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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Brush-footed Butterflies (Nymphalidae) » Crescents, Checkerspots, Anglewings, etc. (Nymphalinae) » Melitaeini » Crescents (Phyciodes) » Mimic Crescent (Phyciodes incognitus)
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unknown crescent - Phyciodes incognitus - male
Copyright © 2010 Rikki Hall

unknown crescent - Phyciodes incognitus - Male
Hazel Creek, Great Smoky Mts NP, Southern Appalachians, Swain County, North Carolina, USA
July 19, 2010

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Contributed by Rikki Hall on 26 July, 2010 - 2:37pm
Last updated 6 February, 2014 - 8:26am

Moved
Moved from Butterflies (excluding skippers).
… David J. Ferguson, 25 August, 2010 - 12:04am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… john and jane balaban, 3 August, 2010 - 11:20am login or register to post comments

Appalachian Crescents I don't know well,
and my eyes see something very very close to P. tharos. However, this matches up very well with photos and descriptions of Phyciodes [cocyta] incognitus, and the orange antenna clubs are a good indicator that this is what it is.

The name is treated by many as a subspecies of P. cocyta, but it was posted on BugGuide as a full species.

There are more photos of this "species" to look at here. There are no photos of the underside of summer brood males on that web site, and I expect that is why the coloring of the under side is brighter and "smoother" on yours (just as between different broods of P. tharos and certain other related species). There is another here.
… David J. Ferguson, 26 July, 2010 - 4:38pm login or register to post comments

This looks most like a pearl
This looks most like a pearl crescent, but it seemed different from the ones commonly seen in the valley: more colorful underwing, very yellow, more prone to holding wings upright and opening and closing them, good amount of orange on the antenna.
… Rikki Hall, 26 July, 2010 - 3:08pm login or register to post comments

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