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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Metalmarks (Riodinidae) » Riodininae » Emesidini » Apodemia » Mormon Metalmark - Hodges#4402 (Apodemia mormo) » Apodemia mormo autumnalis
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Butterfly - Apodemia mormo - female
Copyright © 2015 Cody R. Hough

Butterfly - Apodemia mormo - Female
Dewey, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA
September 14, 2015
Found moving between bushes at night.
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Contributed by Cody R. Hough on 27 September, 2015 - 1:13am
Last updated 17 December, 2017 - 5:37pm

specimens in Yavapai County
are generally referred to subspecies autumnalis (as are those from most of the interior Southwest). Whether they are identical to those in Clark County Nevada (the type locality) is debatable though. "Typical" subspecies mormo as found further north isn't very different either (at least not in the broad sense that it is usually recognized). There is an unnamed isolated population high in the Chiricahua Mountains that is often very black on the upper surface (even the front wings) that is probably something worthy of naming, and some specimens from along the Mogollon Rim in Yavapai and Gila Counties can be similarly very dark.

Moved from Apodemia.
… David J. Ferguson, 17 December, 2017 - 5:37pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Apodemia.
… John S. Ascher, 27 September, 2015 - 4:05am login or register to post comments

Apodemia
mormo complex

cf. atypical A. mormo autumnalis and A. nova-unnamed.

these two forms may require further attention from the experts
… John S. Ascher, 27 September, 2015 - 1:53am login or register to post comments

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