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Northern Crescent Perhaps? - Phyciodes - male
Copyright © 2010 Jeanne Steele

Northern Crescent Perhaps? - Phyciodes - Male
Shoe Factory Woods, Cook County, Illinois, USA
July 10, 2010
Size: 1"
Orange antenna tips... Which I love because if I had antenna they would totally be orange too! LOL What do you guys think? Do I have it right?
Contributed by Jeanne Steele on 10 July, 2010 - 11:12pm
Last updated 6 October, 2010 - 7:26pm

Moved
Moved from Crescents.
… David J. Ferguson, 6 October, 2010 - 7:07pm

Moved
Moved from Butterflies (excluding skippers).
… David J. Ferguson, 29 July, 2010 - 12:30pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… john and jane balaban, 27 July, 2010 - 10:30pm

I'm getting notorious for calling suspected Northerns as Pearls,
but I got'a say, this looks like a typical male Pearl Crescent to me. I'm not sure where the males quit having orange tips as you move eastward, but in the west they often have them, and in some areas they always have them. I would suspect that Northerns are not really found in Illinois at all, it's just not the right sort of place for them.
… David J. Ferguson, 13 July, 2010 - 1:04am

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