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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Metalmarks (Riodinidae) » Riodininae » Emesidini » Apodemia » Ares Metalmark - Hodges#4400 (Apodemia ares)
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Metalmark, Arizona - Apodemia ares - female
Copyright © 2008 David Bygott

Metalmark, Arizona - Apodemia ares - Female
Fort Huachuca, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
August 23, 2008
Size: c. 30mm
At flowers by roadside, about 4000', in Garden Canyon. Is this an Ares Metalmark?
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Contributed by David Bygott on 24 August, 2008 - 9:29am
Last updated 10 November, 2011 - 8:56pm

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Moved from Butterflies.
… David J. Ferguson, 23 November, 2008 - 2:56am login or register to post comments

I agree with E. ares -
fits the photo of a female specimen at Nearctica ; also known from the Huachucas (Bailowitz & Brock. 1991. Butterflies of Southeastern Arizona).
See also photos of females, incl. from Cochise County, at MariposasMexicanas .
… Hartmut Wisch, 24 August, 2008 - 11:13am login or register to post comments

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