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Species Phyciodes pulchella - Field Crescent - Hodges#4482.1

Crescent - Phyciodes orseis - Phyciodes pulchella - female

Field Crescent - Phyciodes pulchella

Field Crescent - Phyciodes pulchella

Phyciodes pulchella

Field Crescent Butterfly - Phyciodes pulchella

Field Crescent - Phyciodes pulchella

Field Crescent with hitchhiker - Phyciodes pulchella

Crescent species? - Phyciodes pulchella

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Papilionoidea (Butterflies and Skippers)

Family Nymphalidae (Brush-footed Butterflies)

Subfamily Nymphalinae (Crescents, Checkerspots, Anglewings, etc.)

Tribe Melitaeini

Genus Phyciodes (Crescents)

Species pulchella (Field Crescent - Hodges#4482.1)

Hodges Number

4482.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Phyciodes campestris

Phyciodes pratensis

plus 6 other synonyms listed at All-Leps

The lectotype designation of pulchella by Emmel et al (1998) displaces pratensis (Behr, 1863). [Opler and Warren PDF doc]

BugGuide follows the classification of Opler and Warren and All-Leps in calling this species P. pulchella (see discussion in Taxonomy Forum)

see also discussion in BOA.

Explanation of Names

Phyciodes pulchella (Boisduval, 1852)

Numbers

3 subspecies listed at All-Leps: camillus, montana, pulchella

Range

w NA (CA-NM-AB-BC) - Map (MPG)

Print References

Emmel, J.F., T.C. Emmel, and S.O. Mattoon. 1998. The types of butterflies named by Jean Alphonse Boisduval: designation of lectotypes and a neotype, and fixation of type localities. pp. 3-76 in: Emmel, T.C., editor. 1998. Systematics of Western North American Butterflies. Mariposa Press, Gainesville, Florida. 878 pp.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - MPG

Butterflies of America - BOA

species account [listed as P. pratensis] (Butterflies of Canada, CBIF)

Contributed by tom murray on 18 July, 2005 - 10:35pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Robin McLeod, Mike Quinn
Last updated 2 July, 2017 - 7:46am

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