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Desert Orangetip, Anthocharis cethura pima - Anthocharis cethura - male

Desert Orangetip, Anthocharis cethura pima - Anthocharis cethura - Male
Draper, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Size: 1 inch wingspan
T. Stout extracted ova 03/15/03 2 miles north of Utah Highway 18, Washington County, Utah for Dna studies on Orangetips. That is in desert country. This butterfly has been in diapause (hibernation) 3 years. Another one just broke diapause after 9 years in diapause.

Need help with putting these in the right place.

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Desert Orangetip, Anthocharis cethura pima - Anthocharis cethura - male Desert Orangetip, Anthocharis cethura pima - Anthocharis cethura - male

Patrick made the species page for these
would it be appropriate for him to place them on a subspecies page?

 
On it
I was about to do that!
I did the subfamilies for Pieridae while I was at it. Then to sleep!

Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina

 
A. cethura pima, Desert Orangetip
Thanks, you guys. I need to learn how to do that. Amazing little guys, huh. Just waiting around for a few drops of rain so they can get to be an adult for a few weeks. I have the pupae development photos, too. Now you have them in the right place, I can just add those, right. Or do they have to go in a pupa page?

 
Put on species page
Put the pupal development photos on the page for the species (or subspecies in this case). There is a checkbox to indicated immature, which would be anything but an imago, I guess.

Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina

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