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Orange Sulphur - Hodges#4210 (Colias eurytheme)
Photo#555526
Copyright © 2011
Andrew Meeds
Sulfur -
Colias eurytheme
-
Ledges State Park, Boone County, Iowa, USA
July 31, 2011
gathering_2011
Colias philodice? This was hanging around with lots of P. rapae
Contributed by
Andrew Meeds
on 31 July, 2011 - 10:39pm
Last updated 6 August, 2011 - 8:21am
Moved
Moved from
Colias
.
…
Andrew Meeds
, 6 August, 2011 - 8:21am
Looks like a male Orange Sulphur (Colias eurytheme)
Based on the size/shape of the black band along the outer margin showing through from above.
…
Kelly Fiegle
, 6 August, 2011 - 7:04am
Hard to Say
If I'd seen it down here, I'd say
C. eurytheme
but outside my fauna it's too close to call. Where both exist, there can hybridize. Betros probably knows them better.
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Robert Lord Zimlich
, 2 August, 2011 - 1:03pm