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Northern Crescent or Pearl Crescent? - Phyciodes - male
Copyright © 2014 Lennox Saunders

Northern Crescent or Pearl Crescent? - Phyciodes - Male
Mayfair, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
September 6, 2014
This is the only view I could get of the wings before the butterfly disappeared. I know the Northern Crescent has orange tips to the antennae so I'm guessing it's identity from that feature. Found in a city garden.
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Contributed by Lennox Saunders on 22 September, 2014 - 9:37pm
Last updated 13 September, 2015 - 5:22pm

Northern crescent
The wing shape pulled back suggests northern. The brown spot on the hindwing in this photograph is smudgy and the right amber color for Northern. And the antennal clubs have substantial orange. Also, the tips of the wings are open and pale. And it was in Canada.
… 5, 18 July, 2018 - 2:43pm login or register to post comments

this is a male
pattern looks like P. thoros more to me, but there are orange antenna tips. September date is really late for P. cocyta.

Moved from Northern Crescent.
… David J. Ferguson, 13 September, 2015 - 5:20pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Crescents.
… Cliff Ivy, 16 February, 2015 - 9:46pm login or register to post comments

Northern Crescent male
… Cliff Ivy, 16 February, 2015 - 9:44pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Butterflies (excluding skippers).
… John S. Ascher, 23 October, 2014 - 6:58am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… john and jane balaban, 17 October, 2014 - 10:32pm login or register to post comments

Looks like Pearl Crescent, female
with strong brown reticulations of HW but at edge of northern range which favors Northern Crescent ID.
… Cliff Ivy, 23 September, 2014 - 10:28am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks. Those are both good p
Thanks. Those are both good pointers which I'll use in the future.
… Lennox Saunders, 23 September, 2014 - 12:03pm login or register to post comments

I'm leaning toward
Northern. But that's just a guess.
… Nikole Loomis (Bush Cricket and Buckeye Lover), 23 September, 2014 - 7:04am login or register to post comments

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