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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Skippers (Hesperiidae) » Spread-wing Skippers (Pyrginae) » Erynnini » Duskywings (Erynnis) » Mournful Duskywing - Hodges#3953 (Erynnis tristis)
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Which Duskywing BF ? - Erynnis tristis - male
Copyright © 2008 Robert L. Pearson

Which Duskywing BF ? - Erynnis tristis - Male
Skull Valley, (WSW of Prescott 10 miles), Yavapai County, Arizona, USA
August 26, 2007

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Which Duskywing BF ? - Erynnis tristis - male Which Duskywing BF ? - Erynnis tristis - male
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Contributed by Robert L. Pearson on 24 February, 2008 - 7:56pm
Last updated 12 May, 2013 - 7:52pm

Moved
Moved from Duskywings.
… David J. Ferguson, 12 May, 2013 - 12:48am login or register to post comments

Funereal?
Looks like a Funereal Duskywing to me. See page: http://bugguide.net/node/view/31863/bgimage
… Brenda Van Ryswyk, 25 February, 2008 - 12:02pm login or register to post comments

 
Mournful or Funeral was my quandry???
I don't know their range or key characteristics to be able to sort them out!
… Robert L. Pearson, 25 February, 2008 - 12:57pm login or register to post comments

 
Host plant?
Ah good point, forgot about the other. Not sure I can tell them apart.

Do you know the habitat and any host plants nearby? That may help to quote "In SoCal at least, Mournful are found around oak, while Funereal are in more grassy areas and typically on deerweed."

And again here.
… Brenda Van Ryswyk, 25 February, 2008 - 3:58pm login or register to post comments

 
deerweed
Kearney & Peebles "Arizona Flora" has no listing of Lotus scoparias or "Deerweed". SE AZ has some Oak savanna habitats so I'd bet both Mournful & Funereal Duskywings may occur. I need to check Walsh's work in SE AZ. We have Quercus turbinella & Q. emoryi locally, especially the former.
… Robert L. Pearson, 25 February, 2008 - 8:41pm login or register to post comments

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