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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 » Crescents (Phyciodes) » Field Crescent - Hodges#4482.1 (Phyciodes pulchella)
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Field Crescent - Phyciodes pulchella - female
Copyright © 2016 Steven Mlodinow

Field Crescent - Phyciodes pulchella - Female
Rabbit Mountain, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
June 29, 2014
Photographed at about 6000 feet in open grasslands with scattered rabbitbrush. The orange tip to the antennae clubs would seem to eliminate this species, but the underwing pattern seems to only fit this species... I am probably wrong here in some fashion.

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Contributed by Steven Mlodinow on 1 April, 2016 - 4:13pm
Last updated 5 April, 2016 - 4:21pm

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Moved from ID Request.
… Cliff Ivy, 3 April, 2016 - 11:50am login or register to post comments

Steven, you are correct on the ID
The guides are apparently misleading in regard to the antennal clubs.
In "Butterflies of America" most specimens show a dark club with an orange tip http://butterfliesofamerica.com/t/Phyciodes_pulchella_a.htm.
Your subspecies is camillus which shows an orange tip with live image examples.
… Cliff Ivy, 3 April, 2016 - 11:42am login or register to post comments

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