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Pearl Crescent - Phyciodes tharos - male

Pearl Crescent - Phyciodes tharos - Male
Ft Myers, Lee County, Florida, USA
June 24, 2010
Sunning on butterfly weed Asclepias tuberosa. According to my Florida field guide, the fine black lines and lack of dorsal cream postmedian forewing band differentiate this from the Phaon Crescent, Phyciodes phaon.

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