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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 » Patches, Checkerspots (Chlosyne) » Hoffmann's Checkerspot - Hodges#4497 (Chlosyne hoffmanni)
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Butterfly species? - Chlosyne hoffmanni
Copyright © 2018 davedlj

Butterfly species? - Chlosyne hoffmanni
Ice House Road, El Dorado County, California, USA
July 17, 2018
Size: 2/3 inch
While driving east on Ice House Road toward Wright's Lake I saw an area with a good variety of wildflowers so I stopped my RAV4 and decided to see what type of butterflies might be found. The images that I post here are what I feel are Hoffman's Checkerspot but I could be wrong. It was one of the smaller butterflies visiting the flowers at this location.

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Contributed by davedlj on 19 July, 2018 - 1:49pm
Last updated 10 August, 2018 - 10:26am

Moved
Moved from Butterflies and Skippers.
… Ken Allison, 10 August, 2018 - 10:26am login or register to post comments

Checkerspot
It's a checkerspot, genus Chlosyne, but you have a bewildering variety of similar species in your area. A local expert's input will be needed for species identification.
… Ken Allison, 20 July, 2018 - 6:07am login or register to post comments

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