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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) » Mylitta Crescent - Hodges#4488 (Phyciodes mylitta)
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Mylitta Crescent (?) - Phyciodes mylitta
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Mylitta Crescent (?) - Phyciodes mylitta
Sailor Bar, Fair Oaks, Sacramento County, California, USA
October 20, 2015
Size: 3/4 inch (?)
Based on research in Butterflies Through Binoculars of the West by Jeffrey Glasberg, the open-wing pose, field marks and the range in Glassberg's field guide seems to favor it being Mylitta Crescent. I am attaching a closed-wing pose of the same individual to help support my tentative identification of this butterfly.

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Mylitta Crescent (?) - Phyciodes mylitta Mylitta Crescent (?) - Phyciodes mylitta
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Contributed by davedlj on 28 January, 2017 - 1:49am
Last updated 29 January, 2017 - 2:09am

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