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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 » Patches, Checkerspots (Chlosyne) » Silvery Checkerspot - Hodges#4490 (Chlosyne nycteis)
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Orange Butter - Chlosyne nycteis
Copyright © 2006 Jonathan Burishkin

Orange Butter - Chlosyne nycteis
Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA
April 27, 2006
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Contributed by Jonathan Burishkin on 29 April, 2006 - 5:09pm
Last updated 6 December, 2006 - 7:43pm

Moved
Moved from Phyciodes.
… A.W. Thomas, 6 December, 2006 - 7:43pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Butterflies.
… john and jane balaban, 2 December, 2006 - 7:24pm login or register to post comments

I think
It looks more like a Silvery Checkerspot. Not the yellow spot in the forwing margins and the black encircled yellow spot on the rearwing.
… Lois Stacey, 30 April, 2006 - 8:00pm login or register to post comments

Phyciodes
Some kind of Crescent?
… Peter Hollinger, 29 April, 2006 - 6:27pm login or register to post comments

 
I think it
looks most similar to the "Northern Crescent (Phyciodes cocyta)"
what do you all think?
… Jonathan Burishkin, 29 April, 2006 - 7:08pm login or register to post comments

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