the bottom 2 always being at least partially pale white as seen in your picture. Now compare to this picture of a horatius
where only 6 pale white spots are in the row - 4 from the costal wing margin and 2 slightly lower. Notice the bottom 2 would-be pale spots are completely darkened (or sometimes absent in the male). These can be tricky to ID, but this is one way that I've always understood as a means to distinguish these two species. Hope that helps.

 
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Makes sense to me. I just do mosquitoes.
-Sean McCann


triatoma.blogspot.com

 
By the way ...
By the way, I just wanted to add, that is a fantastic photo. What camera and lens do you use?

 
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That was taken with a Nikon Coolpix 5400 on the automated macro setting (most of my focusing is done with the LCD at weird angles, so I let the camera decide. This Nikon, while old and slow, also had the nice feature of indicating focus, so there is a little red target appearing where the focus point is. Coupled with the tilting/rotating LCD, that makes for easy insect shots.)

-Sean McCann


triatoma.blogspot.com

moved
to sp. page

These duskywings are tricky,
but this is a very close match for Horace's duskywing, Erynnis horatius, female, in Butterflies through Binoculars(1).

 
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I was thinking Horace's as well. Shall I move it to the species page?
-Sean McCann


triatoma.blogspot.com

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