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Butterfly Species - Cercyonis sthenele

Butterfly Species - Cercyonis sthenele
Glacier County, Montana, USA
July 26, 2020

Wood-Nymph - Moved
The VHW pm line indented near the middle (Going in from the tiny eyespot in the sub-terminal area somewhat near the anal angle).

Moved from Alpines, Arctics, Nymphs and Satyrs.

 
Wood Nymph
Roy could this be a Common Wood Nymph both FW spots seem to be the same size/Kye

 
A difficult call
AUTOMATIC:

I understand what you are saying and I looked very hard at this one.

That is why I included the statement above back in Nov. describing your specimen:

"The VHW pm line indented near the middle (Going in from the tiny eyespot in the sub-terminal area somewhat near the anal angle)."

Regarding the FW spots,
Glassberg(1), p. 256
Cercyonis sthenele - Great Basin Wood-Nymph:
"bottom spot smaller or equal in size to top spot".

As you say, both FW spots seem to be the same size.

If you haven't already, it may help to look at the ventral HW PM line on a full size computer monitor. The PM line looks indented where Glassberg describes / points.

I would rather err on the conservative side. Misplacements only serve to confuse people down the line. The solution may be to move it to genus. I think we both agree it is Cercyonis.

 
Cercyonis
Roy

Thanks for helpful insight/KYE

Moved for further review.
Moved from ID Request.

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