Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar

TaxonomyBrowseInfoImagesLinksBooksData
Photo#921778
Is this a Cloudywing (genus Thorybes), perhaps Northern Cloudywing - Thorybes pylades?  - Thorybes pylades

Is this a Cloudywing (genus Thorybes), perhaps Northern Cloudywing - Thorybes pylades? - Thorybes pylades
Huntsville , Madison County, Alabama, USA
May 16, 2014
Found on a rocky path near a cedar glade. Saw a few times puddling on some sort of animal dung. I looked up several resources. One:
http://www.naba.org/chapters/nabanj/butterflies/southern_cloudywing.html
Was helpful in particular. The white line curving over the line is interrupted in what I found as it is with Northern Cloudywing. Though hard to see, I couldn't see a a pale patch at bend of antennal tip that is found in Southern. The forewing spots on this butterfly seem smaller than the spots I have seen on photographs of Southern.

Images of this individual: tag all
Is this a Cloudywing (genus Thorybes), perhaps Northern Cloudywing - Thorybes pylades?  - Thorybes pylades Is this a Cloudywing (genus Thorybes), perhaps Northern Cloudywing - Thorybes pylades?  - Thorybes pylades

Moved
Moved from Cloudywings.

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

Comment viewing options
Select your preferred way to display the comments and click 'Save settings' to activate your changes.